DescriptionAt first glance, dreams are strange, even bizarre. In them, kings can turn intocabbages and horses can sing! It's easy to dismiss them-as they routinelyare-as meaningless hallucinations that arise when the rational intellect hasbeen disarmed by sleep. And yet, human beings have forever puzzled overtheir meaning, and continue to do so, arguing that their strangeness is pointingto something other than what is depicted in them.Even a cursory analysis of our own dreams can reveal the truth of such aclaim, that dreams aren't random images conjured by the erratic firing of thesynapses in our brain. They seem to know our thoughts, often when we don'tknow them ourselves, and have answers to questions that vex us in our wakinglives. Analysed carefully, they can show us our deepest desires and confrontus with concerns that we've been trying our best to avoid. They may evenknow our bodies better than we think we do. And then of course there arethe paranormal dreams, which, as the author shows, are not beyond rationalinterpretation; and lucid dreams, which prove that sleep isn't even a necessarycondition for dreaming.Condensing four decades of experience in collecting and interpreting dreams, Madhu Tandan's The Logic of Dreams is the perfect primer for those confoundedby the multiplicity of our chaotic dream world, and simultaneously a readyhandbook for those who wish to learn to interpret their own dreams.