• Question: does cheese really effect nightmares

    Asked by rosieposie to David, Helen, Ian, rhysphillips, Sarah on 20 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Helen Fletcher

      Helen Fletcher answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      Well, if you had an intolerance to lactose eating cheese at night could disturb your stomach and disrupt your sleep pattern and give you strange dreams.

    • Photo: Rhys Phillips

      Rhys Phillips answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      Eating cheese giving people bad dreams is a bit of a myth really – although Helen has suggested a possible scenario, for most people it won’t cause them.

    • Photo: David Corne

      David Corne answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      cheese contains this:

      which actualy has a calming effect, relieving tension. Cheese actually settles you
      down, making it less likely you will have nightmares. I think the whole cheese/nightmare
      thing comes from “A Christmas Carol”, where Scrooge thought the visitation of one of the ghosts
      (Christmas Past, Christmas Present, etc) was due to a piece of cheese. Well, Scrooge was an accountant, and Charles Dickens was an author. Not scientists, you see.

    • Photo: Ian van der Linde

      Ian van der Linde answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      Only if you cut the cheese into the shape of a zombie.

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