Dream catchers ? How do they work?

Answer 1

They don't. They just look pretty.

Answer 2

They work by catching all the bad dreams you have. All you have to do it hang it next to you or above where you sleep. Then every night if you have a bad dream the dream catcher cathes all the bad dreams and keeps them. It never lets any of those bad dresm get out. So all you have is good dreams.

Answer 3

Dream Catchers- You put them on the wall that the head of your bed is at so when your sleeping, it is above your head up against the wall. In my people's tradition, (I am a Native American of the Mohegan tribe) the Dream Catcher is said to "catch" all of your nightmares in between the strings on the frame. Once the nightmares are "caught" then you wont have the nightmare again. It also helps protect you from nightmares. But once the nightmare is "caught" then you cant stick your fingers in between the strings, because you will "release" the nightmares, and they will come back to you. I think they really do work, but you have to have a little bit of faith and believe. =]

Answer 4

I don't know how they work but they do. When I was 6 I started having these really scary, grusome dreams about evil dogs eating me alive. For 2 years I had these dreams once or twice a week. Then at a summer workshop I went to I made one and the next night I had a dog dream but the dog was nice not homicidle. Since then I haven't had one dream about an evil dog. THEY DEFINATLEY WORK!!!

Answer 5

The original word for Dreamcatcher translates to Spider within the Ojibwa tribes. Generally they were used as dream filters, capturing the bad dreams and letting only the good dreams through. Basically they were made for children.

Answer 6

An ancient Chippewa traditon
The dream net has been made
For many generations
Where spirit dreams have played

Hung above the cradle board
Or in the lodge up high
The dream net catches bad dreams
While good dreams slip on by

Bad dreams become entangled
Among the sinew thread
Good dreams slip through the center hole
While you dream upon your bed

This is an ancient legend
Since dreams will never cease
Hang this dream net above your bed
Dream on and be at Peace


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Wondering what connection I could possibly have with Dream Catchers?

Well, I'm not Native American. I would be proud to be, but I'm just not. I have lived my entire life, however, in the Blue Mountains of Oregon, 20 miles from Chief Joseph's beloved Wallowas. I've always been surrounded by the beauty of these mountains, and the grace and wisdom of the Nez Pierce....

In the early 1980's, I discovered the Dream Catcher. So taken with this concept, I learned to make them myself, and gave one to every dream-troubled soul that crossed my path.

Age and other passions have now overtaken the time I once devoted to this craft, but the legend lives on, and what I'd like to share with you, is just that.



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The Legend of the Dreamcatcher


"A spider was quietly spinning his web in his own space. It was beside the sleeping space of Nokomis, the grandmother.

Each day, Nokomis watched the spider at work, quietly spinning away. One day as she was watching him, her grandson came in. "Nokomis-iya!" he shouted, glancing at the spider. He stomped over to the spider, picked up a shoe and went to hit it.

"No-keegwa," the old lady whispered, "don't hurt him."

"Nokomis, why do you protect the spider?" asked the little boy. The old lady smiled, but did not answer.

When the boy left, the spider went to the old woman and thanked her for saving his life. He said to her, "For many days you have watched me spin and weave my web. You have admired my work. In return for saving my life, I will give you a gift."

He smiled his special spider smile and moved away, spinning as he went. Soon the moon glistened on a magical silvery web moving gently in the window. "See how I spin?" he said. "See and learn, for each web will snare bad dreams. Only good dreams will go through the small hole. This is my gift to you. Use it so that only good dreams will be remembered. The bad dreams will become hopelessly entangled in the web."


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Sleep well sweet child
Don't worry your head
Your Dream Catcher is humming
Above your bed

Listen so softly
I know you can hear
The tone of beyond
Close to your ear

Love is alive
And living in you
Beyond all your troubles
Where good dreams are true

Answer 7

bedhead is wrong It works bye takeing that bad dream when its devopeing and it like a spider web it stick the bad dream and thats mostly it and it dose look pretty lol sweet dreams

Answer 8

They don't work unless you believe them to, they are used to capture your dreams so you can remember and control them.

Answer 9

If they worked, everyone would have 1. Or 2.

Answer 10

you're supposed to hang them over your bed, and then when you sleep they are supposed to catch bad dreams so you'll only have nice dreams ^^!

Answer 11

I don't know for sure. But I love them and I have them in every room of my home. I think they look lovely.