Dream Catchers - Writers Forum

NoWorries · 12-09-2004, 08:22 PM

Not to intrude on the other dream thread, I thought I'd create a new post.

My ceiling is this weird stuff, in that it looks like normal spackle, but is extremely hard and impossible to screw through.

I took the screw out of one of the light fixtures and hung my trusty Navajo/Hopi dream catcher from it. My bed wasn't under it by about a foot, I thought maybe it'd be close enough.

For the last year, I have had almost NO dreams. About a week ago I decided that I had to tweak it around. I moved my bed under another light fixture and moved the dream catcher so it is directly above my pillow. The last few days I have been having the craziest dreams you can imagine. Not bad dreams, but like everything that was ever caught in my subconcious is tearing out all at once. It's a very interesting experience.

Needless to say, I am all for the power of the dream-catcher, and if you remember my tattoo thread from a while ago, I had decided to get a small dream-catcher over my heart, but now I'm not going to Vegas...

This brings up another point, with a dream catcher, you are not certain to get a properly working one. I will never forget, in fourth or fifth grade, our teacher had us make dream catchers out of colorful yarn and popcicle sticks. A novel idea. I remember to this day the three nights I slept with that dream catcher over my bed and how terrified I was when I woke up. I don't remember the nightmares, but I do remember that I took the dream catcher down and put it on the shelf.

FoggyImagination · 12-09-2004, 10:16 PM

I don't know. My mom bought me a dream catcher when I was like 9 or 10...because of the nightmares I used to have (see worst nightmare thread ha ha...damn norman rockwell). It didn't do anything. And believe me, I wanted to believe.

Then I got one a few years ago just for fun...no change.

Bought one for my cousin...no change.

But they're cute, and the idea of it is a good one.

pgoroncy · 12-09-2004, 10:25 PM

I voted for maybe because I open to just about anything, but I haven't seen any evidence one way or the other.

Rkay · 12-10-2004, 01:58 AM

Mmmm......

personally, after reading that...
could it have a 'placebo' effect on some people?
just wondering if my wandering thought would offer some direction to resolving that issue....
i am not sure I did, but for now, i will leave it with that thought....

mammamaia · 12-10-2004, 09:17 AM

no worries...
having lived with the hopi and studied both tribes histories, i have to note that joining them as you did [navajo/hopi] is anathema to the hopi...

the reason being that the two tribes do not have a common genesis and, because the navajo stole first the hopi's corn, next, their women and children, and then most of the hopi land [with the help of the spaniards and lately the us gov't]...

finally, in recent years, they've even been stealing their one remaining source of livelihood, their crafts... navajos make cheap ripoffs of the hopi sacred katsina [kachina] dolls, and fake the hopi silverwork, selling the phonies on the internet and on the highways just past the boundaries of hopiland...

sorry for the mini-rant, but these are 'my' people, and they are one of the few [if not only] truly peaceful people in the world... which is why it's been so easy for everyone to take all they had, because they don't even fight back...

i'm glad you think your dreamcatcher can save your from nightmares, however... whether it's the device or your own subconscious doesn't really matter, if it works, right?... fyi, dreamcatchers are not part of the hopi belief... they're navajo, taken from the ojibway, far as i know...

love and hugs, maia

stereomuse · 12-14-2004, 04:05 PM

of course I do. I'm extremely superstitious.