I noticed that sometimes when trying to open doors that it would make the sound of shutting the door and I would have to open the door again.

But just recently discovered that the opposite happens also when I ran into an open building but couldn't pick up items inside. To see where my character was stuck I dropped my T-shirt and noticed it was by the open front door and wondered why my character would get stuck there so I tried to close the door and re-open it (it took 2 attempts to close the door). Once I had done that I could pick up the item without any problem.