Oneironauts Can we control our dreams?

If we put the term “onironauts” in our Internet search engine, you will find a large number of forums and groups where various people come together not only to explain their experiences regarding dreams. You will also discover the guidelines that these people follow to initiate others, in the supposed control of dreams.

It is something complex and a topic that requires diverse points of view to be understood. Behind this aspiration, other wills are also hidden. There are perspectives that give us to understand, for example, that the world of dreams puts us in contact with another plane where life perhaps acquires a deeper meaning. This is not intended to imply that dream life is valued more than real life, not at all.

It is a way of complementing vital knowledge, perhaps entering into that fabric of archetypes and hidden meanings that Gustav Jung already told us about in his “collective unconscious.” QBut let’s look at this topic in more detail.

HOW CAN WE CONTROL OUR DREAMS?

Oneironauts introduce us to so-called “lucid dreams”. We have spoken to you on occasion about them in our space, and, as you already know, they are those moments when suddenly, we are aware that we are dreaming. Surely something has happened to youez. In the early hours of the morning, for example, when we are almost about to wake up and you are still surrounded by a dream, however you are already aware that what surrounds you is not real, and then you have the opportunity to move the threads at their own will.

It also usually happens when we suffer a nightmare. There comes a moment when an inner voice tells us: “don’t worry, it’s not real, it’s just a dream.” It is precisely this feeling of control within the dimension of unconsciousness that can allow us to be authentic oneironauts. It would therefore be a matter of exercising fair and precise control in these waking phases. There are various methods to achieve this, but as these people explain, we can differentiate two types of categories within oneironauts:

-Authentic oneironauts: They are people who have always had “this gift”. Without knowing how or why they have always managed to exert control over their dreams spontaneously, without training. Since childhood they have managed to master, without realizing it, some phases of their dreams to live experiences that they themselves wanted.

-Onironauts by learning: Authentic gurus and people who simply wanted to develop this skill as a curiosity and way of experiencing new paths would fall into this category. There is a belief within those personalities with more spiritual and mystical tendencies, that they relate this ability to so-called astral travel, with that way of approaching a more intimate and elevated type of knowledge. Then, there are people who, as we say, only start this practice out of mere curiosity and to do so, they try to fall asleep thinking about achieving a lucid dream, about having control from the first moment one closes one’s eyes and falls asleep. sleep.

But what is true then behind this phenomenon of oneironauts? Just one more way to enter that always interesting dimension of dreams, that world where, as Carl Gustav Jung explained to us, humanity has a forgotten common knowledge, a wisdom inscribed behind several archetypes only accessible through the dream world. If this helps us to know ourselves better, to respect each other knowing that we all have the same fears, the same anxieties, desires and inner beauties, then it is a path that is worth it. Curiosity is always respectable, and dreams are a challenging path to one day understand in a better way.

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