In traditional Innu families, dreams have a great importance. Certain dreams when a person feels the symbols and ones’ feelings towards them merit to be examined, may contain signs that could be applied in real life. Where to install a winter campsite to have a constant supply of venison? If the dream place is full of sadness and suffering, that would indicate not install the campsite there. There could be starvation. In the opposite, if there are joy and laughter in the place appearing in the dream, winter will be easier there.
We should never disregard how we feel when we wake up after a dream. Associated with different symbols that appeared in the dream, the feeling will allow to evaluate many warning signs to apply in everyday life. In Blue Eagle’s blog, there is an article talking about the interpretation of signs and dreams. It says that the symbols in our dreams are influenced by our life experience and that the best person to analyze those symbols are ourselves.
Different books and internet publications can help us understand symbols. But we have to be able to remember our dreams. To do so, when we wake up, we can write them down, as well as the feeling we had seeing those symbols. That way, we can adapt what is experienced in an unconscious state and bring that to the conscious state of mind.
First Nation people and many other aboriginals in the world, especially chamans, sometimes used specific herbs to help be more aware and conscious in the dream. Juniper and mugworth, as Blue Eagle says in his videos on Youtube about traditional smudging, helps when it is burned in the bedroom before sleep, or put mugwort fresh in the sleeper’s pillow. Symbols and associated feelings will thus often be remembered.
Chiiyaam, as well as having purification qualities, contains juniper and lavender. Sprayed on the pillow before sleep, we have the benefits of negative energies being purified and it will have a calming effect to promote peaceful sleep. It also helps to remember dreams. This perfume is made of high quality essential oils and plant extracts.
