ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on some of the experiences of the Australian Social Dreaming Matrix during 1993, and highlights that what is reported has grown out of an evolving experience of social dreaming in a matrix that continued in the same format for three years. Dreams in psychoanalysis are regarded as the dreams of a patient, and "meaning" is usually sought in the dynamics of transference within a two-person relationship. The nature of the interpretation will depend on many things—among them, an interpretative framework that includes the assumption that the dream is a dream of a patient. Similarly, in analytic psychology C. G Jung developed theories about the collective unconscious and how dreams can be interpreted according to a theory of archetypes. The shift in social dreaming is away from ownership or possession of a dream and one's ego connection with it, though indubitably a dream is dreamed by a dreamer and dreams have individual significance.
