ABSTRACT
This chapter traces a personal journey exploring and giving voice to the dreams and associations arising from the Occupy London protest tent-city in St. Paul’s Square, London 2011/12 through the prism of social dreaming. The Occupy movement is an international socio-political movement against social and economic inequality and lack of “real democracy” around the world. The boundary between dreams and waking life seemed particularly permeable in the environment. A young man stayed one night at Finsbury Square and knew about the Social Dreaming Events there. Social dreaming is possible outside formal structures and can act to better inform our understanding and development of the discipline by creating a greater diversity of participants from across the social spectrum. Less formal locations may make an even safer space for participants as they will communicate from a space of their choosing rather than the more formal ones used in practice.
