Chiu Chi-chien, an anthropologist who specializes in the ancient society and culture of the Bunun people of Taiwan, has written that a Bunun could voluntarily choose to learn the shaman's craft, or could be instructed by a shaman in a dream.
研究台灣古代布農族的社會與文化的人類學者丘其謙則曾為文指出，布農族的巫師可以自行拜師學巫，也可能夢見過世的巫師前來傳授法術，分別稱為師巫與夢巫。