nightmares & cheese

vodkadub

Was hoping someone could answer this, why do people have nightmares after eating cheese. I've had to nightmares in a row(pretty freaky ones at that which i won't go into), cos i ate kilmeddan cheddar cheese is there some great scientific reason for this or wha??!

RedXIV

No idea but my dentist told me that a slice of cheese before you go to bed is good for your teeth.

so there.

Edit: In hindsight, if you believe you're going to have a nightmare, you probably will. watch a comedy before you go to bed

Mr. Presentable

I suspect it would be true of eating any high fat foot soon before bed. The system has to either work hard at breaking it down or leave it there until morning.

c - 13

I've never been able to cause nightmares by eating cheese before bed.

I was trying to prove to a friend that its not as common as they make it out to be and ate pretty much a block of cheddar (kilmeaden also) before bed every night for a week.

Slept soundly every night and had no dreams at all (that I could remember anyway).

Nehaxak

http://www.britishcheese.com/news.cfm?page_id=240

Sweet Dreams Are Made Of Cheese

The age old myth that cheese gives you nightmares has finally been laid to rest this week following the release of a new study carried out by the British Cheese Board.

The in-depth Cheese & Dreams study, a first of its kind, reveals that eating cheese before bed will not only aid a good night’s sleep but different cheeses will in fact cause different types of dreams.

Of the 200 volunteers who participated in the week-long study, 72% slept well every night, 67% remembered their dreams and none recorded experiencing nightmares after eating a 20g piece of cheese half an hour before going to sleep.

A lot of people still believe the old wives tale that cheese gives you nightmares but this study endorses the scientific facts.

“ One of the amino acids in cheese – tryptophan – has been shown to reduce stress and induce sleep so cheese may actually help you have a good night’s sleep,” says Dr Judith Bryans, Nutrition Scientist at The Dairy Council.

vodkadub

ah thanks for that

Nehaxak

Btw, when I was farting about with experimenting with lucid dreaming years ago, eating a strong cheddar cheese always seemed to help me achieve the lucid state more often.
Maybe it's something to do with people's digestive systems after eating cheese, as nightmares can a lot of the time be probably put down to bad indigestion.

chin_grin

Try your own brand and let us know.

With the watching some comedy before going to bed lark, can't agree. I watched some documentary about the origins of Satan before going to bed and slept like a baby. I heard it wasn't just cheese though, any foodstuffs did the trick.

vodkadub

eh whats a lucid dream?

in one of the dreams i was in a jungle being attacked by weird monkeys they kept scratching me, and i got a disease that would make blood pour from my eyes. now thats ****ed up!

mehfesto2

Yeah, it's total fudge. It was on mythbusters and all!
I've heard Honey does give you nightmares though, but I've tried it and found no effects.

Frisbee

Yeah I've heard of this before but cant see there being much truth to it. I eatg a cheese sandwich before bed at least three or four times a week id say...

Ainekav

i eat cheese every day im obsessed with it. i sometimes have a weird dreams but ive only had one or two nightmares in my life. im forever lucid dreaming though. it happens either just before you drift off to sleep or just before you wake up. you can control what happens in a lucid dream its fcukin cool! and you can make yourself wake up from them.theyre weird but cool