h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have a Native American dreamcatcher over my bed. Last night it fell off and I slept with it right next to my head.

I dreamt that a purple (? - I usually dream in black and white, so I'm a bit confused as to what colour it was - I get the feeling it was purple) cartoonish tyrannosaurus rex who was about to eat one of the 'littler' dinosaurs when all the herbivores restrained it. All these different dinosaurs pounced on the t-rex. I remember the brontisaurus wrapped it's neck around the t-rex's body. So, the poor t-rex was being carried along in this huge mass of dinosaurs. There were dozens of them all holding onto a part of him and all that was free was his right leg and he was waving it about, quite pathetically and mournfully. The dinosaurs eventually arrived at whereever they were going and it was decided that the best thing to do would be to cut off poor rexy's head. He was going along with this, he was quite sad, all he had wanted was some lunch, he hadn't wanted to hurt anyone and he didn't want his head to be cut off but he understood that it was all for the best. Next thing I know, rexy's head is sitting on the ground and there's some conversation, I can't remember it now but the t-rex head says something like, well, I at least want the reward for my capture. Apparently there'd been a reward, and seeing as rexy hadn't struggled or complained, the dinosaurs figured he might as well get the reward. So one dinosaur, who's starting to look like a human, looks up into the sky and raises his hands and says something like 'Oh powerful god, please deliver some money to make this dinosaur happy'. Rexy isn't convinced, but the priest dinosaur/human and all the other dinosaurs have gone off, and rexy's head is left sitting on the ground by himself. He sits there looking up at the sky, waiting for his money, not that he believes that it's coming, but he's a head without a body, what else is he going to do? Poor rexy, he sat and waited for 3 days and nights, ever hopeful.

It left me feeling quite sad and sorry for the poor thing.

Poor rexy!

There's gotta be some deep symbolic meaning in there

I have a dreamcatcher too. One I made.

I got a piece of paper with mine saying it was made by a Navajo. It's white with nice leather and feathers and plastic beads and a stylised eagle in metal with a piece of turquoise. I sometimes wonder what the Navajos think about making that sort of stuff for people who think it's all mystical and whatever.