Infinite possibilities of Social Dreaming

Abstract

Social Dreaming was discovered in the early 1980s at the Tavistock Institute in London. Social Dreaming devised a method whereby dreaming could be pursued by a set of people working together. This collection of people was termed a Matrix. The Social Dreaming Matrix mirrors, while awake and conscious, the matrix of the undifferentiated which operates during sleep. The Social Dreaming Matrix created a mental space at a conscious level which provided a container for the social unconscious to be addressed through dreaming and free association. A unity of unconscious thinking from the imaginary realm swamped the minds of the majority of the population. Dreaming has fascinated humans from the time they first learned to speak of the bizarre, strange, imaginary realm they entered while asleep. Social Dreaming engages the cultural aspects of dreaming. Human beings' cultural projections can be of two kinds; the benign and the destructive.