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Professor
Mark Thomas Blagrove
MA, PhD, FBPsS
Occupation(s)Professor of Psychology;
Director of the Swansea University Sleep Laboratory
Academic background
EducationThe Windsor Boys' School;
MA, Natural Sciences, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University;
PhD, Brunel University London
ThesisThe narrative of dream reports (1989)
Doctoral advisorKuper, A; Hudson, L; Wright, M
Academic work
DisciplinePsychology
Sub-disciplineSleep and cognition
InstitutionsResearch Fellow, Loughborough University;
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader / Professor, Swansea University
Main interestsResearch into sleep, dreaming, memory, learning, and REM sleep
WebsiteProfile at Swansea University

Mark Blagrove MA PhD FBPsS is a British research psychologist who specializes in the study of sleep and dreams.[1]

He currently works as a professor of psychology at Swansea University in Wales.[1]

Education

From October 1979 to June 1982, Blagrove studied for an MA in Natural Sciences at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University in England.[1][2] He then went on to obtain a PhD in 1989 at Brunel University London, where he published a doctoral thesis titled "The narrative of dream reports".[3]

Career

From September 1989 to September 1991, Blagrove was a research fellow at Loughborough University in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences.[1][2]

Since October 1991, Blagrove has worked at Swansea University in Wales, initially employed as a lecturer and later promoted to senior lecturer, then reader, and finally professor.[1][2]

Blagrove currently works as a full professor of psychology,[2] specializing in the study of "the relationship between sleep and cognition, including effects of sleep loss, memory consolidation functions of sleep, causes and possible functions of dreaming, nightmares, and lucid dreams."[1]

Blagrove is Director of the Swansea University Sleep Laboratory, which "investigates sleep, dreaming, and what happens when people are deprived of sleep."[4]

From 2001–2002, Blagrove was President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.[5][6] He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society,[2] and a Consulting Editor for the journal Dreaming, published by the American Psychological Association on behalf of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.[7]

Selected research

Suggestibility

An early study by Blagrove in 1996 showed that sleep deprivation causes a trend for greater suggestibility during interrogation. That is, they "have reduced cognitive ability or motivation to discriminate and detect discrepancies between original and misleading information."[8][9]

Dream-lag

One of Blagrove's more important findings is what he terms the "dream-lag effect". A study in 2011 "investigates evidence, from dream reports, for memory consolidation during sleep".[10] A second study in 2015 shows that "incorporation of details from waking life events into Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep dreams has been found to be highest on the night after, and then 5–7 nights after events (termed, respectively, the day-residue and dream-lag effects)."[11]. A third study into the "dream-lag effect" in 2019 was "the first to categorize types of waking life experiences and compare their incorporation into dreams across multiple successive nights." The chosen categories were: major daily activities (such as going to work or university, meals and shopping); personally significant events (such as emotional events); and major concerns (such as money problems or exam stress), and participants were asked to maintain diary entries both for these categories of waking experience, accompanying emotion and its intensity, and to record their dreams. The study found that "personally significant events persist, but not major daily activities or concerns."[12]

Dreaming, metaphor, insight, and memory consolidation

A study by Blagrove in 2013 looks into largely-anecdotal claims that "dreams can be a source of personal insight", and finds tangential support for the "facilitative effect of sleep on cognitive insight" and of REM sleep on emotional memory consolidation, and for the emergence of insight from the metaphorical representations of waking life found in dreams.[13]

Another study in 2015 also showed theoretical support for such claims, finding that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep plays a role in the "consolidation of emotional memories and the creative formation of connections between new and older memories."[14]

A third study in 2020, assessing Exploration-Insight scores (a psychotherapeutic method proposed in 1996 by Clara Hill in Working with Dreams in Psychotherapy)[15] in REM dreams, non-REM dreams, and daydreams, suggests that "insight might be produced by embodied and metaphorical thinking in dreams."[16]

DreamsID

DreamsID (short for "Dreams Illustrated and Discussed" or "Dreams Interpreted and Drawn") is a practical, collaborative project between artist Dr. Julia Lockheart and Mark Blagrove. They hold 50–60 minute sessions with the dream subject and an invited audience, and while the subject shares their dream, with Blagrove helping to facilitate and visualize the dream narrative, Lockheart produces a painting of the dream, in real-time, on a torn-out page from Sigmund Freud's book, The Interpretation of Dreams, to create "a tapestry of elements, plot, metaphoric imagery, and Freud's words." Then, later in the session, the audience is invited to join in the discussion, referencing the dream to waking life, according to the method devised by psychiatrist Montague Ullman.[6]

In the course of the sessions, Lockheart and Blagrove began to notice that the sharing of the dreams and the discussions were having an effect not only on them but on some of the audience, and that the sessions were invoking empathy toward the subjects sharing their dreams. As a result of this, the collaborators went on to co-author an important scientific paper, "Testing the Empathy Theory of Dreaming: The Relationships Between Dream Sharing and Trait and State Empathy", which was later published in Frontiers in Psychology.[6][17]

As well as being an artist, Julia Lockheart is an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Senior Lecturer at Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David.[6] Her own research includes "languaging within metadesign and the relationship between writing and collaboration in arts education."[6]

Selected publications

Articles in journals

Blagrove has authored or co-authored over 50 academic and research papers, published in scientific journals, during his career:[1][2][18][19]

Articles in journals
  • Blagrove, M.; Edwards, C.; van Rijn, E.; Reid, A.; Malinowski, J.; Bennett, P.; Carr, M.; Eichenlaub, J.; McGee, S.; Evans, K.; Ruby, P. (2020). "Insight from the consideration of REM dreams, non-REM dreams, and daydreams". Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. 6. American Psychological Association: 138–162. doi:10.1037/cns0000167. Retrieved 20 April 2020.

Other articles

Press coverage

Lectures

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Staff (2020). "Professor Mark Blagrove". Swansea University. Archived from the original on 20 April 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Staff (2020). "Mark BLAGROVE: MA, PhD, FBPsS: Swansea University, Swansea: SWAN: Department of Psychology". ResearchGate. ResearchGate GmbH. Archived from the original on 20 April 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  3. ^ Blagrove, Mark Thomas (1989). "The narrative of dream reports". Brunel University London. Retrieved 20 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ Staff (2000). "The Swansea University Sleep Lab". Swansea University. Archived from the original on 21 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  5. ^ Staff (2020). "Who's Who in IASD". International Association for the Study of Dreams. Archived from the original on 21 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d e Lockheart, Julia; Blagrove, Mark (2 November 2019). "Dream Sharing". Sublime Magazine. Sublime Magazine Ltd. Archived from the original on 21 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  7. ^ Staff (2020). "Dreaming". American Psychological Association. Retrieved 21 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Staff (2020). "Effects of length of sleep deprivation on interrogative suggestibility". APA PsycNet. American Psychological Association. Retrieved 21 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ Blagrove, Mark (1 March 1996). "Effects of Length of Sleep Deprivation on Interrogative Suggestibility". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 2 (1). American Psychological Association: 48–59. doi:10.1037/1076-898X.2.1.48. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  10. ^ Blagrove, M.; Fouquet, N.; Henley-Einion, J.; Pace-Schott, E.; Davies, A.; Neuschaffer, J.; Turnbull, O. (2011). "Assessing the Dream-Lag Effect for REM and NREM Stage 2 Dreams". PLOS One. 6 (10). Public Library of Science: e26708–. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026708. Retrieved 20 April 2020.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  11. ^ van Rijn, E.; Eichenlaub, J.; Lewis, P.; Walker, M.; Gaskell, M.; Malinowski, J.; Blagrove, M. (2015). "The dream-lag effect: Selective processing of personally significant events during Rapid Eye Movement sleep, but not during Slow Wave Sleep". Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 122. Elsevier: 98–109. doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2015.01.009. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  12. ^ Eichenlaub, J.; van Rijn, E.; Phelan, M.; Ryder, L.; Gaskell, M.; Lewis, P.; Walker, M.; Blagrove, M. (2019). "The nature of delayed dream incorporation ('dream-lag effect'): Personally significant events persist, but not major daily activities or concerns". Journal of Sleep Research. 28 (1). European Sleep Research Society: e12697–. doi:10.1111/jsr.12697. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  13. ^ Edwards, C.; Ruby, P.; Malinowski, J.; Bennett, P.; Blagrove, M. (2013). "Dreaming and insight". Frontiers in Psychology. 4 (979). Frontiers Media. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00979. Retrieved 20 April 2020.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  14. ^ Edwards, C.; Malinowski, J.; McGee, S.; Bennett, P.; Ruby, P.; Blagrove, M. (2015). "Comparing personal insight gains due to consideration of a recent dream and consideration of a recent event using the Ullman and Schredl dream group methods". Frontiers in Psychology. 6. Frontiers Media: 831–. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00831. Retrieved 20 April 2020.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  15. ^ Hill, C. E. (17 July 1996). Working with Dreams in Psychotherapy. New York City: Guilford Press. ISBN 1572300922.
  16. ^ Blagrove, M.; Edwards, C.; van Rijn, E.; Reid, A.; Malinowski, J.; Bennett, P.; Carr, M.; Eichenlaub, J.; McGee, S.; Evans, K.; Ruby, P. (2020). "Insight from the consideration of REM dreams, non-REM dreams, and daydreams". Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. 6. American Psychological Association: 138–162. doi:10.1037/cns0000167. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  17. ^ Blagrove, Mark; Hale, Sioned; Lockheart, Julia; Carr, Michelle; Jones, Alex; Valli, Katja (20 June 2019). "Testing the Empathy Theory of Dreaming: The Relationships Between Dream Sharing and Trait and State Empathy". Frontiers in Psychology. 10. Frontiers Media: 1351–. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01351. Archived from the original on 21 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  18. ^ Staff (13 April 2020). "Mark Blagrove (0000-0002-9854-1854)". ORCID. Retrieved 20 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ^ Blagrove, Mark (2020). "Mark Blagrove: Swansea University - Academia.edu". Academia.edu. Archived from the original on 20 April 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2020.

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