Yes, investigation into the unknown enters the dream perhaps, and dreams, ime leak into reality especially with deja vu. I've been having dreams again where I am trying to get home, yet in waking life I know this is not real.. there is no home to go to again.. in a way, mere illusion. Perhaps to revisit… but I've done that… and these homes are not mine anyways - I've never seen them in the reality I speak in now.

Sometimes this feeling (if that) enters my dreams. Traveling mostly, but not sure where… and if it's something Jung used to talk about, like our basement subconscious archetypes .. and maybe not even from my own life in the dreams but another traveler, or time?
There is no way out of the dream perhaps
we are a dreamt character … and all maps out are simply ways back in, maybe? We can still investigate.
(Have more to add on last comment.. who is 'me' and who is reaching back or forward? The only way I used to make these experiences solid was to paint them, make them real. But yeah, might just be brain activity artifact.
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On previous comments above. I would indeed be more inclined to believe we are occupied via outside energies, or non physical beings that come here and live within us, or arrive in the womb.
Interesting you mention 'elseness.' I often use the word ISness, but perhaps allowing ourselves to have these traveling experiences (mentioned above), is part of the ISness as well… in seeking something outside of ourselves that could often reside within us. Out of our physical realm, that is. People have been attempting this for years.
We seek relief as young children even, trying to alter our consciousness in simply mere 'play'…. being on a merry go round, or swinging very high on a swing set. With addiction, for me it’s indeed about the body (+bio/psycho/social) … being in it 'seemingly' (from this viewpoint), that has historically wanted to escape human form.
Non duality (yet another belief system), might postulate it's a mental construct … or mere illusion. Also, The energy is there… in the body. Proof visually exists, even tho we can't see it. Most of us. There is a percentage of the body upon death that has not been accounted for yet. We just don't know. What’s that, where does it go, does it travel or just another story? Many stories one truth,,,, hmmm.
As far as astral traveling, I am wondering if more than 25 % as Monroe postulates having OBE (in modern terms), is true. Perhaps people just 'don't know' they are having the experience in delta sleep. Or better said, they don't remember.
I’ve had 2 of these astral type experiences, and I know they are real (what is real? true), as they were real 'to me' and that is valid. Subjective.
What is real and felt to the individual and 'happens' to them is an experience, so it's likely not to be false. Of course the mind 'can' exclude the experience, or interpret it as not happening distrusting the experience via relying on outside authorities, or feel like we are inherently flawed, different … might have some mental health disorder. Or, it's only
imagination. What is real asked the rabbit one day?
I've had dreams where I was flying about my house and over the ocean where I resided. The difference is in the dreams I didn't see my body, nor have a 'choice' - this is how I know the difference. In the OBE I could see my body on the bed as well as my cat sleeping there, and I was floating near the open window with the sun shining through as it began to rain. It
wasn't raining when I went to sleep. I almost left through the window, but I decided (choice), to go back into my body, as I didn't know if I left my physical self, if I could come back… When I awoke it was raining.
Then again there are pineal gland experiences and those that travel on drugs… outside induced traveling and it this considered real? And how is this tied into it happening without outside stimulation. Perhaps what is real isn't the physical. We give too much emphasis on this, but this is where we are at now.
I do recollect the movie Short Circuit, interesting metaphor.
Colin Wilson discusses how we are robots and need to be jerked out of this robotic state. To me this is genetics, conditioning in this lifetime. Survival mode… Perhaps a blocking out of the only… or consciousness, or
truth ought I say? A separating oneself from this life on earth. Coping in unhealthy fashion. I don't know but it's interesting to keep an open mind, as long as I don't lose myself as I know in my waking state of 'this' reality.
