By D Blog Beez
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A dream catcher is considered sacred to Native American culture.
It consists of a willow hoop that has a net or web woven on it, with feathers and beads hanging from it. They were originally hung over cradles of babies and symbolize protection.
To Native Americans, they served the purpose of ‘catching dreams’. Dream catchers are of Ojibwe origin and are meant to protect children from nightmares. Dreams are believed to enter the dream catchers where bad dreams get caught in the tangled web of the dream catchers. The good dreams are believed to pass through the web and float down to the beads and feathers. The feathers are meaningful because they were believed to transfer the good dreams from dream catchers to the baby. The bad dreams caught in the web of dream catchers are believed to be destroyed by sunlight.
. “Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”
– James Dean.
2. “Dreamcatcher in the rearview mirror hasn’t caught a thing yet. Twenty dollars in souvenirs. Anything’s worth trying to stay out of your nightmares.”
– Julien Rose Baker.
3. “Sleep, baby sleep, whispers spirit of the woods as big sister weaves a dream net on a little willow hoop. A dream net for baby like a small spider web, spun of nettle-stalk twine, stained dark red with the bark of wild plum.”
– Audrey Osofsky.
4. “The dream catcher reminds us how important the dream world has been to people throughout time. Dreams have provided medicine men, shamans, and prophets a portal to another realm.”null
– John Cline.
5. “Don’t let someone else catch your dreams. You be the dream catcher.”
-Unknown.*
6. “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
– Carl Jung.
7. “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
– Oscar Wilde.
8. “I am your dreamcatcher, Your shelter in the night. I am your dreamcatcher, protector from the fright. I am your dreamcatcher, as if our minds would be entwined, I catch yours and you catch mine.”null
– Christopher Weule.
9. “What if people were like dream catchers?”
– Nandini Thakar.
10. “Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”
– Elvis Presley.
11. “Dreamcatcher, I can see you waving in the night alone. Slow winter, and I feel I might get left out in the cold.”
– Laura Pergolizzi.
12. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.”
– John C. Maxwell.
13. “Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.”
– William Dement.
14. “My dreams are so big that they can’t get into a dream catcher.”null
– Fathima Shamla.
15. “You make me feel safe and secure, keep my fears and demons away with beads and bells, little lights and feathers…strings that bind all the goodness, love and care shooing my nightmares away. You are my personal dreamcatcher.”
-Jyotsna Mishra
16. “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
― Anais Nin.
17. “Dreams may act as a lens, through which we perceive life clearly.”
-Unknown.*
18. “Dreamcatchers cross cultural boundaries and serve to communicate a shared consciousness that unites persons with different backgrounds.”
– Cath Oberholtzer.
19. “Dreamcatcher, save me from the darkness in my soul. Dreamcatcher, let me see the future I don’t know. Help me hold on tight and don’t let go.”
– Caeland Garner.
20. “I have so many dreams to work for, I have so many things to see…Maybe it’d be easier if I were simply a dreamcatcher.”null
– Aananya Ratan.
21. “I wanted to meet you more often; I bought myself a dream catcher.”
– Sourajita D.
22. “Come, get entwined in the dream catcher of my heart.”
― Melody Lee.
23. “You were that entity, which the dreamcatcher happened to see more often than I could ever wish for.”
– Subiya Hussain.
24. “The only requirement of having a dream, is believing in it.”
– Molly Barker.
25. “I sleep unafraid and in rapture, lulled by visual melodies of my dreamcatcher.”
-Kavisha Srivastava.