 From 1996 to 2000 McCreery was Lecturer in Experimental Psychology at Magdalen College, Oxford.Since 1998 he has been a Research Director at Oxford Forum.The three main areas of McCreery's work with Celia Green have been the types of hallucinatory experience known as lucid dreams (dreams in which the subject is aware that he or she is dreaming), out-of-body experiences, and apparitional experiences.