medicine dream

noun

In Native American culture, a dream in which the dreamer experiences direct communication with the spirit world and is granted an individual medicine or spirit-being.

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nounmedicine dream (plural medicine dreams)

plural medicine dreams

  1. In Native American culture, a dream in which the dreamer experiences direct communication with the spirit world and is granted an individual medicine or spirit-being.

    Smoke Rising felt the embarrassment that was suddenly in the lodge at the mention of a medicine dream.

    1951, Dorothy M. Johnson, Warrior's Exile; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 61
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