American Dreamcatchers are one of the most fascinating and enduring traditions of Native Indian history. 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, human hair, or beads. Dreamcatchers have been a part of Native Indian culture for generations. One element of Native American dreamcatcher relates to the tradition of the hoop. Some Native Americans of North America held the hoop in the highest esteem, because it symbolized strength and unity. The traditional dreamcatcher was primarily intended to protect the sleeping individual from negative dreams, while letting happy positive dreams slip through. Native Americans believed that the night air was filled with dreams both good and bad. The dreamcatcher when displayed over or near a bed swinging freely in the air, catches the dreams as they flow by. The positive dreams would filter through the hole in the center of the dreamcatcher, and glide down the feathers to the sleeping person below. The negative dreams involving scary tactile clowns and sinister rats protecting mountains of cheese would get caught up in the web, and expire when the first rays of the sun struck them.

Absolutely positively no guarantee express or implied is given that these dreamcatchers will ward off nightmares. Personally, I have loads on the wall above the bed and still have many a night waking up drenched in urine, trembling, and screaming , 'die, die, die, scary clown man.' Always seem to dream of Richard Nixon in a clown mask offering me sweets. Sometimes it be Russell Brand or Tony Blair.