ABSTRACT

This chapter explores some aspects of social dreaming related to the concepts of matrix, connectedness, and "dreams in search of a dreamer". A social dreaming matrix has two strong characteristics: one is that it allows the individual to come very close to the experience of dreaming itself; the other is that it allows the discovery of what a matrix is about—in other words, it is in a process of becoming, it captures the mobility of the process. Gordon Lawrence himself puts forward the hypothesis that "dream-work is a wave function and that when a dream emerges from the black hole of the psyche, it is a particle". In social dreaming, Lawrence has brought together traditional knowledge about dreams and the discoveries of psychoanalysis, which at the beginning of the twentieth century revealed a new way of thinking about the nature and use of dreams.