ABSTRACT
The matrix is the name of the space in which social dreaming takes place; it is composed of people, numbering, say, 6 to 60, who meet for the purpose of using free association on the dreams given to the matrix by participants. The matrix is used to capture the space of thinking and free associations. It is a space that mirrors, while awake, the space of dreaming while asleep, giving rise to images, metaphors, analogues, and symbols. The matrix symbolizes the space between mothers and babies where thinking has its origin in the cultural space between them. To launch social dreaming and to be able to explore dream, it was necessary to unlearn all that was known of group and to create a feeling and thinking space—matrix—which would be open-ended. Social dreaming depends on free association and amplification to fulfil its primary purpose.
