catching dreams (dream catcher)

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Ever wondered how your dreams can be filtered? What do you call an object that can capture your unwanted and most feared nightmares? Where do dreams come from? Dreams are memories or subconscious thoughts that are visually manifested while we are sleeping. Dream are snap shots of images that pass through our minds. They usually come from experiences that we have had or things that we have seen while we were awake. What we see as images in our sleep are dreams and sometimes could be nightmares, or the scenes similar to your favorite horror tableau. Dream catchers are one of the most fascinating traditions of Native Americans. The traditional dream catcher was intended to protect the sleeping individual from negative dreams, while letting positive dreams through. The positive dreams would slip through the hole in the center of the dream catcher, and glide down the feathers to the sleeping person below. The negative dreams would get caught up in the web, and expire when the first rays of the sun struck them. Woven by old Ojibwa people in the ancient times, dream catchers are made of twigs, sinew, and feathers. Good dreams are clear and know the way to the dreamer, descending through the feathers. The slightest movement of the feathers indicated the passage of yet another beautiful dream. Bad dreams, however, are confused and confusing. They cannot find their way through the web and are trapped there until the sun rises and evaporates them like the morning dew. Real or not, dream catchers are meant to give out a positive notion to people who have been having tremendous problems sleeping because of nightmares. Vocabulary Enhancement: 1. filtered: to sort out the good from anything bad 2. notion: a general understanding; imperfect concept or idea of something 3. tremendous: extraordinarily great in size 4. glide down: to move smoothly and continuously along 5. fascinating: attractive; holds natural charm 6. tableau: a picturesque grouping of persons or objects; a striking scene. perspective exchange: 1. Have you ever had nightmares? What were they like? 2. DO you agree that a web can capture nightmares? 3. What were the best dreams that you had? 4. What were the worst dreams that you had? 5. Where do you think dreams come from?