What dreams may come....always an intriguing question, always teasing the mind, all its deja vus that flash back and forth, leaving us in a state of conflict, “was it real, or was it a dream,” Madhu Tandan speaks our mind as she turns the pages of her latest book, Dreams & Beyond - Finding Your Way in the Dark. “Dreams are powerful tools of understanding the self. It’s something which we are not aware of, something hidden within ourselves which needs delving into,” it was Madhu’s Guru, Sir Madhav Ashish, who introduced her to this ‘excellent tool of self analysis.’ “A learning during my seven years in Tibet,” she smiles, at this metaphor which holds the genesis of her being. “I was about 27 when my husband and I packed off everything, loaded our jeep and drove to Sir Madhav’s ashram tucked away in the Himalayas. He was a British turned monk running a Vaishnav monastery not many knew of, and it was here that we spent seven years of discovering ourselves, our being,” Madhu’s endless quest saw her tilling the land, milking cows, making their own bread, cooking on wood, leading an ascetic life. The phase came to an end, and Madhu, with her ‘education’, pored it in her book, Faith & Fire, “where intertwined with the narrative were dreams...it was like chorus and echo.”