My cats had a hobby of dream catching. They slept 23 hours a day and spent the remaining hour eating and searching for somewhere to sleep. Perhaps they were gathering their dreams on the way.
Otherwise the expression and designs of dream catching seems to be something actuially unknown in our part of the world so we borrowed it from the states and I think it originated in the native Indian world. My first glance of a dream catcher was in a film and our markets here now and again show some dream catchers, although I have never seen a dream in one of these webs.
I suppose we all dream, I know I do. There are some dreams I am glad to forget but there are also dreams that are really good, but those are usually the ones that I usually tend to forget, a few minutes after waking afterwards. Perhaps I should get myself a dream catcher to help me to remember them. Perhaps I should try making my own.
RDP Wednesdasy: Dreamcatcher
I have a dreamcatcher, and my cats love to play with it, so I can’t hang it up properly. Oh well!!
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They are not playing with it, they are catching their dreams
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Mine is up high, too, mostly because I learned the hard way how interesting such things are to kitties. My Felix the car clock with moving eyes and wagging tail got the cat treatment within minutes of me hanging it too low, letting me know the cat thing is for especially interesting objects that move. The dream catcher’s feathers move when the ceiling fan’s on!
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Yes, the origins are Native American and (new to me) First Nations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcatcher
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Yes, Ojibwe, of the region of the Great Lakes, although shared with many other indigenous cultures.
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The dream catcher catches the bad dreams before they can get to you and lets the good ones through.
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This morning I had an interesting dream, nothing bad, but I just cannot remember now what it was about. They should invent a dream catcher to remember it better.
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