EFPP – European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Dear delegates and members of the EFPP,

We invite all of you to the Social Dream Matrix on Sunday evening. We are going to conduct the third of the three meetings of Social Dream Matrix (SDM) this coming Sunday, July 26th, 18:00pm London time, 19:00 pm CET and 20:00 Eastern European and Israel time.

Please forward this message to the members of your institutes. I received many emails from members of various institutes in different countries asking me for participating and not knowing about the dates and the time of our SDM meeting.

The Social Dreaming Matrix is therapeutically valuable. The richness of its perspectives, the act of listening to other people’s dreams, the abundance of associations, all help the individual relinquish his/her control and prominence and reach a different kind of depth.

It is apparent that many people are having vivid dreams during the pandemic carrying symbols, meanings and messages from our internal worlds and the collective in relation to the pandemic. We are going to have Social Dream Matrix where we share dreams and our associations to them, making connections where possible. No attempt is made to interpret the dreams for the dreamer. Through listening and responding to the dreams, in terms of how they affect us, we create a network of meanings, bridging the distance which lockdown puts between us. This gives us an opportunity to see how our dreams are bearing witness to the challenging realities of the strange time we are living through. The matrix will run for an hour, after which there will be 30 minutes time for processing, followed by general discussion, no previous experience of a dream matrix is required.