It includes anything that brings strength, personal power, understanding, healing of mind, body and spirit. In many tribal cultures, it is believed the night air is filled with floating dreams and ancestral knowledge, both good and bad. The legend shared here is the most commonly circulated Native American legends of the DreamCatcher. To encourage good dreams, A Grandmother creates dreamcatchers to hang above the cradle boards of sleeping infants and to give newly married couples. The webbing of the dreamcatcher catches the night dreams.
Bad dreams become entangled in the webbing and perish at the first light of day.
Good dreams, knowing the way, float along the web. The dreams collect as thoughts, knowledge, memories and flow through the center hole off the feathers and into the mind of the dreamer. Each part of a dreamcatcher has a symbolic meaning and carries special energies. Dreamcatchers are believed to bless the 'sleeping one' with pleasant dreams, good luck and harmony throughout their lives. It s said that the dream catcher holds the destiny of the future.