HISTORY of DREAM PILLOWS

Ancients Shamans and Natives, tell of herbs that were used to calm bad dreams, bring about good dreams, or quiet the restless sleeper.

Dream pillows were once called comfort pillows and were used in the sickroom to ease the nightmares that may come with medicine and the smell of illness. Relaxing herbs - primarily catnip, lavender and mugwort, combined in little pillows were respected for their usefulness in easing the sleep of crying babies.

Shamans and Healers believed that dreams carried messages from the Gods.