It turns out the old wives' tales about food giving you nightmares is really true, particularly cheese.
A study published in Frontiers of Psychology found a link between the foods we eat and the dreams we have, and they may have found a cause for it.
Blaming cheesy meals in particular, was supported in the present results by (1) our participants' perceptions that dairy products were the 2nd most prevalent food group responsible for affecting their dreams — including disturbing (22%) and bizarre (27%) dreams — and (2) the finding that nightmares were, in fact, robustly associated with Lactose Intolerance.
And women had more nightmares than men.
All measures differed by gender in that women recalled more dreams and more nightmares, had dream emotion that was on average more negative.
But you'll note that dairy was only the second most prevalent food group responsible for affecting dreams.
The food group that induced the most dreams was sweets.
The perceived effect of food on dreams was associated with higher nightmare recall and Nightmare Disorder Index scores, with changes being blamed primarily on desserts/sweets (31%) and dairy (22%).
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