Dreams are messages from the spirit world.
The good spirit dreams, being smart, will find their way through the center hole and float down the sacred feathers onto the sleeping one. The bad spirit dreams, being stupid, will get caught in the web and disappear with the morning light. Dreamcatchers are believed to bestow pleasant dreams, good luck, and lifetime harmony. By the early 1900's, dark red yarn had been substituted for plant fiber in constructing the web by the Ojibwe. Tara Prindle Structure of a Dreamcatcher Dreamcatchers made of willow and sinew are for children, and they are not mean't to last.