Dreams & Beyond: Finding Your Way in the Dark

by madhu-tandan

It’s now a scientific fact that each of us has a minimum of four dreams every night. During the course of our lives, then, we enter into our dream world half a million times. So what significance can we ascribe to this substantial part of our existence?Dreams are no longer uncharted territory; they’ve been extensively researched and described by neurobiologists and psychologists, the ancients and the moderns. Here, Madhu Tandan outlines the diverse understandings of our dreams and presents a comprehensive spectrum of the dreaming mind. She explores specific experiences, such as a doctor puzzling over a difficult diagnosis and the clues that were offered to him in a dream, a young woman’s resistance to marriage and a dream that made her change course, and a boy’s sexual awakening and the process reflected in his dream. These examples aren’t merely personal accounts with issues relating only to the dreamer—they address fundamental conflicts common to virtually every human being.This book also shows how dreams have changed the course of history and have made major breakthroughs in science. Yes, dreams have changed the world! By synthesizing research and theory, Dreams & Beyond balances the perspectives of science, psychology, parapsychology, and spirituality, providing an increasingly complete picture of what your dreams mean. It impels you to confront the bounds of rational thought and dares you to set out on the most magical of all journeys . . . to know who you really are.For all its exploration into the range of the dreaming mind, this is a deeply personal book, imbued with Madhu’s affirmative experiences in the realm of dreams and her passionate belief that to understand dreams is to understand ourselves and our significant and secretly ordered universe. This is within the reach of each one of us—all we need to do is uncover our dreams.

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 25, 2008