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Waking up to dreams
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Dreams are the royal roads to our inner selves, says Indira Bhagar, dream analyst
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Indira Bhangar: `Dreams are your suppressed desires and feelings.'
MISTING REALITY, blocking, shocking, scaring, soothing, endearing... Dreams and nightmares carve themselves into our existence — sometimes scorching our sleep and peace and some other times offering charm, with a strange sense of déjà vu in our waking lives.
"Dreams are the royal road to the subconscious," Carl Jung had propounded. Many of us must have treaded this road, but have often disregarded the messages our dreams have for us. Nevertheless, the feeling of déjà vu is always there, when every once in a while, the events of our dreams replay themselves in real life, as if we were watching a film. Psyched as we may be after such an occurrence, Indira Bhagar, Bangalore-based dream analyst and psycho-spiritual counsellor, certainly isn't. She considers dreams guides to our life and uses them as healing tools.
"All dreams are your suppressed desires and feelings, manifesting in a sleep state. They must be looked at through a process, so that they can help you work out a solution to personal growth," says Indira, turning even a scary nightmare into a healing process.
"Dreams are also a rich resource, providing guidelines to people's lives, their relationships, health and career success," she says.
Seeking answers
The essence in analysing dreams lies in interpreting them correctly and using the cues therein to lead a complete life, says Indira, who believes that all human beings are complete within themselves and can find solutions to their problems on their own.
She helps people analyse their dreams through a series of processes, all of which lead a person inwards to seek answers.
She's even analysed over 250 dreams online for visitors to the site indya.com. Indira now provides help on analysing dreams at her clinic, which she runs from her home.
"Dreams can help us with our real life situations," she says. "They are the language of the subconscious mind talking to the conscious mind. They come to us in symbols and visions and we have to learn to co-relate them to our lives; the connection is not very direct."
Classifying dreams into some broad categories, she explains that recurring dreams often hold messages for people that need to be heeded. They keep recurring till an activity is completed. Anxiety or fear-driven dreams indicate to people that they must come to terms with something they are worrying about, while sexual dreams are often the result of suppressed sexual feelings and so on.
Helping her clientele interpret their dream through a series of questions, creative visualisation processes and verbal counselling, Indira helps them see what they didn't realise earlier, using dreams as a healing process in their life. She ensures that the environment created for her sessions give the person involved, a feeling of "safety, comfort and confidence," she says.
Though Indira uses a combination of some of the healing processes that she has worked with (advanced counselling, neo-linguistic programming, transaction analysis, Reiki, pranic healing, energy psychology) in some of her sessions, she firmly believes that, "the best interpretation of a dream is one that a person gives himself."
Journals
The one hurdle Indira often faces when she does her counselling is that people forget the exact dream that they have had, which hampers the interpretation. To overcome this, she urges people who wish to follow the messages in their dreams, to keep a "dream journal", cataloguing everything in the dream, as soon as they get up. "You start losing memory after five minutes of waking up and tend to forget the dreams. To avoid this, maintaining a dream journal is very important. Even if you get up in the middle of the night, the dream journal must be at the bedside, so you can quickly jot down the dream."
Indira, who feels that analysing dreams is an unsought terrain for many, holds daylong dream workshops, teaching people how to interpret and recall dreams. She also runs a wellness centre at her home, where she looks at healing people emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically through a series of methods such as acupressure, seed therapy, roller massages, rubber band therapy, su jok (Korean acupressure), Reiki and many others.
Indira Bhangar can be contacted on 25089239.
TINA GARG
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