ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the phenomenology of the matrix in order to understand what happens to the self in Social Dreaming. It looks at the connection between self experience and free association and to ask what we mean when we talk about being real or 'true to ourselves'. The chapter utilizes the work of few psychoanalytical writers to elucidate the freedom and aliveness of mind, and its relation to the social, which is typical of the social dreaming matrix. In social dreaming, the focus is on the dream not the dreamer, on the infinite possibilities concealed in layered images of the world, images shared with others who can associate to the dream and who can dream in response to these original images. Psychoanalysis and social dreaming have one thing in common: that is the use of free association, highlighted by Freud as the essence and goal of psychoanalysis.
