The Dream Catcher 3000

Dreams are a powerful thing. You close your eyes and your imagination steers you anywhere it wants, and when you open your eyes, wherever your imagination wandered off magically vanishes in a matter of seconds. But lately these trips that my imagination has led me overnight have contained these reoccurring themes, themes that have permanently captivated my mind. These reoccurring themes are composed of the ghosts of my past, the ghosts that have lived on despite the short-term second span of forgetting, the ghosts I wish were made-up and would remain transparent for the rest of time.

The Native Americans believed that the dreams we have overnight are messages sent from sacred spirits. In solution, they created what is known as a dream catcher, which appears in the form of a spider web. The holes in the web allow the positive messages sent from sacred spirits to enter ones sleep, while the web traps the negative messages.

It is times like these when I wish I could own some "Dream Catcher 3000" that had the technology to instantly and permanently devour all the negative messages and ghosts away from my dreams and my reality. It is times like these when I wish I could physically see a web of what I should allow to pass through the web's holes and what I should allow the web to trap and not permit into my life.

If there is any future Steve Jobs who is interested in creating the Dream Catcher 3000, or I suppose a i-DreamCatcher, then by all means: go for it. It would truly be the most convenient and efficient way of knowing who is worth over-analyzing and who is worth trapping in a web.

Then again, if this state of the art dream catcher were invented, this blog would be irrelevant and dead. Therefore, I take it back and leave it at this:

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."

-Chief Seattle