Los AtrapaSueños

Since I´ve been in San Pedro, I´ve noticed these amazing dreamcatchers everywhere. They´re in all of the hotels, the restaurants, the schools, hanging from the trees on the street. They´re really interesting, unique dreamcatchers, three dimensional with different shapes and colors and sizes.

I have been asking around town, trying to find out who makes the beautiful dreamcatchers (or in español, ¨los atrapasueños¨). I had told a few people I was looking for the guy who makes them, who I found out is named Alejandro, and I knew eventually I´d meet him. It´s a small town, one way or another you meet everyone you´re looking for if you´re here long enough.

Today, as I was leaving Spanish class, a guy was sitting on the curb right outside my school... he had a couple of dreamcatchers and feathers and string and beads... I say to him, you must be Alejandro, and I tell him I´ve been looking for him because I want to learn the craft. He tells me he didn´t know why he decided to sit in front of the school that day, but that some energy caused him to stop there. Interesting, I think... some force brought us together today, and tomorrow I will learn how to make dreamcatchers. Alejandro learned from his father, who happens to be a local Mayan shaman.

I´m enjoying my time here in San Pedro. Interesting encounters such as these don´t happen just anywhere.