ABSTRACT
Dream-work and Social Dreaming seem to afford a means to loosen the binding of the many attractors in the brain; they provide a door into the unknown/unconscious, both social and individual, where new thoughts can grow and are waiting to be found. A Creative Role Synthesis (CRS) opens with one volunteer who presents his or her puzzle/challenge to a small group of people who are currently part of the Social Dreaming Matrix. This chapter formulates the hypothesis that CRS draws its strength from sharing many traits with those archetypal models, whose language is so close to that of dreams. Both a CRS and the Social Dreaming Matrix which originates it, make mostly use of systemic thinking, which privileges common themes, links, and patterns; a methodology of thinking that comes closer to the language of the unconscious with its tendency towards one-ness and relatedness.
