«I have traveled a lot in my dreams. They have taken me across the Atlantic and also through the Amazon». Oneirics territories from the Kukama indigenous people

This article analyzes the dream narratives of the Kukama indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon as accounts that reveal cosmological territorial interactions between «peoples» (human and non-human) across the vast Kukama indigenous territory. Challenging the dreamwakefulness dichotomy, the study proposes the concept of «oneiric territory» as a habitable extension where the spirit travels and negotiates with diverse alterities (plantbeings, masters of the land, and ancestors). Through an ethnographic content analysis, the dual dimension of dreaming is examined: first, as a school for acquiring technical and healing knowledge, and second, as a zone of risk characterized by ontological vulnerability to capture or seduction by other entities. The study concludes that dreaming constitutes a space-time where the Kukama being extends their social and cosmological fabric to establish indispensable diplomatic relations with non-humans, visiting both their own territories and new places inhabited by other peoples. These processes of dialogue and cosmological alliances are integral to the ecological-social balance and the constitution of the Kukama personhood.