The term "vision quest" is normally used to describe a Plains Indian ritual. Amongst Native American tribes of the Plains culture area, a teenage boy's and sometimes a girl's initiation consisted of going into the wild alone, and fasting and praying for a few days until a precise kind of dream or vision occurred. In a normal vision quest, the one who wants to have the vision would pray to God and “invoke the forces of the cosmos.” Most of the time, with fasting and prayer, the person that undertakes the vision quest’s senses would become very good. Then he or she would have, in a dream, a visit from a weird figure, either animal, human, or spirit, who would offer the teenager teachings and give them a symbol that would take the form of an
