The series of Social Dreaming Let’s Dream Together restarted Saturday 29th August 2020 after a break of almost 3 months.
This was the sixth meeting of the series that welcomed more than 25 participants from countries such as Austria, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, Spain, U.K., USA which were able/forced to connect via the Zoom formula due to the ongoing pandemic. So far the number of participants at each installment varied from a minimum of 8 to a maximum of 14.
The series is called “experiment in Social Dreamings” because in every new event we try to change and tweak little part of the Social Dreaming methodology to see how this influences the experience. In this latest installment we introduced a short version of a Yoga Nidra guided meditation between the Matrix and the Reflection.
THE MATRIX
Hosts: Marianne Larochelle, Fabio Brunazzi
A dream of being in front of a classroom while pregnant without knowing the reason starts the Matrix. Another dream connects, with the visit to a fertily clinic for a pregnancy therapy in downtown NYC.
Grandma in the kitchen, the dreamer question her presence in the dream as she was already passed showing a hint of lucidity.
Another dream in the Grandmother’s old house. Separated family is reunited, for a second there was a reconstitution, everything was back to normal, couldn’t walk the door…
Another dreams tells of a person carrying a child. They try to reach a car that is leaving, and the only option is flying to the car holding the baby.
A dream where the protagonist and the Dalai Lama climbing a building /mountain connects with learning to fly: there is pleasure in learning, in moving, in playing.
Flying prompt an association with a song by Neil Young:
Associations start to link around birth and death, memories of family member dying, skeleton like features, medical treatment of birth and death and how hard it is today to be born and die naturally, without the intervention of medicine that treat everything as a disease.
Another dream brings us in the streets where there is a sound difficult to hear coming from a radio playing. A couple is dancing to the music. Sometimes is difficult to hear the voice of dreams.
A series of dreams about clothes we don’t want to wear, white sneaker that don’t represent the dreamer, protest the abuse, fight back.
Association of a 7yr old daught who would put on anything she doesn’t want no matter what, she will physically fight.
Wedding church, a child refuses to put on a dress, everyone else is dressed up, then the moment comes that she decide that she can put on the good dress.
Very big mansion where the was a conference group and the mansion was at the tip of the hill it was very sunny, this balcony was completely, buganville, talk to this woman, we were having the same dress as her, and she was pregnant an not me, I looked like a was a cheap copy of her and imitate her…
Association: Buganville, bright beautiful shiny, sharp thorns, that’s the best bush to plant as defense…
Do we fit? Do we accept the label? Is this even Social Dreaming or what else? What clothes are ours?
Association, I don’t write be able to write it or riding the horse…
A dream of a horse escaping to go visit a mare. Dreamer never knew how to control and ride a horse, need help from the horse’s owner…
Horse , association with horse rescue association, old unwanted horses repurposed for therapy with people with trauma.
YOGA NIDRA
Marianne Larochelle guides the matrix through a Yoga Nidra experience where we are invited to relax deeply and get back to our body before goin into a break.
REFLECTION
A lot of feeling, desires, belonging to the individual sphere rather than the social/collective realm manifest during the reflection and were allowed by the host. They are not taken back to the Matrix and moved the reflection into the group itself, particularly about the use of Social Dreaming. This leads to the emergence of desires to be contained and the emergence of fears and powerful emotions.
Are we achieving something or are we barely skimming the surface? is there a “Malaise” crossing through the matrix?
By coming from very different countries and backgrounds we have barely anything in common, it is hard to find a common ground. Do we inhabit a shared social environment or instead we belong to many isolated bubbles? The team of pixels at ion, fragmentation of the Zoom experience emerge in a past Matrix of the series.
Social Dreaming seem to force association onto the social happenings thwarting the potential for generating new thoughts. The Covid Supernova seem to act as an attractor which does not allow attention to escape, even when dreams and association seem to lead elsewhere, suggest that there is more to the media induced content.
The Zoom environment makes us dependent on our Technology, the quality of the connection, the fear of being cut-off from the Matrix, the desire to unload our burdens.
The desire to be back in the same room instead of Zoom Matrix arise.
As happening with Hurricane Laura in the US: is there a storm about to unleash destructive forces onto the building of Social Dreaming?
The presence of a Malaise is counteracted by the many reference to birth and pregnancy. Is Social Dreaming dying to be reborn? Are we onto something?