Mark Blagrove is Professor of Psychology at Swansea University where he investigates the psychology and neuroscience of dreaming, in home and sleep lab experiments. He is a past-President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Mark Blagrove graduated from Cambridge University with his first degree, in Natural Sciences and Experimental Psychology. He then researched for his PhD on dreaming at Brunel University and has a Certificate in Humanistic and Psychodynamic Counselling from the University of London. He researches the relationship of dream content to waking life variables; the memory processing functions of sleep, and possibly dreaming; the aetiology of nightmares; lucid dreaming; and the effects of dream sharing on personal insight, and on empathy. He has been an external PhD examiner for many universities worldwide. He has published in major journals, including Neurobiology of Learning and Memory; Frontiers in Psychology; Journal of Sleep Research; Dreaming; Consciousness and Cognition; Psychology of Consciousness; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied; Personality and Individual Differences; Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience; Psychopharmacology; Journal of Psychopharmacology; Applied Cognitive Psychology; Acute Pain; PLoS ONE; Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine; and Anaesthesia. He has run dream groups following the Ullman method since 2009, at universities and conferences worldwide. These follow strictly the procedures for dream groups as devised by Montague Ullman, and follows at all times the ethics guidelines of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. His science art collaboration with artist Julia Lockheart involves Julia painting dreams that are discussed by the dream sharer with the audience and Mark Blagrove. Julia Lockheart is Associate Professor at the Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity St David, and is also Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.The collaboration is documented at https://DreamsID.com. This work has resulted in the empathy theory of dreaming, which is described in detail in their Routledge book The Science and Art of Dreaming.
