ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the implications of framing processes for sharing dreams as “social”, through inquiry based in action research. In newly emerging fields of discourse, many questions may naturally arise regarding the developing epistemological basis. The social dreaming literature has identified action research as appropriate for researching social dreaming. Published action research studies on social dreaming, however, are few. W. G. Lawrence’s development of the ideas and practice of social dreaming took place within the context of his own work at the Tavistock and this is the form of action research he envisaged as his eighth “working hypothesis” for social dreaming. The inter-disciplinary position seemed nonetheless to offer the potential to bring together thinking from the edges of different disciplines, including literature and surrealism, into social dreaming research. The chapter examines the binary distinctions of dominant discourses that separate dream and wakefulness.
