It is now a scientific fact that we have a minimum of four dreams every night and that in the course of our lives we enter our dream worlds half a million times. Such a substantial part of our lives, therefore, deserves proper interpretation. In Dreams and Beyond, Madhu Tandan draws on neuroscience, psychology, parapsychology and spirituality to provide a picture of what our dreams could mean. By synthesising research, theory, and people's dream experiences, she challenges the bounds of rational thought and inspires us to interpret our dream-lives and uncover who we really are.
This book also explores the significance our dream worlds. Some of her examples include: a doctor puzzling over a difficult diagnosis and the clues offered to him in a dream; a young woman's resistance to marriage and a dream that made her change course; a boy's sexual awakening and the process reflected in his dream. These are not merely private dreams with issues specific to the dreamer, they address conflicts to which virtually every human being can relate. And alongside this exploration into the full range of the dreaming mind is the author's own experiences and her passionate belief that to understand dreams is to understand ourselves and our secretly ordered universe.
