oneironaut

/əʊˈnaɪɹənɔːt/

Etymology

From oneiro- + -naut.

oneironaut means A person who explores dream worlds, usually associated with lucid dreaming. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

ONEIRONAUT — [Noun] A person who deliberately navigates dream worlds, most often through the practice of lucid dreaming. From the Greek oneiros (“dream”) and nautēs (“sailor, navigator”). Unlike an oneirologist (who catalogs the terrain from the shore) or a lucid dreamer (who merely opens the door to find themselves inside), the oneironaut consciously embarks as an active cartographer of the interior. It is the nightly launching of a paper boat into a sea of shifting symbols, the deliberate testing of a phantom wall's texture, and the willful command to a dream sky to hold its sunset—the solitary traveler discovering that to map a country built of the self is to change its borders forever.

noun

A person who explores dream worlds, usually associated with lucid dreaming.“During a lucid dream it is possible for the dreamer (or “oneironaut,” as LaBerge puts it) to think reasonably clearly, remember the conditions of waking life and act voluntarily, all while remaining soundly, restfully asleep.”