[big][b]Dreaming Together : Visions and Dreams[/b][/big]
I remember, like in ceremony, when I went through a vision quest when I was a young man or if I went through the sun dance as a young adult, we slept in teepees at night. I began to understand that these teepees were like a vortex for these dreams to come down from the stars. We believe in the Star Nation, the Star People. They are in a lot of our stories too. The beautiful young lady who was brought down to become the sisters of the brothers of the four directions to help map out this world. Those are creation stories. So when the young woman comes down from the stars, she helped these brothers to map out the world for us.
When I was in ceremony, all our people in ceremony dream together. They experience a lot of the same things together.
I remember in one particular sun dance, when you look at the flags in the trees waving, this huge white flag became this woman's buckskin dress. This black flag that was above it became her long hair. There seen was this young woman up in the trees fanning herself with an eagle feather fan. I was thinking “What is this? Am I hallucinating? Is this a vision I am having?” That night I told the other Sun Dancers I had seen the young lady sitting in the trees, fanning herself with the eagle feather. Then she turned into an eagle. She flew up circling us three times then she flew east. These other Sun Dancers said, “You seen that too?!” And I was like, “Wow,” we all seen that together!.” And everybody was saying “ I didn't want to tell anybody cause they’d think I was crazy. So I said, “we had a shared vision, a shared dream.”
Dreams come at night, but on rare occasions they come during the day too.
For young people they grow when they sleep, That’s how they grow. So when they sleep during the day, they can have dreams during the day too that helps them grow.
When you share dreams together there’s more power in that. There’s more power. There's more understanding. There’s more health and healing in that.
That’s one of the revelations I had on dreaming together.