My friend has been doing a lot of research about Native Americans lately as part of her degree course. She has found out all sorts of really interesting facts about them and one of the things she has really enjoyed finding out about is the Native American Dream Catcher. When I asked her what a Native American Dream Catcher was, she explained to me that it was a sort of dangling ornament made up of a frame with feathers or something similar dangling from the frame. This would then catch any bad dreams so that children could go to sleep happily without any bad dreams to plague them. I thought that the Native American Dream Catcher sounded like a really lovely thing to have and asked her if I could get one for my little girl. The reason I thought of this is because she has been complaining quite a lot about getting bad dreams lately. This has really been difficult for me to deal with as she is getting out of bed two or three times in the middle of the night and waking up the whole household. I think that if I could explain to her this custom and put one in her bedroom it might just completely stop these night time disruptions.

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