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- How to make a dream catcher yarn dream catcher. How to make a dream catcher yarn dream catcher.
- If you have used your dream catcher for a while you may not exactly want to just throw it in the trash as if you do this and it gets broken all the bad dreams and nightmares are released back into the world and will be able to effect other peoples dream as well as yours.
- As the sun's rays hit the dreamcatcher in the morning, all of the bad dreams will evaporate. Dreamcatchers became popular during the pan-Indian movement of the 1960s and 1970s as a symbol of.
A dream catcher is usually placed over a place you would sleep where the morning light can hit it. As you sleep all dreams from the spirit world have to pass through the dream catcher. Only good dreams can pass through to the dreamer while the bad dreams are caught in the webbing and are destroyed by the first rays of the morning light.
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Date: 2008-10-14
Country: United States
State: Indiana
Paranormal Category: Misc
Last year I started collecting dream catchers. I even take them outside and clean them out, silly, but true. I didn't have very many bad dreams after I got them, and last summer when I was troubled, I bought another one and hung it over my bed.
A week after this, I started waking up in the middle of the night to look at the dream catcher. It would move in my utterly still room and feathers would fall and I would sew them back. Once sewn back, those feathers didn't move again.
This catcher was pretty light but I kept it up with four tacks to keep it from spinning but I woke one night and the tacks started to drop and the dream catcher fell. I flipped on my lights and my other three hung vicariously from the ceiling and I fixed them. I wasn't having bad dreams, but bad consciousness. Every night his stupid thing would fall and I would put it back up.
Around this time I started getting interested in Wicca. I started collecting stones, rose quartz, smoky quartz, tigers eyes, agate, hematite, alexandrite, amethyst and carnelian. I had my own little altar and burned incense every night before I slept. When I started doing this the dream catchers stopped falling. I grew weary of doing this every night, as did my allergies, but kept the stones out and slept with turquoise necklace on and my dreams were peaceful unless I forgot it.
What does this mean, my dream catchers falling? Every so often, when I've had a troubled day, they will fall, and my necklace has been misplaced. What should I do?
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By 'full' I mean they have collected as much negative engery as they can possibly hold. I made my own catcher when I was young - it worked well for many years then out of the blue started falling off my wall. I had to really work at keeping it up there. Then one night I had a dream that it fell off them wall and 'split' some of the negative engery back out. The next day I laid it to rest and built a new one and never had an issue with it falling.
And as to washing them - one of the other comments said something that makes me wonder if it isn't getting full - when you wash them, unless you protect your home/space/person, what's to stop the negative engery from returning ontop of any new stuff. It may just be too much for that one (or all of them) to handle.
As much as you enjoy this hanger, perhaps it's done it's pupose and should be retired. Replace it by all means with a new one and see if things improve. Good Luck.
-bumblebee55
I do really believe in my dream catchers, but I don't know much about Native Americans, I know more about the power of nature through crystals and stones and herbs and flowers.
Confusing... Well, I might not be much help, but I was just reading a history about them, and it said the Lakota dream catcher would give you bad dreams and capture the good ones.
Other than that, I would have to agree with FRAWIN. There may be a ghost or demon messing with it.
Thanks 😁
Broken Dream Catcher
Can you tell me if you feel a connection with your dream catcher and the turquoise necklace? I ask this becasue turquoise is a very sacred stones to native amercians.
You sleep with your necklace on you feel really safe and protected and you catcher is fine I take it. When the necklace is taken of it dissappears and the catcher drops.
Have the stones changed colour in the neckalce since you bought it?
I would be interested to know.
Broken Dream Catcher Tattoo
FRAWIN 😐
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By 'full' I mean they have collected as much negative engery as they can possibly hold. I made my own catcher when I was young - it worked well for many years then out of the blue started falling off my wall. I had to really work at keeping it up there. Then one night I had a dream that it fell off them wall and 'split' some of the negative engery back out. The next day I laid it to rest and built a new one and never had an issue with it falling.
And as to washing them - one of the other comments said something that makes me wonder if it isn't getting full - when you wash them, unless you protect your home/space/person, what's to stop the negative engery from returning ontop of any new stuff. It may just be too much for that one (or all of them) to handle.
As much as you enjoy this hanger, perhaps it's done it's pupose and should be retired. Replace it by all means with a new one and see if things improve. Good Luck.
-bumblebee55
I do really believe in my dream catchers, but I don't know much about Native Americans, I know more about the power of nature through crystals and stones and herbs and flowers.
Confusing... Well, I might not be much help, but I was just reading a history about them, and it said the Lakota dream catcher would give you bad dreams and capture the good ones.
Other than that, I would have to agree with FRAWIN. There may be a ghost or demon messing with it.
Thanks 😁
Broken Dream Catcher
Can you tell me if you feel a connection with your dream catcher and the turquoise necklace? I ask this becasue turquoise is a very sacred stones to native amercians.
You sleep with your necklace on you feel really safe and protected and you catcher is fine I take it. When the necklace is taken of it dissappears and the catcher drops.
Have the stones changed colour in the neckalce since you bought it?
I would be interested to know.
Broken Dream Catcher Tattoo
FRAWIN 😐
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by K Shabi PUBLISHED 14 July 2016Spiritual Meaning Of Dream Catchers
What is the true meaning and history behind the Native American dreamcatcher? Where do dreamcatchers really come from? You've probably seen a dream catcher hanging from a tree, a porch or even in a souvenir gift shop and wondered about its purpose and meaning. Read on to learn more about the story, legend, and origins of authentic Native American dream catchers.
Authentic Native American Dream Catchers
Originally created by American Indians, dreamcatchers today come in a variety of different sizes and styles. They usually consist of a small wooden hoop covered in a net or web of natural fibers, with meaningful sacred items like feathers and beads attached, hanging down from the bottom of the hoop. Real authentic, traditional dream catchers are handmade and crafted only from all natural materials, in size measuring just a few small inches across. The hoop is traditionally constructed from a bent Red Willow branch covered in stretched sinews. Wrapping the frame in leather is another common finishing touch among 'real' dream catchers.
History of the Dreamcatcher: Ojibwe or Lakota Origins?
Today the dreamcatcher is associated with Native American culture in general, but dream catchers are often believed to have originated from the Ojibwa Chippewa tribe in particular. The Lakota tribe also has its own legend about the origins of the dreamcatcher, but most ethnographers believe the dreamcatchers were passed down from the Ojibwe through intermarriage and trade. The Ojibwe word for dreamcatcher asabikeshiinh actually means 'spider,' referring to the woven web loosely covering the hoop. The patterns of the dream catcher web are similar to the webbing these Native Americans also used for making snowshoes.
Ojibwa Legend: The story of the Dream catcher
Ancient legends about the history and origin of the dreamcatcher exist among several Native American tribes, but are most common and seem to originate among the Ojibwe and Lakota nations. While many cultures consider spiders to be creepy crawlers, the Ojibwe people saw them in a different light, as symbols of protection and comfort. According to an old Ojibwa legend, a mystical and maternal 'Spider Woman' once served as the spiritual protector for her tribe, especially in concern to young children, kids and babies. As the Ojibwe people flourished and spread out across the land, it was difficult for The Spider Woman to continue to protect and watch over all the members of the tribe as they migrated farther and farther away. This is why she created the first dreamcatcher. Following her example, over the course of generations mothers and grandmothers continued to ritualistically recreate the maternal keepsake as a means of mystically protecting their children and families even from a distance.
What do dream catchers do? Purpose & Meaning of the Dream Catcher
Sometimes referred to as 'Sacred Hoops,' Ojibwe dreamcatchers were traditionally used as talismans to protect sleeping people, usually children, from bad dreams and nightmares. This Native American tribe believes that the night air is filled with dreams, both good and bad. When hung above the bed in a place where the morning sunlight can hit it, the dream catcher attracts and catches all sorts of dreams and thoughts into its webs. Good dreams pass through and gently slide down the feathers to comfort the sleeper below. Bad dreams, however, are caught up in its protective net and destroyed, burned up in the light of day.
Dream Catcher Meaning: Web, Feathers & Beads
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All parts of the authentic Native American dreamcatcher have meaning tied to the natural world. The shape of the dreamcatcher is a circle because it represents the circle of life and how forces like the sun and moon travel each day and night across the sky. The dream catcher web catches the bad dreams during the night and dispose of them when the day comes. As for the good dreams, the feathers act as a fluffy, pillow-like ladder that allows them to gently descend upon the sleeping person undisturbed. There is some contention when it comes to the meaning of the beads that often decorate the dreamcatcher. According to some American Indians, the beads symbolize the spider—the web weaver itself. Others believe the beads symbolize the good dreams that could not pass through the web, immortalized in the form of sacred charms.
Dreamcatcher Meaning Today: Authentic Symbol or Cultural Appropriation?
Though dreamcatchers are quite common, finding real authentic dreamcatchers is not that easy today. Real handmade dream catchers are usually small in size and feature sacred charms like feathers and beads. Many dreamcatchers for sale today, however, are much more American than Native American, often oversized and constructed from cheap plastic materials. Many Native Americans still consider the dreamcatcher to be a long-standing cultural symbol of unity and identification among the many Indian Nations and First Nations cultures. Sadly, many other Native Americans have come to see dream catchers as just another cultural appropriation, over-commercialized and at times offensively misappropriated and misused by non-Natives.
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