How does it work?
2007-06-21 15:01:08 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
i think you have to warm it up by playing catch with it first.
2007-06-21 15:04:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a myth of ancient Native Americans....
Traditionally, the Ojibwa construct dreamcatchers by tying sinew strands in a web around a small round or tear-shaped frame (in a way roughly similar to their method for making snowshoe webbing). The resulting "dream-catcher", hung above the bed, is then used as a charm to protect sleeping children from nightmares.
The Ojibwa believe that a dreamcatcher filters a person's dreams. According to Terri J. Andrews in the article "Legend of the Dream Catcher," about the Ojibwa nation in the magazine World & I, Nov. 1998 page 204, "Only good dreams would be allowed to filter through . . . Bad dreams would stay in the net, disappearing with the light of day." Hence, a dreamcatcher could potentially protect its user from dangerous, dreamborne curses like sewan mnana.
Another legend (Lakota), according to St. Joseph's Indian School in Chamberlain, South Dakota, "Good dreams pass through the center hole to the sleeping person. The bad dreams are trapped in the web, where they perish in the light of dawn."
2007-06-21 15:06:54 · answer #2 · answered by ♥♥The Queen Has Spoken♥♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It a Dreamcatcher. So, you hang it above your bed over your head. At night when you Dream it will catch your dreams. Bad dreams are caught in the web and burned up by the sun. Good dreams trickle down the Feathers and drip back into your head.
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Fear-provoking dreams are captured in the dreamcatcher's web where they are held and burned away like the dew by the first light of day. Benevolent dreams flow through the hole (s) and are guided by hanging tassels or feathers to gently deliver messages of guidance and wisdom to the sleeping ones.
2007-06-21 15:04:43 · answer #3 · answered by ll 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It goes above your bed and the good dreams go through the netting and the bad dreams get caught in the netting.
2007-06-21 15:03:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's suppose to keep nightmares from reoccurring so you don't have the same nightmare over and over again.
Mine works most the time, I have a hot pink one that hangs from my ceiling. It's been there for almost 5 years. ^_^
2007-06-21 15:05:03 · answer #5 · answered by Becky<3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A dream catcher is supposed to catch all your bad dreams(aka, nightmares) and keep them from bugging you and from comming back.
2007-06-21 15:05:53 · answer #6 · answered by Cecilia ♡ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just put it beside your bed, it is said to catch dreams.
2007-06-21 15:04:25 · answer #7 · answered by aimee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, you go to sleep. Did you remember to do that part?
2007-06-21 15:03:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it has to be hanging above the bed...not hanging from the wall, so that it can move freely.
2007-06-21 16:42:46 · answer #9 · answered by pirate00girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your supposed to wish on it....it catches your dreams and protects you
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2007-06-21 15:03:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋