Where Do Dreams Go When You Speak Them?

You may not have heard of Dreamweaving before. It’s a niche practice. A strange and subtle and beautiful one.

A group of people sit together, online or in person, and speak their dreams (and associations to those dreams) into the space. Dreams from the night before, dreams from childhood…no trying to make sense, or explain, just allowing. Afterwards, there’s a period of reflection, where we think together about what has emerged, and begin to integrate the dive we have taken beneath the surface of waking life.

This work is based on a method called Social Dreaming, developed in the 1980s by Gordon Lawrence, a social scientist at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. It offers a way of working with dreams that is not interpretive or analytic, but relational, imaginal, and alive.

“It is the dream, not the dreamer, that is the subject of the Matrix.”
– Gordon Lawrence

In these sessions, we gather and speak dreams aloud—fragments, images, full stories or connected images, symbols and experiences. As Lawrence put it, we approach each dream “as if it had never existed before,” like picking up a pebble on a beach.
We notice it.
Bring it into our orbit.
Appreciate its texture.
And somehow, join the flow.

Dreams in this space are not seen as private messages from our private world. They are more like energy landscapes. Places we walk through and explore together.

It’s important to remember: Dreams are not fully conscious or unconscious. They are liminal—like a beach, neither fully land nor sea. They speak the language of the in-between. When children play they disappear into the same kind of in-between, and as adults turning towards our dreams is like stepping into a sandbox where we get to:

• Build memory

• Practice action

• Try things out

• Rehearse new ways of being

• Choose future pathways in a safe place (while sleeping)

If you’re curious about what I’m describing, then maybe what matters most is how it feels to take part in a Dreamweaving—and what you might walk away with.

Here’s how some past participants have described the experience:

“The most vulnerable and authentic sharing experience I’ve ever lived. Sharing our dreams in such a way allowed me to connect to my deep feelings and desires far beyond any shame or fear.”
— A. J.

“The revelation didn’t just come through me talking about my own dreams. It was the weaving of others’ dreams that surfaced the bigger depths of my reality... I experienced one of the biggest shifts of my life.”
— T. E.

“Dreamweaving taught me that there is a vast, subtle, imaginal world. I have fallen more deeply in love with this place.”
— K. D.

“There is nothing to hold onto. Sometimes all you meet is a sense, or a fragment. It’s like wading through deep water. This has opened parts within me that longed to be remembered.”
— R. K.

This Friday evening (May 23rd) I’m holding a new in-person event in London: DREAMWEAVE x SOUNDBATH
It’s a completely unique collaboration with sound healer Ali Bolton—a rare convergence of dreamwork and vibration, woven together in real time.

There are just 4 tickets left.

🌀 You can read more here and book your place using this link ⬇️

And if you’re not in London—or this week is already full—I’ll be holding monthly Community Dreamweaving Sessions online throughout the summer (June, July, August), on Monday evenings from 7:30–9:00PM.

So where do dreams go when you speak them?
They become part of the shared field.
They shift your centre of gravity.
And they ripple outward—like a forgotten truth being remembered by the world.