ABSTRACT
This chapter describes social dreaming in the context of contemporary interpersonal/relational psychoanalytic theory. It focuses on the "confusion" of dreams with a cross-cultural perspective on individual versus collectivist views of the self and apply dynamic systems theory to dreaming socially. The chapter presents a dream narrative from a social dreaming matrix that lends itself to the self-organizing emergence of meaning creation in a social context. Social dreaming demonstrates that the "real data" about what is actually going on in a social situation arises from the co-participation of dreams that are allowed to surface by listeners who share their dreams, and who allow themselves to associate freely to both dreams and associations. The dreams of a matrix tend to reflect elements of shared social experiences of the world as it actually exists and interconnections between the individuals present.
