Oscar Wilde quipped that the most frightening words in the English language are 'I had a very interesting dream last night'.

As Run-Riot's resident narcoleptic,I'm pretty excited about this- The Salon will be asking us to tell them all about our dreams (wake up, Oscar), as they stage their own social dreaming matrix, a method to loosen the possessive ties we have over our dreams and place them in a much broader context.

This is an idea with ancient lineage. In fact, long before Freud and Jung even had beards, dreams and dreaming had great significance in many ancient societies and civilisations, and were used to understand the meaning of their lives and the world around them. The matrix acts as a conduit that receives shared aspects of the group's dreams and amplifies them as a means of exploring their context and uncovering the common cultural themes within.

Originally conceived by W. Gordon Lawrence, an organisational consultant at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, it has been honed to perfection by others throughout the world, and we are beyond lucky to have Jungian practioners Helen Morgan and Penny Pickles, world-experts in the convening of a matrix to lead us through Salon's own.

Helen and Penny explain. 'The primary task of the Social Dreaming Matrix is to share dreams and to associate to one's own and other participants' dreams, so as to make links and find connections. Such a perspective regards dreams as more than the private possession of the dreamer and suggests that, by exploration in a social context through free association and amplification, your Salon dream exploration experience may edge your conscious, finite understanding further into the unconscious infinite.' And if you're left scratching your head, wondering what the hell's going on, don't worry - BAFTA winning animator Greg McCleod will be on hand to interpret the results of our matrix, drawing our dream archetypes as we go, and creating a beautiful film of our shared experience.

As this is a super special Salon, there is a limited number of Saloners we can open up the dream matrix up to, but we really want you to be there.

 There is no need to bring or remember your dreams, the matrix is only interested in your subconscious so don't leave that on the tube.