ABSTRACT
Nearly a hundred years ago, Freud carved a passage through social resistance to paying serious attention to dreams by recognizing them as highly precious media carrying valid psychosocial meaning. He made dreams acceptable and available for two-person investigations in the analytic space. Sharing dreams in the analytic process became known as "the royal road to the unconscious"—a formidable and indispensable instrument for uncovering and understanding transference and countertransference processes and possible ways of elaboration. Initially we have all struggled with the idea that the group of social dreamers is not to be considered a group in the traditional sense: the boundaries around it are not definite. In the social dreaming matrix, dreams acquire such a transitional nature; they became the mind-objects that make members of the matrix experience the direct continuity with the play area of the small child who is lost in play.
