ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Social Dreaming in relation to the social unconscious in the context of South Africa's transition to democracy, marked by its first ever democratic election in 1994. Social Dreaming, as developed by W. Gordon Lawrence, in revealing strands of the social unconscious may also be an adjunct to social change. Dreams can also throw light on the unconscious processes at work in a whole society. Social Dreaming Matrices have often been found to reveal shared unconscious meanings among participants when convened as part of a conference or symposium on a particular theme. The dream above gives a flavour of the imprints in the social unconscious of following through with the hard work of consolidating and developing South Africa's young democracy; of accepting and moving beyond the confusion, conflicts, terror, violence, and disappointments, pausing for inspiration and pursuing the task.
