what is the difference between a dream catcher and a wind chime, and what is there purpose?

Answer 1

a dream catches is supposed to catch your nightmares if hung over your bed, a wind chime makes noise in the wind.... the names pretty much explain it

Answer 2

Wind Chime

Answer 3

A dream catcher catches your bad dreams and lets the good dreams through. It is worthwhile making your own. They are cheap enough. Traditionally a wind chime alerts you to when a spirit is nearby as it has conections to the wind. Different variations of wind chimes are a good investment if you believe in them.

Answer 4

A dream catcher catches bad dreams, a wind chime is just for fun

Answer 5

Dream catcher is a native American net u hang over your bed to catch bad dreams to stop them entering your head. A wind chime is a set of metal or wooden polls hung in a mobile fashion to catch the wind to make a tingling noise.

Answer 6

A dream catcher has more superstitious aspects to it. It is I believe a Native American craft that you hang at the head of your bed, so that the dream catcher will catch bad dreams for you. Wind chimes are just ornamental, and nice to listen to.

Answer 7

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.

The wind chime has many fathers. In asia they are made of bamboo cut for tone and may be placed in front of or to each side of a spirit wall. In the South Pacific the may be made of bone or shells and hung outside the door of a Hut.

Answer 8

Wind chimes create a pleasant atmosphere auditorially and dream catchers are supposed to catch bad dreams.

Answer 9

A dream catcher is native american and is to be hung near where you sleep, it catches bad dreams, and gives you a restful and safe nights sleep. I found one at 5am once in lashing rain and it was completely dry including its label. I felt it was a sign that all my dreams would come true.

A wind chime is to be placed near a door or window or lovely in the garden. They create a transcendental sound that harmonises the athmosphere. In morocco bells and chimes dispel evil spirits.

Answer 10

Traditionally, the Ojibwa tribe hung a dreamcatcher above the bed, used as a charm to protect sleeping children from nightmares. The Ojibwa believe that a dreamcatcher filters a person's dreams. Only good dreams would be allowed to filter through . . . Bad dreams would stay in the net, disappearing with the light of day.


Wind chimes are thought to be good luck in parts of Asia and are used in Feng Shui. In Japan they produce pleasant ringing sounds and are hung by the windows during hot humid summers in order to bring cooling relief.