ABSTRACT
Most dreamers were festival goers. Ages ranged from 19 to 75 and participants included writers, teachers, farmers, students, housewives, counsellors, booksellers and various business activities. The dream matrixes suggested a changing climate in the world, ambivalent, menacing, suffused with paranoia and yet mindlessly oblivious. The synchronicity of these grandmother dreams is remarkable. After the failure of male authority, we find the grandmothers trapped across time, the carriers of memory and wisdom; older women who are powerless and unheeded in a society where youth and masculinity as are seen as the primary agencies of knowledge. However, the disturbing imagery of the first dream of the morning remained vividly present in the matrix. Dreamers emphasised the value of the shared experience itself, which creates an “opening up” of the unthought and leads to a flowering of the mind that is the essence of the creative.
