It is now clear we can capitalize this space, but it is not as clear how we can live in it. Cyberspace changes and mutates faster than our normal cultural means for understanding it. Old notions of identity, presence, national alliance and concrete reality dissolve in multiple cyber-identities, remote yet intimate interactions and virtual alliances. It is almost like we have learned how to collectively dream together. Dreamwork is a loose collection of practices used by both clinical and non-clinical groups interested in exploring dreams.
Some people become dreamworkers through recording and keeping a journal.
Other dreamworkers use dreams for complex therapeutic and spiritual reasons. Others allow the dream imagery to lead them into personal and social transformations. In 1994 a dream sharing community formed online called Electric Dreams. The initial formation of Electric Dreams explored different ways the Internet could be used for dreamwork and dream sharing. The members were unhappy with the superficial conversations taking place on the open bulletin board format of the Usenet Newsgroup, alt.dreams, and began exploring alternatives.