[1][6] 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".

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

[14] Blagrove and colleagues have shown that score on the HSPS correlates significantly with ability to detect spoken words that are present but degraded in auditory stimuli[14] and that the Positive Sensory Responsivity dimension of HSPS predicts perceptual advantage in detection and identification of visually degraded stimuli (Williams & Blagrove, 2024).

[23] 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.

[32] This approach was expanded on in Blagrove and Lockheart (2023) The Science and Art of Dreaming,[33] in Psyche magazine (2024),[34] and in The Psychologist (2024),[35] a publication of the British Psychological Society.

[37] 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.

"[10] In April 2019, the BBC World Service Television programme CrowdScience broadcast a segment in which Lockheart is shown painting as a candidate shares her dream.

[47] In recognition of the Dadaist influence on the DreamsID collaboration, in July 2023 Blagrove and Lockheart held an event at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich.

[58][59] Blagrove has authored or co-authored over 50 academic and research papers, published in peer reviewed scientific journals, during his career:[1][6][61][62]