My Dreamcatcher

Good friends are like stars...
You don't always see them,
But you know they are always there,
Especially when you need them,
Or even when you least expect them to be there...
In short, you know, they'll never let you down.




Last night, over dinner, a good friend of mine gave me this dreamcatcher. It is a lovely, pink dreamcatcher which is made of golden threads, tiny shocking pink beads, a few colourful beads and some pink feathers! He hopes that I will be able to capture all the good dreams in my life! In reality, all of us also hope earnestly that most of our dreams would come true... Let's catch our dreams with zeal!



In Ojibwa (Chippewa) culture, a dreamcatcher is a handmade object based on a willow hoop, on which is woven a loose net or web. The dreamcatcher is then decorated with personal and sacred items such as feathers and beads. The Ojibwa believe that a dreamcatcher changes a person's dreams. According to Terri J. Andrews, "Only good dreams would be allowed to filter through . . . Bad dreams would stay in the net, disappearing with the light of day." Good dreams would pass through and slide down the feathers to the sleeper. Another version was, "Good dreams pass through the center hole to the sleeping person. The bad dreams are trapped in the web where they perish in the light of dawn."