“Anoche tuve un sueño, desde anoche, no dejo de mirar el río”: cosmological relationships in the dreams of the Kukama indigenous people (Peru)

Studies on dreams have been approached from psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology and linguistics, constituting a relevant documentary base for understanding different human groups. In the case of Latin America, in recent years, oneiric events have become relevant as an object of research based on the relationship that indigenous peoples have with dreams and how they experience and interpret them. Thus, the cosmologies of different peoples, such as those from the lowlands, hold that these dreams are everyday events. In the present study focuses on the dreams of the Kukama indigenous people of Peru, whose language belongs to the Tupi-Guarani family. Methodologically, this study uses ethnographic content analysis applied to 12 YouTube videos, produced by the indigenous Ucamara radio, which belongs to the Kukama. The main results show the ways in which the Amazonian cosmologies are represented through different space-time-ontological relationships in which humans and non-humans maintain constant affectations at night time. The main conclusions show that in dreams it is plausible to see, feel and talk with people in a common language for all and, depending on the dreamer, to perceive other bodily forms that humans and non-humans have beyond the present time.