ABSTRACT
Social dreaming has a pure form rather like the platonic idea of forms—‘pure’ social dreaming. This social dreaming matrix was pointing to its own nature. The form is a symbol which is not known but has infinite possibilities. Lawrence has referred to social dreaming introducing thinking to the infinite. The infinite has many ‘moments’ where something can be suddenly understood and then one moves on. S. Freud was concerned with how the dream elaborated a symptom in the individual patient, whereas Jung, though interested in this, concentrated on the ways in which the dream opened up the possibility of discovering a lived ‘meaning’ in the individual’s collective experience. When one embarks on a social dreaming matrix one is invited to be in the presence of wonder. The Social Dreaming project assumes that the dreams in a matrix belong to the collective.
