Press, magazine articles, broadcasting and videos
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.
| lockheart_blagrove_dora_events_article_-_spring_2021_dreamtime.pdf |
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.
| dream_time_winter_2021_dora_article.pdf |