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This chapter introduces the reader to the principal features of social dreaming, how to organise a social dreaming matrix session, the post-matrix session, and how to collect and use the data when using social dreaming in research. It discusses the purpose, sources and briefly the theory of social dreaming. Finally, the chapter summarises the derivatives of social dreaming in use today.
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I am not sure about the fact of this story of the horse. However, it is a good example of how in social dreaming we are not concerned with veracity in an objective sense. What matters is how this was spoken and presented in the context of the matrix.
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Manley, J. (2018). How It All Began. In: Social Dreaming, Associative Thinking and Intensities of Affect. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92555-4_1
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