Dream Catcher.

As a child I had terrible nightmares.  More often than not I would wake up in cold sweats and screaming.  My sister and I shared a room and she would always jump into my bed with me and tell me that everything was okay.  She'd cuddle and sing to me until I fell asleep before she would clamber up into her own bed.    My dreams haunted me.  There were some nights that I would be terrified to even close my eyes.  Until... Tanna taught be about dream catchers.  

Dream Catchers originally come from the Chippewa tribe that believed the dream catcher would alter a person's dreams by protecting the sleeper from negative dreams. Catching bad dreams inside its web and allowing good dreams to filter through the center hole and descend down the feathers to the dreamer.  The slightest movement of the feathers would indicate the passage of another beautiful dream.  Bad dreams however were trapped in the web and would be burned off by the morning sun.

Tanna drew one on the cubby of my bottom bunkbed.  That night, I wasn't afraid of falling asleep for I knew the dream catcher would protect me.  I didn't have a bad dream that night and many nights went unscathed.  

To this day, I have a dream catcher hanging in my room.  I know it sounds silly, but I believe in my dream catcher.  On very rare occasions I DO have a bad dream, but they are rare and few between.