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MoonageDaydream
Thanks for your input, and although it's not the result I would hope for, it may be the truth. I will still test it out and see if anything happens for me, as you never know. The study said something like 80% of participants reported vivid and/or bizarre dreams after eating Stilton. But it's just one study, and even still, 20% of participants reported nothing noticeable.
Yeah, the sample size is pretty small and also quite restricted in terms of geography (a single country at best). We also don't know how well controlled this study was. If a full version of the study with (an abstract and so on) were available somewhere, I'd like to read it, though as it is, I haven't been able to find
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We also found evidence of a single, industry-sponsored laboratory study on the effects of food on dreaming (British Cheese Board, 2005). In 2005, the British Cheese Board conducted a study with 200 volunteers on the effects of eating cheese on dreams. The study purportedly found no evidence for the notion that eating cheese prior to sleep can induce nightmares, but did find evidence that different types of cheese can induce different types of dreams—for example, eating Stilton cheese often led to crazy or vivid dreams while eating cheddar cheese often led to dreams of celebrities. But although the results were widely reported in the media [e.g., “Sweet dreams are made of cheese,” Anonymous (Daily Mail), 2005], they were never published in a peer-reviewed journal, and the available information about the study is extremely sparse.
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