Dream Catchers

poster yourself poster yourself poster yourself poster yourself Dream catchers are one of the most fascinating traditions of Native Americans. The traditional dream catcher was intended to protect the sleeping individual from negative dreams, while letting positive dreams through. The positive dreams would slip through the hole in the center of the dream catcher, and glide down the feathers to the sleeping person below. The negative dreams would get caught up in the web, and expire when the first rays of the sun struck them. The dream catcher has been a part of Native American culture for generations. One element of Native American dream catcher relates to the tradition of the hoop. Some Native Americans of North America held the hoop in the highest esteem, because it symbolized strength and unity. Many symbols started around the hoop, and one of these symbols is the dream catcher. [Taken from www.dream-catchers.org] *scrolls poster yourself poster yourself Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. -unkown The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. - unkown Dreams are pure thought, an opportunity to discover yourself. - unknown I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride. - Alfred Bunn Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. - H. F. Hedge It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ~John Steinbeck Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends. - unknown A dream is an answer to a question we haven’t yet learned how to ask. - unknown