Does cheese at night give you nightmares?

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Dc has just eaten chopped up cheese and apple as a snack and I am wondering if it will affect their sleep.

The last time I ate cheese at bedtime I woke up panicking that someone was breaking into the house and I rushed downstairs to check all the windows and doors. It’s put me off now!

I had cheese on toast most evenings before bed throughout my childhood up until my mid 30s when I suddenly developed dairy intolerance . It never gave me nightmares. These days it just gives me chronic stomach ache and sets like concrete inside me.

No - old wives tale and you remember the one occasion where it happened and not the others where it did t - confirmation bias

Nope. My guilty pleasure!

does it heck

Old wives tale! Why on Earth would it, or could it, influence a brain into having a nightmare?

No, I only ever heard this tale when I moved to the UK. I love a bit of cheese at night. Never had a nightmare because of it. I only get vivid dreams if I've eaten too much of anything late at night.

Not nightmares but definitely very vivid dreams

Night cheese is the best cheese.

Well there might be tryptophan in cheese ---> serotonin, which has an effect on sleep (not necessarily nightmare inducing) so yeah cheese dreams are the best.

I eat cheese at night if I've had a run of boring dreams in the hope of something more exciting. Nope, I still dream about shopping in Tesco or putting the bins out.

However shopping in Tesco is a daytime nightmare.

DP just did this last night with our 2-year-old (after she demanded bread and cheese as a late snack)...I suggested this may not be such a good idea. DD didn't demand one of us go into her room last night (which she does about 30% of the time ATM) although she did call out random words quite loudly at least 5 times (this is not normal for her) and seemed pretty tired today.

I think it gives me very vivid dreams, but as a PP mentioned, I'm not sure if this is actually a thing or a psychosomatic / confirmation bias response, because I've grown up in a social environment which has conditioned me to believe that cheese = funny dreams.

Can be fun, though. 😄