STUDY: CHEESE GIVES YOU NIGHTMARES

New research published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology surveyed sleep habits, particularly dreams, and compared them with peoples’ eating habits. What they found is, cheese gives you nightmares. The worse lactose intolerance symptoms people had, the more intense their nightmares were. (* [gasp] – cheesecake!) The study, led by Tore Nielsen, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Montreal, included just over 1,000 participants. People who responded that they had severe gastrointestinal symptoms from their lactose intolerance reported stronger, more frequent nightmares. Patrick McNamara, a professor of neurology at Boston University who studies the brain and sleep, said eating a trigger food for lactose intolerance may cause “micro-arousals” that disturb sleep quality, resulting in stronger nightmares.
* Do they have dreams that they’re being chased by a muenster?
* After eating a whole bag of Cheetos, I had a dream I was standing naked in front of a classroom full of Chester Cheetas.
* The thing about cheese dreams is the whole thing goes pasteurize in just a few seconds.
* “What did you do at The University of Montreal this semester, son?” “We asked people if they ate cheese, dad.”
* I’ll bet this is the cheesiest article ever to appear in Frontiers in Psychology.