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This charmingly refreshing book offers a peep into the world of dreams — how dreams impinge on real life and can unlock healing powers, charting life towards a new course. The book unravels the inexorable journey into dreams that, as psychologist Calvin Hall says, are successions of images, predominantly visual in quality, which are experienced during sleep. It touches on interesting questions like whether animals dream and if all dreams are monochromatic or suffused with colours. Precognitive dreams, telepathic dreams, recurring dreams, past life dreams, mystic experience, Tibetan dream yoga, dream incubation during which the unconscious answers the queries, corporate dreams with their accent on power and pelf, and even nightmares — all are discussed without taking recourse to psychological jargon. The author, who is an expert in behavioural science and management education, draws heavily on dream workshops conducted in corporate milieu. Though the tone of the book is non-theoretical, the works of tripod of dream analyses — Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Fritz Perls — find a mention. And the Gestalt dream work of Perls, who famously said that every person in the dream, every object in the dream is you, is explained at length. Dreams are not just disparate images that flit across mind during sleep. They have connectivity with your waking life and often hold the key to your pressing problems. Menezes suggests seven methods to interpret dreams. And the underlying assumption in the methods is that the dreamers are the best interpreters of their dreams. Keeping a dream journal
and trying to befriend the "inner orphan" to transform
negative energy into a creative resource for healing, as dream therapist
Ann Sayre Wiseman says, is helpful in walking (rather waking) through
the maze of life. Well, if you have a proclivity for looking within and
exploring all frontiers of self with open mind, the book is just for
you. |
SELF-help
books usually come with a baggage of promise and expectation. More often
than not they turn out to be either facile or deceptively difficult. But
Dreams and their Interpretation Made Easy by Francis A. Menezes is a
book that has none of the appendages of "made easy" books.