Anecdotal: cheese often will make me have vivid dreams and remember them better in the morning. About half the time they will be nightmares but sometimes they will be good. Vivid and entertaining.
To experiment: I think some kinds of cheese (blue) affects me differently than others. Although soft cheese has more lactose than hard.
Not sure how long after eating cheese makes a difference. Only noticed it in evening. Need to experiment with lactose free cheese.
I've found for quite some time that if I drink milk before bed, either a plain glass of milk, coffee or a milo that I get more vivid dreams. But I was under the assumption this was a fairly common scenario, even if we don't know the underlying reason.
Cheese / other dairy doesn't seem to do it for me, and I rarely remember dreams good or bad. The most reliable way I've found to induce nightmares is to overheat while sleeping (e.g. falling asleep clothed and under a blanket).
To be clear I am not recommending doing this, as the nightmares tend to have a vivid quality similar to a fever dream and are remarkably unpleasant.
Researchers questioned more than 1,000 students about the quality of their sleep, their eating habits, and any perceived link between the two...
Anyone else find this methodology highly questionable at least, more likely outright unprofessional?
Anecdotal: cheese often will make me have vivid dreams and remember them better in the morning. About half the time they will be nightmares but sometimes they will be good. Vivid and entertaining.
To experiment: I think some kinds of cheese (blue) affects me differently than others. Although soft cheese has more lactose than hard. Not sure how long after eating cheese makes a difference. Only noticed it in evening. Need to experiment with lactose free cheese.
I've found for quite some time that if I drink milk before bed, either a plain glass of milk, coffee or a milo that I get more vivid dreams. But I was under the assumption this was a fairly common scenario, even if we don't know the underlying reason.
Cheese / other dairy doesn't seem to do it for me, and I rarely remember dreams good or bad. The most reliable way I've found to induce nightmares is to overheat while sleeping (e.g. falling asleep clothed and under a blanket).
To be clear I am not recommending doing this, as the nightmares tend to have a vivid quality similar to a fever dream and are remarkably unpleasant.
isn't this a tyramine/noradrenaline thing, rather than a gut microbiome thing?
I've heard cheese seen under a microscope does give nightmares