In pursuit of nightmares

[Peter]

I had a lot of cheese to eat last night, and I had a nightmare about aliens landing outside the house, and being paralysed in bed and really uncomfortable.  I think it was indigestion from the cheese chewing up my gut, but I read up on cheese and dreaming and found this study, detailing the effects of different cheeses on sleep.  It didn't have a control group, but it's an amusing read, and tonight I have a large chunk of Stilton, and another of Brie, both of which are claimed to produce fucked-up dreams.

[McGiver]

i had a dream that i was with the brittish army fighting the russians in the polar ice-cap.
it was a strategic dream, where i got to premature ejaculate with the wench at the end of it.
i woke up feeling so horny.


i had a provalone and mustard sandwich, before this dream, yesterday.

[Calandale]

I like to eat really moldy bread. It almost always gives me nasty dreams.

[DirtDawg]

I usually have a full-sweat, freak-out dream about twice a week. I do notice that certain foods correlate with bad dreams, but not cheeses. With me, it's fatty meats and probably a touch of digesting difficulty from that kind of food. I have them even without anything in my stomach, quite often, though.

If I wanted to guarantee an extremely disturbing dream, I would take codeine.* It's a sure thing for me.







I think I've seen "sleep disturbances" mentioned in the side effects of codeine. It may be one of the few drugs that does what it is expected to do, for me.

[Peter]

I used to have violent nightmares a lot when I was at uni, and would have a lot of very vivid, fucked-up dreams in general, but all that stopped when I left uni, and now my dreams are crap.

[Silk]

Back when I was taking Zoloft, all I had to do was miss a dosage and my dreams would have given Clive Barker a run for his money.

[duncvis]

Substitute venlafaxine (Efexor) for Zoloft, and I'll say snap. escitalopram (Cipralex/Lexapro) took some beating for the first couple of weeks each dosage adjustment until my brain caught up an all.

[Scrapheap]

cough medicine does it for me 

[Pyraxis]

Aw, it sounds like so much fun inside you people's heads. I barely even remember my dreams, and when I do, they fit a few boring archetypes.

[DirtDawg]

I'd say that you are lucky to sleep so boringly.
Most of my really bad dreams are merely re-living rough times, usually with some curious twist to the outcome, that my mind spins into the mix.

[Pyraxis]

  Could be true. I've just heard some cool accounts of people using whacked-out dreams for creative inspiration. But then I'm the kind of person who chases after intense experiences sometimes to the point of foolishness, so I haven't learned yet that peace is lucky. I don't know if I ever will - I keep waiting for it to happen and it doesn't.

[Peter]

I didn't get any cheese-dreams last night.  :-(

[Litigious]

I could get nighmares from almost any medication. Ibuprofen sometimes is enough. Valium usually doesn't make have nightmares, probably while it decreases the REM-sleep.

[El]

I like to eat really moldy bread. It almost always gives me nasty dreams.

I think moldy rye bread might be very like LSD.  It might just be raw rye grain I'm thinking of though.

[DirtDawg]

I like to eat really moldy bread. It almost always gives me nasty dreams.

I think moldy rye bread might be very like LSD.  It might just be raw rye grain I'm thinking of though.

You're right. It comes from a specific rye grain mold. I believe it is dangerous in that form.