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Our forthcoming book, which will be published on 10th February 2023.
Pre-orders avaialble from:
https://www.routledge.com/The-Science-and-Art-of-Dreaming/Blagrove-Lockheart/p/book/9780367479947


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This site displays artworks and publications from the collaboration between artist and design writer Julia Lockheart and sleep scientist Mark Blagrove. Please click on the menu items at the top of the page for details.

In our 90-minute public performances a recent or important dream is discussed with Mark, and Julia creates an artwork that captures the dream. All artworks are drawn and painted onto pages taken, with publisher's permission, from Freud's book The Interpretation of Dreams. Afterwards the dream sharer uses the artwork to revisit, consider and share the dream with others. The artworks from our public events and performances are shown here.  


Our research suggests that this process encourages insight, understanding and empathy. See here for an article in Psychology Today about our collaboration, and here for our 2019 article in Frontiers in Psychology, on dream-sharing and empathy. Our 2022 paper in the International Journal of Dream Research on the effects of dream-sharing on social evolution and human self-domestication is here. 

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Dr Julia Lockheart is Associate Professor at Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD), and Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. Professor Mark Blagrove is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Sleep Laboratory at Swansea University. Photo: Paul Duerinckx


Painting of a nightmare of a nurse told to us during the first Covid Lockdown, while she was isolating with Covid. For details see Gallery. 

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Mark Blagrove and Julia Lockheart at the Freud Museum London

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Julia Lockheart discussing with the audience and dream-sharer her finished painting at the Freud Museum London

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Julia Lockheart painting a dream at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study.

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Dream-sharers can now be given a t-shirt with the print of the painting of their dream on it. This one was produced following our event in Tucson, Arizona, August 2022. For details see Gallery.  

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  • Home
  • Gallery of dreams and artworks
  • What we do
  • Future events
  • Covid-19 Lockdown and Dreaming
  • Biographies
  • Science posts & publications
  • Art related posts
  • Freud
  • Press, magazine articles, broadcasting and videos
  • Ethics and Permissions
  • Contact Us
  • Acknowledgements