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dreaming stage Hist. 
a tree platform used by Indians to commune with their special spirits during the ritual marking progress from puberty to manhood.
- 1955 They are the old dreaming stages. Once it was the custom in these parts for young men to build shelters for themselves in the trees when they reached puberty and here live without food or water for a week or until their special spirit or Bowakunak appeared to them.
- 1955 They are the old dreaming stages. Once it was the custom in these parts for young men to build shelters for themselves in the trees when they reached puberty and here live without food or water for a week or until their special spirit or Bowakunak appeared to them.