Press, magazine articles, broadcasting and videos
Article in the British Psychological Society magazine The Psychologist on debates about the possible function of dreaming, and whether dreaming might have a function when dreams are told, in contrast to the many proposed within-sleep functions of dreaming. Adapted from chapters 12, 13 and 17 of Blagrove, M. & Lockheart, J. (2023) The Science and Art of Dreaming. Routledge. Main image by Julia Lockheart. Published online 15th March 2024 and in the print magazine October 2024 issue.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/does-dreaming-have-function
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/does-dreaming-have-function
Article published 11th January 2024 in the online science magazine Psyche on the empathy and group bonding effects of dream-sharing, including discussion of the link between this proposed effect and human self-domestication. The article has artworks from our events and link to the video of our Dream Salon at Cabaret Voltaire in 2023.
https://psyche.co/ideas/the-reason-we-dream-might-be-to-bring-us-closer-together
https://psyche.co/ideas/the-reason-we-dream-might-be-to-bring-us-closer-together
Article about our book tour of the UK, US and Switzerland, from March to July 2023, in Dream Time magazine, Fall 2023.
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Long and very in-depth interview on Radio New Zealand, 23rd September 2023 with prestigious presenter Kim Hill. Link to the recording is in the following article which details the interview, our work and our book.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018908201/prof-mark-blagrove-the-stories-dreams-tell
Guardian newspaper article on 20th September 2023 discussing our book and dream salons, and dreaming and health in general, and benefits and cautions regarding lucid dreams.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/sep/20/the-sleep-secret-how-lucid-dreams-can-make-us-fitter-more-creative-and-less-anxious
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/sep/20/the-sleep-secret-how-lucid-dreams-can-make-us-fitter-more-creative-and-less-anxious
Radio interview discussing our book The Science and Art of Dreaming, broadcast on 6th June 2023 with BBC Radio Wales for the programme Science Cafe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mjl2
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mjl2
Podcast with the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, Dream Research Institute, London, on 18th May 2023. Dreamboat Podcast, Series 1, Episode 7: Why do we dream? The Science and Art of Dreaming with Mark Blagrove and Julia Lockheart.
https://sites.libsyn.com/459600/dreamboatpodcast/series-1-episode-7-the-science-and-art-of-dreaming-with-mark-blagrove-and-julia-lockheart
https://sites.libsyn.com/459600/dreamboatpodcast/series-1-episode-7-the-science-and-art-of-dreaming-with-mark-blagrove-and-julia-lockheart
BBC article on 24th April 2023 in which we discussed and painted a dream of a blind BBC journalist. In the dream he is back at his school, in the days when he was able to see.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65188978
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65188978
Interview with Mark Blagrove by BBC Science Focus on 6th August 2022, regarding the different theories on whether dreaming has a function, or has no function at all. The article was timed for the release of the Sandman series on Netflix.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/the-sandman-why-do-we-dream/
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/the-sandman-why-do-we-dream/
Article in New Scientist on 8th April 2022 about the proposal by Mark Blagrove and Julia Lockheart that dream-sharing has contributed to human self-domestication. (This news article is behind a paywall, full length journal article on this is on the science page of this website.)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2315468-listening-to-friends-tell-you-about-their-dreams-helps-develop-empathy/
And New Scientist podcast (#113), also from 8th April 2022, with Mark Blagrove interviewed about our theory linking dream-sharing to the social evolution theory of human self-domestication.
https://www.newscientist.com/podcasts/113-climate-change-suing-governments-to-cut-emissions-shock-discovery-in-particle-physics-a-new-function-for-dreams/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2315468-listening-to-friends-tell-you-about-their-dreams-helps-develop-empathy/
And New Scientist podcast (#113), also from 8th April 2022, with Mark Blagrove interviewed about our theory linking dream-sharing to the social evolution theory of human self-domestication.
https://www.newscientist.com/podcasts/113-climate-change-suing-governments-to-cut-emissions-shock-discovery-in-particle-physics-a-new-function-for-dreams/
Video of our talk at Oriel Science, Swansea, on 18th August 2021, presenting the dreams and paintings from our 2020 Covid-19 pandemic project, and discussing the relationship of the paintings to surrealism, and the relationship of dream-sharing to the evolutionary theory of Human Self-Domestication.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=39-SEWdRzBo
Article by Julia Lockheart and Mark Blagrove in the Spring 2021 issue of Dream Time magazine, on the October 2020 and January 2021 events to commemorate and discuss the two dreams that Dora told Freud during her brief psychoanalysis, with the dreams painted live by Julia during the discussions.
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Article by Julia Lockheart and Mark Blagrove in the Winter 2021 issue of Dream Time magazine, on our October 2020 online event held to commemorate and discuss the first dream that Dora told Freud, of her being rescued from a burning house, with the dream painted by Julia during the discussion.
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