Queer Social Dream Matrix

Join the Queer Dream Matrix online next Wednesday 20th May. 6:30-8:30 GMT. We’ll let dreams and associations arrive, allowing them to tune us in to the collective moment. Free and welcoming. Dm or email [email protected] for the link. Hans Richter, (1947). ‘Dreams that money can buy’.

Dreams as friends. Dreams as responsibilities. Join our next Queer Dream Matrix online on Wednesday 20th May. 6:30-8:30 GMT. We’ll let dreams and associations arrive, allowing them to tune us in to the collective moment. Free and welcoming. Dm or email [email protected] for the link. Donna Gottschalk, (1969). ‘Oak, Robin, Binky, Chris and I, Baby Dykes, E. 9th Street, New York, 1969’ Wall text by Hélèn Giannecchini at the exhibition We Other at The Photographers Gallery, London.

Not sure how to face the violence in the world around us in this moment? Let’s turn to the queer resource of our dreams, day dreams, and the dreamlike to connect us to our collective reality. Join our next Queer Dream Matrix next Wednesday, 15th April, 6:30-8:30pm (GMT) at The MayDay Rooms, London. Dm or email [email protected] to RSVP. This is a space for queer and trans people to explore our dreams for their collective and social meanings. Free and welcoming. Come and see what dreams and associations emerge from the connections between us. We’ll be finding a queer resource in the unruly, the nocturnal, and the illogical.  Sasha Gordon, (2024). ‘It was still far away.’

February’s matrix was a “bloody valentine”. Love and lovers offered sweet slow connection while rabbits bred across our dreams. We doodled while we dreamt. Gunge spread through and between us. Jelly, lava, and blood, goo filled the matrix. We wondered if this “thick air” was a buffer and protection from the current world, or if it could be like an ultrasound gel or the jelly of an eye allowing us to see through and into our reality. Our next dream matrix is on Wednesday 15th April, 6:30-8:30pm (GMT) at the MayDay Rooms, EC4Y 1DH. Email [email protected] to RSVP or to join the mailing list.

This month, join us for a special dreaming matrix event hosted within Antonia Luxem’s exhibition ‘On Falling’ at the Koppel Project Annex in Elephant and Castle. We will gather inside the installation, which is conceived as a dream incubation chamber: a red-lit, snail-like space combining film, sound, painting and performance.  Saturday 14th March, 11am - 1pm at at the Koppel Project Annex, 1 Tiverton Street, SE1 6NT. If you’d like to attend, please RSVP by emailing [email protected]@ or by DM. This is a workshop for queer and trans people to explore our dreams for their collective and social meanings. Free and welcoming. Come and see what dreams and associations emerge from the space, finding a queer resource in the unruly, the nocturnal, and the illogical.  *** On Falling explores falling as a sustained, cyclical state of renewal. Drawing on Luxem’s engagement with dreams, hypnosis and altered states – and mythic descents from Sisyphus to Dante – the exhibition traces the oscillation between dreaming, disorientation, and heightened attention, unlocking the potential for transformation and re-worlding. Exhibition photographs: Tegrid Cartwright, 2026

Doodle dream matrix this Wednesday, 25th Feb. 6:30-8:30pm (GMT). At our next dream matrix we’ll be doodling, sketching and drawing alongside our dreams. Join us on zoom where we’ll share dreams and associations as usual. You’re also invited to have paper and drawing materials to hand. There will be an opportunity to share our drawings but no expectation. Dm or email [email protected] for the link. Images: Louise Bourgeois, (1994-95). ‘The Insomnia Drawings’.

We’re pushing this Wednesday’s matrix back a week. Join us on Zoom on Wednesday 25th February, 6:30-8:30pm (GMT). DM or email [email protected] for the link. Free and welcoming. A space for LGBTQ+ people to explore our dreams as social and collective tools. Our gatherings usually involve a mix of regular attendees and first timers - new voices are always welcome.

Our January matrix was full of disgust, as both a queer weapon and an infiltrating threat. We thought about rot as romantic and the privilege of being in the bodily muck of care for the people and animals in our lives. There was a dream of falling in love with a beautiful pink pig and of swimming in dirty holy water. Our dreams accompanied us across the threshold of the new year. There was death and dying, sea surges and storms. Thoughts about the fire horse of the new lunar year and how to meet the action required of us in this moment. Our next matrix will be on Zoom on Wednesday 19th February, 6:30-8:30pm (GMT). DM or email [email protected] for the link.

dreamXchange Guided Session #9 – Social Dreaming Through Sound with the Queer Social Dreaming Matrix Collective on Sunday the 8th of February 2026, 8:00–10:00 pm CET. Join us for a social dreaming matrix, featuring a collaborative soundscape compiled from recordings of your everyday lives*. This workshop will be hosted by Becca & Iggy, two members of the Queer Social Dreaming Matrix collective @queerdreammatrix . Founded in 2016, QSDM holds free monthly gatherings, online and in various London venues, for the queer and trans community to share dreams and explore their potential as a queer resource. People of all identities are welcome at this workshop. *Upon RSVP, you will be sent guidelines for how to submit your 30-second recording to be included in the matrix (link in the bio). All sessions are held as online voice-chat on the 0ct0p0s Discord server (link in the bio). More information: 0ct0p0s.net/dreamXchange-Guided-Sessions

Start the year with some creative collective thinking. Come and share dreams, images, associations and memories. We’ll link them together to build a picture of the collective moment we’re living in. Our next Queer Dream Matrix at the Mayday Rooms in London. Thursday January 15th, 7-9pm (GMT). 88 Fleet St, London EC4Y 1DH. Free and welcoming. A space for LGBTQ+ people to explore our dreams as social and collective tools. DM or email [email protected] to RSVP. Image: ‘Surrealist exhibition’, New York, (1942). #queerdreams #socialdreaming #dreammatrix

Dreams full of texture and sensation. Dreams that linger on fingertips or when you close your eyes. Dreams that are hard to describe. Our next Queer Dream Matrix will be at the Mayday Rooms in London, Thursday January 15th, 7-9pm (GMT). And our next online matrix will be on Wednesday 18th February, 6:30-8:30pm (GMT). Free and welcoming. A space for LGBTQ+ people to explore our dreams as social and collective tools. DM or email [email protected] to join the mailing list.

Wondering what the Queer Dream Matrix is? What it feels like? What dreams we’ve been having? We’ve finally made a website and blog, documenting the dream experiments we’ve been offering this year. Link in bio. Check it out if you’ve been wanting to come for a while but not been sure what to expect. Check it out for dreamy writing and collective meaning making. Check it out to see if you can spot a dream you shared. You can join our next Queer Dream Matrix at the MayDay Rooms in London or Online on Wednesday 19th November, 6:30-8:30pm (GMT). Dm or email [email protected] to RSVP.