ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the phenomenon of social dreaming and considers the relevant theories of dreaming in the light of the experience. The dream is always enlarging the space of the possible. Social dreaming takes place in a matrix. Erich Fromm wrote in The Forgotten Language that there were several approaches to the understanding of dreams. Wilfred Bion outlined his theory of thinking/dreaming through three functions: alpha functions, alpha-type elements, and beta-type elements. In the first social dreaming matrix in 1982 the hypothesis that it would be possible to dream socially was quickly established. The world is composed of an infinite number of social systems, in each of which there is the unattended parallel social system of free thoughts and dreams, unencumbered by logic. Every person who participates in these has dreams. They may be forgotten or regarded as so much junk mail, to be discarded.
