21st June 2026 Opening Social Dreaming Matrix
Introduction
Let’s Dream Together is a space for research and practice using the format of Social Dreaming.
The meeting on Sunday, June 21st, 2026, was the first social dreaming session of a series of six events online via Zoom. Seven participants from three continents (Asia, Europe, and the Americas) gathered on Zoom, spanning sixteen hours across different time zones.
Participants who joined early introduced themselves, sharing their locations and backgrounds. Some registered participants informed the host they were unable to make it due to technical difficulties or traveling issues.
The host explained the purpose and format of the gathering: the goal is to share dreams and hyper-associative content without immediate interpretation, fostering an environment of spontaneity and reverie. The final 15 minutes are dedicated to more explicit connections and interpretations.
The Matrix
Various dreams surfaced as soon as the host opened the Matrix session: a debate between a dreamer and Giordano Bruno about the Copernican Revolution; being driven by an elderly client to an airport that appeared to be a Victorian house; working with a young, biracial person who was the Secretary of State, whose gender was ever-switching and who felt insecure about their high position; a dream about needing help at a hospital, where staff in uniform rejected the request for assistance; dreams about losing control while driving, feeling disoriented about which direction is which, and fearing accidents; and a dream about time-traveling to a future Japan where the dreamer was unable to return to their original time, feeling disoriented despite having tour guides who wanted to help.
The dreams brought forward associations in a motion that was apparently turbulent but, in reality, quite on point. Themes of switching perspectives (binary identities and upside-down perspectives), identity, technology’s impact on humanity, and the paradox of human connection across distances were strong references to an image that began to crystallize among the participants: a Chinese noodle soup with different ingredients which together formed a unique identity and flavor.
Shamanism was an anchoring concept used to fasten the references of binary gender identities to a practice and a technology that spans the ages of humanity. A reference to celestial navigation, which works on the useful fiction that the Earth is the center of the universe, connected with the problem of Truth vs. Utility, a tension that does not necessarily belong to digital technology alone.
A persistent cyberpunk, Nipponic aesthetic, drawn from Japanese animation, video games, Blade Runner, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, served as the backdrop for the discussion on what it means to be human in a technologized world. Sadness about how technology is often used to benefit the wealthy (while leaving others with less) was also present, recalling grief over losing personal connections, experiences with suicide, and technology’s impact on human experiences. On the theoretical side, a reference to Marshall McLuhan’s concept of living in a digitally technologized world (akin to driving a car using only the rearview mirror, unable to see the present or future) connected with the dream images of disorientation and being swept away by the current of technology.
Reflection
In the final part, participants tried to connect what they experienced in the matrix with the immediate and extended social circumstances they live in.
The theme of technology stayed with the participants during the reflection, contrasting with calls for traditional wisdom. The image of a ship bound for the end of the world while the crew is partying and dancing roused the spirit of the participants and highlighted how both despair and hope can coexist. There was surprise at what a musical “soup” this small number of participants had created using technology (Zoom), and many expressed a feeling of connectedness during the Matrix that contrasts with other environments where anxiety, sadness, and exclusion are more prominent.
The host thanked the participants for sharing their dreams and associations and for being open to the experience of Social Dreaming, inviting them to continue the journey in the upcoming sessions of the series.
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