5 papers in the library · publishing 2019-2023
February 1, 2023 Mark Blagrove, Julia Lockheart
The chapter begins with the text of a dream which includes themes of lucidity and control of the dream, told to us at an event at the University of California Los Angeles, and a painting of the dream and a commentary on its composition. Main content: The chapter describes how lucid dreams are a rare form of dream because the metacognition in them seems to be fragile and short-lived, and because...
February 1, 2023 Mark Blagrove, Julia Lockheart
The chapter begins with the text of a dream with three related but very separate scenes, and a painting of the dream and a commentary on its composition. Main content: This chapter describes how dreams occur in all stages of sleep, but are recalled more often from REM than from NREM sleep. Furthermore, REM dream reports (measured by the number of words) on average are longer than NREM dream...
February 1, 2023 Mark Blagrove, Julia Lockheart
The chapter begins with the text of a dream from a neuroscientist who studies what happens in the brain when dreams are produced, told to us as part of a sleep conference, and the painting of the dream and a commentary on its composition. Main content: This chapter addresses why people differ in how often they remember or recall their dreams. It concludes that the main reason for differences...
September 9, 2021 Mark Blagrove, Julia Lockheart preprint
There are many theories of the function of dreams, such as memory consolidation, emotion processing, threat simulation and social simulation. In general, such theories hold that the function of dreams occurs within sleep; occurs for unrecalled dreams as well as for dream that are recalled on awakening; and that conscious recall of dreams is not necessary for their function to occur. In...
Frontiers in Psychology June 20, 2019 Mark Blagrove, Sioned Hale, Julia Lockheart et al.
In general, dreams are a novel but realistic simulation of waking social life, with a mixture of characters, motivations, scenarios, and positive and negative emotions. We propose that the sharing of dreams has an empathic effect on the dreamer and on significant others who hear and engage with the telling of the dream. Study 1 tests three correlations that are predicted by the theory of dream...