Dr. Keith Melvyn Trevor [Keith] Hearne BSc MSc PhD (10/12/1942), an English psychologist and composer, born in born at Reading in Berkshire, England. He is an internationally known psychologist who conducted the world's first sleep-laboratory research into 'lucid' dreams for his Doctorate. In the course of that research, he invented the 'dream machine'. The original sleep-lab chart records from his pioneering research are on display at the Science Museum, in London. He is the Principal of the European College of Hypnotherapy, training people in hypnotherapy and past-life regression, and is a therapist of renown. He has introduced several new techniques, and has published papers on his methods.
In addition, he composes hauntingly enigmatic music, having written a Requiem and a musical Shambhalah.