ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the potential of a predictive capability in social dreaming and the practical implications of the dream as premonition. The synagogue was a recurrent object in the dreams, as was the monastery, church, temple, or theatre, each of which to some extent represented the matrix. The work of Charlotte Beradt in prewar Germany shows that Jewish people were dreaming of their fate a long time before the "final solution". Perhaps, when someone dreamed about the psychosis of being torn apart in a third world country, they were dreaming about reality. There are some societies in which the sharing of dreams is illegal and risks imprisonment. The specificity of the imagery in the dreams is remarkable but the wider context of a growing crisis was also being dreamed. In The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud stated that "A dream is a fulfilment of a wish".
