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dreamcatcher

alt. A decorative Native American object in the form of a hoop and net with attachments such as feathers, traditionally believed by the Ojibwa to "filter out" bad dreams. n. A decorative Native American object in the form of a hoop and net with attachments such as feathers, traditionally believed by the Ojibwa to "filter out" bad dreams.

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Dreamcatcher (novel)

Dreamcatcher (2001) is a novel written by Stephen King, featuring elements of body horror, suspense and alien invasion. It was adapted into a 2003 film of the same name. The book, written in cursive, helped the author recuperate from a 1999 car accident, and was completed in half a year. According to the author in his afterword, the working title was Cancer. His wife, Tabitha King, persuaded him to change the title.

In 2014, King told Rolling Stone that "I don't like Dreamcatcher very much," and stated that the book was written under the influence of Oxycontin.

Dreamcatcher (disambiguation)

Dreamcatcher is a Native American cultural object.

Dreamcatcher may also refer to:

Dreamcatcher (Secret Garden album)

Dreamcatcher is a greatest hits package from the Irish-Norwegian duo Secret Garden released in 2000 in the United Kingdom, on 22 May 2001 in the United States, and with a special Australian tour edition released in 2004.

Dreamcatcher

In some Native American cultures, a dreamcatcher (or dream catcher; , , the inanimate form of the word for "spider" or meaning "dream snare") is a handmade object based on a willow hoop, on which is woven a loose net or web. The dreamcatcher is then decorated with sacred items such as feathers and beads.

Dreamcatcher (2003 film)

Dreamcatcher is a 2003 American science fiction horror film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan and co-written by Kasdan and screenwriter William Goldman, the film stars Damian Lewis, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee and Timothy Olyphant as four friends who encounter an invasion of parasitic aliens.

Dreamcatcher (Ian Gillan album)

Dreamcatcher is a studio album by Ian Gillan, released in September 1997 in Japan, October 1997 in the United Kingdom and in May 1998 in the US. All songs were performed by Ian Gillan accompanied by Steve Morris. The album was being worked on between 1995 and 1997.

There are three different versions of the album. The basic European edition consists of twelve tracks. The US edition was remixed by Bob Katz, the order of the songs was changed and it has a different cover. The Japanese edition includes of two extra tracks.

Dreamcatcher is considered the most obscure album in Gillan's career. It features mostly acoustic songs, closer to folk and blues traditions than to rock, the genre for which Gillan is mainly known. It received little media attention and generally had rather disappointing reviews.

Dreamcatcher (Last Autumn's Dream album)

Dreamcatcher is the sixth studio album by hard rock band Last Autumn's Dream released by Marquee Avalon in Japan on December 24, 2008 and under Escape Music label for European market on January 26, 2009.

Dreamcatcher (Andy McKee album)

Dreamcatcher, released in 2004, is Andy McKee's second studio album. This album features four tracks re-released on Mckee's third album, Art of Motion, as well as two songs re-released on his 2009 EP Common Ground.

Dreamcatcher (David Lowe album)

Dreamcatcher is the debut album by English composer David Lowe, under his Dreamcatcher moniker.

Dreamcatcher (2015 film)

Dreamcatcher is a 2015 documentary film directed by Kim Longinotto focusing on Brenda Myers-Powell, a former prostitute who runs Dreamcatcher Foundation, a charity which helps women in Chicago leave the sex industry. The film won the World Cinema Directing Award in the documentary category at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Showtime Networks acquired the rights to the film on 23 January 2015.

Dreamcatcher (2016)

Dreamcatcher is the debut novel of a University of Delhi based young novelist Rosheena Zehra. Written in 2011 and Published in 2016 by StoryMirror the novel is about the inner turmoil of a woman in urban India. It is a novel which is in synchronization with the ongoing women's movement in India. The novel was launched by Tom Alter The novel is a story of a girl suffering from madness and her struggle with the real world and people.

Dreamcatcher (Once Upon a Time)

"Dreamcatcher" is the fifth episode of the fifth season of the American fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time, which aired on October 25, 2015.

In this episode, with Mary Margaret and David attempting to retrieve the dagger, Emma uses a Dreamcatcher to look into the past to see how Merlin was transformed into a tree, and joins Regina in their quest to free the sorcerer, but Arthur is determined to keep Merlin imprisoned. Henry is encouraged by both his mothers to ask Violet out on a date. Meanwhile, in Storybrooke, Emma uses Mérida to turn Gold into the hero she needs to release Excalibur as the heroes come up with a plan to break into Emma's home to see what she has in the basement.

Usage examples of "dreamcatcher".

While watching Dreamcatcher, however, I noticed a mentally challenged kid sitting nearby and realized that the only time his interest was fully engaged was when Duddits was on-screen.

There were some dreamcatchers and curse-nets, which she sometimes saw hanging up outside cottages at home.

In truth, most witches could get through their whole life without having to do serious, undeniable magic (making shambles and curse-nets and dreamcatchers didn’t really count, being rather more like arts-and-crafts, and most of the rest of it was practical medicine, common sense and the ability to look stern in a pointy hat).

Among his most recent are From a Buick 8, Everything's Eventual, Dreamcatcher, On Writing, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and Bag of Bones.

I parked across the street from the house, in front of an empty lot full of parched jimson weed and brambles as intricately woven as a dreamcatcher.

However you might judge him as a writer, he shows us the hearts of real estate agents, car dealers, gas station owners, janitors, accountants, and many other salt-of-the-culture types (perhaps more significantly, he shows us how they perceive themselves), and the concern we feel for these folks permits us to overlook the illogics, the unwieldy plot devices, the repetitions, the supernatural flotsam and jetsam of desultorily imagined spooks and demons and creatures that crop up in his lesser novels, of which Dreamcatcher is surely one.