I saw a parked car that had an American Indian Dreamcatcher hanging from the rearview mirror.
Was the driver concerned about not having bad dreams while they fell asleep at the wheel?
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I saw a parked car that had an American Indian Dreamcatcher hanging from the rearview mirror.
Was the driver concerned about not having bad dreams while they fell asleep at the wheel?
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Could logically be for the benefit of passengers who fell asleep. Hopefully not for the driver.
According to Wikipedia some view the dreamcatcher simply as a symbol of unity/identification among Native Americans.
True story: I once drove by a closed cemetery and sitting outside the gate in uniform was a private guard. I always wondered: Was he trying to stop people from getting in or out?
Dreamcatchers work two ways:
1. Catch good dreams and allow the bad ones to slip away.
2. Catch bad dreams to be destroyed by the sun, and the good ones slip through the center to settle on the dreamer.
Perhaps this driver ascribes to thought #1. Or they are just showing their NA pride. 😉
Well Peter, would you want your last dream to suck?
What’s that old joke? “When I die, I want to go like my grandfather did: Peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.”
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That’s just the way you transport dream catchers, suspended from the mirror. If you lay them down in a seat, or put them in the trunk, they’ll bounce around and break.
Duh.
Did it look really nice, or like something a kid would make in arts and crafts?
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Either way, I suspect the driver didn’t think any farther than, “Oooh, pretty.”
The joke above reminds me of the other classic.
I’ll never forget my grandfathers last words:
“A truck!!”
Heh. Sweet deal, haven’t heard that one. I like the “peacefully in his sleep” one too, forgot about that one.
Oh thank monkey I’m *not alone*!
We didn’t put in our car, we hung it on her door knob.
Our daughter (9 months old in about 2 weeks) has trouble sleeping. Sometimes in the middle of the night she’ll get really restless and cry out, then fall back asleep.
One of my nieces (almost 8, part of a set of triplets) heard us talking about her trouble sleeping and made her a dream catcher to help catch and trap the nightmares.
Kids are so precious sometimes 🙂