No, not quite nothing. The dreams remained as memories. But that was worse than nothing. He knew, deep down inside he knew, that he would walk the path, that the totems would call him, were calling him when he slept. But a shaman must consciously choose to walk the path, that's what someone had told him long ago. He must hear the song of the totems and consciously decide to follow wherever they led. Only then could someone become a shaman. He had to seek out the song in his waking life.