ABSTRACT
Social dreaming (SD) is a methodology developed by Gordon Lawrence in the 1980s. SD is a tool of action research on social and collective processes. It is a tool of cultural enquiry and evolution, coherent with what W. R. Bion affirms about the function of psychoanalysis: that is, to be a probe that enlarges the field it explores. SD takes the Sphinx perspective and focuses on the nature of the dreaming/thinking that human contexts produce. Dreaming is the human way to access the unconscious with its unique logic. SD opens a way of thinking of the infinite by accessing the subliminal mental life and the connections that people have in social systems. The dream reflection group makes use of pieces of knowledge gathered from conscious and unconscious thinking and from different domains of knowledge, which, during the matrix, became linked. These new particles of knowledge can be used to formulate new working hypotheses.
