Dream Catching

Dreamcatchers are to me, one of the most facinating traditions of the Native Americans. They are intended to protect the sleeping individual from negative dreams, while letting positive dreams slip through. The good dreams are said to find their way through the center of the dreamcatcher and float gently down the feathers to the sleeping person below. Meanwhile, bad dreams will get tangled in the webbing and perish with the first light of the new day. So I guess we can say that this is how my story begins...

Ever since I can remember I have owned a dreamcatcher. As I think back, they have always played a part in my life and always will. Looking around my room right now I have four of them, plus one hanging from the rear view mirror of my car. I have always believed in them and I feel as though they have almost always worked for me. As a child I had a dreamcatcher hanging in my bedroom and as a result, I very rarely had bad dreams. Even now its not often that I'll have a bad dream. Everything has it's imperfections and I know that some dreams can be deceiving and find their way through the webs. These are just one of the many beautiful things that are a part of my life and I feel very blessed to be protected by them.

Dream Catcher, Dream Catcher, catch me a dream
Follow me into the mystical stream
Where everything's wonderful and not what it seems
But magically, mystically, wonderfully free.
-Shanice Thibedeau