What is a dream catcher?

Dreamcatchers came from the Native Americans. I actually made a dreamcatcher a week ago. It is something that can trap all the nightmares or the bad dreams in the web and it can only let the sweet dreams pass. So you'll have sweet dreams every night. It is placed at the top of your bead or on your headboard so every night, it can filter the bad from the good dreams.

Red Indians have it, you can buy one or better make one yourself. We use it to catch the "bad" dreams. Personally I don't need it, I don't care about bad dreams, prefer to understand them and work with them. Haven't had bad dreams since years and if I dream I wake up, write it down and go back to bed or think it over if I can't sleep anymore. Dreams make a lot wiser about what is going on (with others or oneself).

It's a superstitious item from American Indian culture. The idea is that you hang it over your bed at night and it "catches" nightmares floating in the air waiting to invade your dreams, thus preventing nightmares and helping you to sleep better at night. I've got a few dreamcatchers, and I think they're really pretty. But in my honest and perhaps overly cynical and rational opinion, they're no good at preventing nightmares. I should know. I tried them out.

I just read about it at "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcatcher" and it says at the first paragraph under the headline "Origin" that the dreamcatcher is being considered by many people to a symbol to unity among the varius indian nations , and as a symbol of identification with the native american cultures. At the third paragraph under the headline "Origin" you can read that the dreamcatcher is used as a charm to protect children from nightmares. It is supposed to dry out and collaps as the child gets to the "age of wonderment". At the fourth paragraph under the headline "Origin" you can read that the Sioux believe that the dreamcatcher changes the person's dream. Someone is quoted at that paragraph saying that only the good dreams pass the net of the dream catcher and the bad dreams are trapped at the net , and fade away by daylight...the good dreams are dropped down on the dreamer through the feathers on the dream-catcher...

One who comes in your dreams... :-)