I used to know the story, but I forgot it a long time ago!!! I know that the bad dreams get caught in it!! But wasn't there more to that story? What happens to the good dreams??
2007-04-06 20:14:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
The Dreamcatcher is a woven spiral web of stretched rawhide on a willow branch circle. There are feathers with down attached to the web. A successful Good dream will find its way to the center and come to you during the night. Good dreams that find your dreamcatcher but cannot come to you because you are already dreaming hide in the down of the feathers. Bad dreams get caught in the spiral web and immobilized. When the sun comes up the bad dreams are burned away, but the good dreams are protected by the down to come to you the next night.
2007-04-06 23:04:49 · answer #1 · answered by Terry 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dreams have always had many meaning to Native Americans and one of the old traditions was to hang a dream catcher in their homes. They believe that the night air is filled with dreams both good and bad. The dream catcher, when hung, moves freely in the air and catches the dreams as they float by. The good dreams know the way and slip through the center hole and slide down off the soft feather so gently the sleeper below sometimes hardly knows he is dreaming. The bad dreams, not knowing the way, get entangled in the webbing and perish with the first light of the new day. It was traditional to put a feather in the center of the dream catcher; it means breath, or air. It is essential for life. A baby watching the air playing with the feather on her cradleboard was entertained while also being given a lesson on the importance of good air. This lesson comes forward in the way that the feather of the owl is kept for wisdom (a woman's feather) and the eagle feather is kept for courage (a man's feather). This is not to say that the use of each is restricted by gender, but that to use the feather each is aware of the gender properties she/he is invoking. Indian people, in general, are very specific about gender roles and identity. The woven dream catchers of adults do not use feathers.
2016-05-19 02:27:19 · answer #2 · answered by gladis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The good dreams escape through the little hole in the center and go into your head for you to dream!!!
2007-04-06 20:19:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i was told ur suppose to once a month either run cold water over it or leave it out in the wind for a day to blow away all the bad dreams....thats what someone told me
2007-04-06 21:14:40 · answer #4 · answered by allisse b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋