Scary Dream Catcher
Ever since i made this dream catcher ive been having crazy dream the other night i had a dream that i was awake in my bed and there looked like there was someone in my closet then a random dog was on my bed and kept getting closer and i jus couldnt wake up i finaly shook myself awake i havnt slept in my room since. Is my dream catcher haunted? The shape of the dreamcatcher is a circle because it represents the circle of life and how forces like the sun and moon travel each day and night across the sky. The dream catcher web will catch the bad dreams during night and dispose of them when the day comes. Dream Catchers are a spiritual tool used to help assure good dreams to those that sleep under them. A dream catcher is usually placed over a place you would sleep where the morning light can hit it. As you sleep all dreams from the spirit world have to pass through the dream catcher. Only good dreams can pass through to the dreamer while the bad dreams are caught in the webbing. In some Native American and First Nations cultures, a dreamcatcher or dream catcher (Ojibwe: asabikeshiinh, the inanimate form of the word for 'spider') is a handmade willow hoop, on which is woven a net or web.The dreamcatcher may also include sacred items such as certain feathers or beads. Traditionally they are often hung over a cradle as protection. It originates in Anishinaabe.
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Date: 2013-10-08
Country: United States
State: California
Paranormal Category: Apparitions / Voices / Touches
For my birthday, a good friend of mine got me a dreamcatcher. I had no idea the 'rules' of dreamcatchers and put it on top of my cat and watched him play with it. Then, I hung it up in my room above my bed.
That night I was woken up about once or twice to something pulling at my ankles, causing a full body jolt feeling. I shrugged off and went to sleep just fine.
I went on vacation for the weekend and the night I returned some very freaky things happened. It started with the same jolting feeling, then it felt as if someone grabbed my wrist and pulled it. It felt as if someone was trying to wake me up. This happened about 6 times before I heard a female voice say, 'See me.' I kept ignoring the presence until I got up and turned the light on in my room and attempted to sleep again.
Then, something grabbed my ankles again and threw them up almost causing me to fully lift off my bed. Keep in mind I'm under the covers. I turned onto my back and then I felt a great amount of pressure on my chest and couldn't breathe for a few seconds. This was it for me and I crawled into bed with my roommate down the hall. Everything ended and I was able to sleep through the night.
The next day, I moved the dreamcatcher to my kitchen, not knowing where else to put it. When I moved it, I noticed there was a black mark across where the dreamcatcher was. This was not there before.
I've read that some people believe dreamcatchers can act as a portal to evil spirits. I have been approached by spirits before, especially when I was a kid but the past two years I have had paranormal things happen to me. Never has it felt as threatening as this time. Hopefully getting rid of the dreamcatcher will solve this issue.
Any thoughts?
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I understand the purpose of dreamcatchers and was excited to put one up in my room. I had no prior knowledge or suspicion of a dream catcher as a portal.
After this experience, I took it down and haven't had any problems since.
Also, the dream catcher was dyed blue and the mark on my wall is a deep black color. So that doesn't explain where the mark came from.
-Nic
Http://www.nativetech.org/dreamcat/dreminst.html
Http://www.dancingtoeaglespiritsociety.org/dreamcatcher.php
When my kids were younger, one of them made me one in school. A primitive sort of crude design, but with good intentions. (I hope!) I was delighted and hung it up, and from the 1st night I had bad dreams. It was there for about a month before I put 2 and 2 together, and took it down. The bad dreams ceased.
I'm guessing that it's a spiritual type of device, similar to a crucifix. Native Americans and other cultures, too, perhaps, knew the power behind it, but as laypeople, everyday joes, we simply looked at it as a 'decorative' ornament' akin to wearing a rosary as a necklace. (I did that, too, as a teenager, before becoming a Catholic... My bad!)
I'd be interested to hear from a Shaman or medicine-man/woman about feedback on dream catchers. Any takers? Should they be made only by certain people, or be blessed by authoritarian-figures? How do you make them work PROPERLY? 😕
I think lady-glow is onto something with the dye theory, and the 'jolting' you felt unrelated to the dream catcher. Like some of the others, I've no idea how on earth you managed to go to sleep afterwards!
I know, every now and then I will feel a 'jolting' hard enough to wake me. It feels as if my legs (sometimes it extends up to my shoulders) was heavily dropped onto the bed. The following theories have been offered to me as means of explanation;1) my body was actually responding to some action in my dream state (similar to sleep walking), 2) I was beginning to levitate. 🤔 Personally, in my experience, I don't think there's a paranormal cause, it's just my body being weird. The first couple of times, it really freaked me out, but since nothing ever happened afterwards, I simply lay quietly until I return to sleep.
The Dream Catchers were made to put over babies cradles by N.A. Tribes to keep nightmare/evil spirits away. If the Dream Catcher became full it was brought to the spiritual shaman to have it cleansed and blessed. They are not portals for evil spirits to come though, quite the opposite. So rest assured your cat playing with it didn't harm it.
To clean it take it outside and use a can of compressed air (the kind you use for the computer) with the design facing you to blow away anything attached. If you have to use water use as little as possible.
Stores aren't supposed to sell N.A. Items but they do all the time so please try to buy only items made by southwest tribes.
I can't help but wonder if these events may be the result of your idea that dream catchers attract evil. On some level you expected to experience something, so something happened. The mind is a tricky bugger.
And like Miracles, I would also like to know the 'rules.' Hadn't heard of any. 😳
While we're on this subject, I'd like to know where you read that dreamcatchers act as portals to evil spirits.
A dream catcher is supposed to filter a person's dreams allowing only the positive ones and catching the bad ones.
...good excuse to crawl into your roommate's bed! 🤔
But one question. Since you said that you felt like someone was over your chest and that you were not able to breath for a few seconds, could it have been a nightmare that someone was trying to touch your ankle or wrist and that you had a sleep paralysis. I am not doubting your experience. But just need a clarification. Because some dreams are so real and when it is coupled with sleep paralysis, it would look like paranormal. That is why I asked. Please clarify.
Regards and respects to you.
SDS
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Hi friends! I have totally been slacking on the DIY front for a while now. I have been putting all my creative efforts into graphic design so there is little creativity left to be thrown around doing crafty projects around the house. However I have been wanting to do this project for a while and have been collecting my supplies for some time!
This DIY hula hoop dreamcatcher was so much fun to make.
I used to make dreamcatchers when I was small so making this DIY hula hoop dreamcatcher just meant I had to create on a bigger scale and I really wanted something colourful and beautiful! not that traditional dreamcatchers aren’t beautiful, but I really wanted something that reflected me and also would look super cute over our bed. Insert another reason I wanted to make this, we don’t have a headboard and I have been wanting some sort of decoration or something to define the space above our bed, and keep the scary dreams away!
Anywho, there you have it the completed DIY hula hoop dreamcatcher. Now you may be thinking, well how did you make it!? Well I’m happy you asked!
First thing you need to do is gather your supplies, and seriously the sky is the limit here! the only real necessity you need is a hula hoop and you really need yarn or string for the webbing, mmmm and you need something to cover up the hideous hula hoop
Ok FINE maybe you need more than just a hula hoop!
Scary Dream Catcher Clip Art
Here is what I used in no specific order:
- small hula hoop (mine was from the dollarama)
- various yarns
- cotton yarn for webbing
- different texture and colour yarn for hanging
- neutral textured yarn for wrapping around the hula hoop
- coloured feathers (dollarama)
- various buttons
- ribbon – various sizes and colours
- pear necklace (thrift store)
- beads
- pieces of lace and doily runners
You can see above that I just mixed and match all sorts of things to create colour and texture. The biggest thing here is texture! you could make a DIY hula hoop dreamcatcher in ALL white as long as every fabric, string and item you used has different textures. But for me I really wanted to add colour.
Now the first thing you have to do is wrap that hula hoop.
This part kind of sucked was very tedious and felt like it took FOREVER!
One thing when picking your yarn/fabric to wrap the hula hoop in….use something thicker! OMGosh I would have threw a fit been slightly upset if I had used something thin because it would have taken so much longer than it already did!
Next thing I did was hang all my fancy elements from the bottom of my hoop. I cut my pearl necklace (GASP it was $2 from the thrift store relax) and tied it onto ribbon and then tied it to the hoop. I did the same thing for the feathers (from the dollarama) and then I just eyeballed and played around with placing all the other bits and bobbles I had!
oh and speaking of those bits 90% of them where purchased at the thrift store in the craft section. You can usually find bags of yarns and scraps of materials and lace and all sort of random goodies for super cheap.
Back to the project now…length is important with your elements it really adds to the eye-catching nature of the DIY hula hoop dreamcatcher and gives it dramatic flair.
Here is a closer look at the elements so you can see how I tied them on and whatnots are there and such. <– technical art talk.
Scary Dream Catcher
Next step is to web your DIY hula hoop dreamcatcher
If you don’t know how to web a dreamcatcher google it already! Ok fine here is a link because I am way to lazy just not patient enough to explain it all!
Your lucky I stopped to take a picture in the middle of my webbing this damn thing beautiful piece of art. Because it included me sweating, swearing and crawling around on the floor for the better part of an hour.
And don’t forget to add in some sort of bling in your webbing design! I used vintage buttons and shell buttons that I had already in my craft stash.
I also used some beads at the end of my webbing string that I just left dangling down.
I used cotton yarn (the stuff you would use for knitting dishcloths with) because it had more grip to it then the synthetic slippery yarns so it was easier to keep in place, and the type I had was white with flecks of colour which also tied the whole DIY hula hoop dreamcatcher together I think.
And now for the close up!
So there you have it! This is where my DIY hula hoop dreamcatcher lives, above our bed ready to catch all the bad dreams, let through the good ones, and look super stylish all at the same time!
Hope you enjoyed this this craft project, let me know in the comments below.