Lactose intolerance can take away the dream, and in a quite literal way: the stomach problems caused by the bad digestion of this protein can populate our nightmare dream, turning nighttime rest into an even more difficult challenge.
Fuel for nightmares. A new study He has found A curious link between our diet and the quality of our dream. The analysis showed that healthier options correlated with more placid memories about lived dreams, while dairy consumption was related to nightmare memory.
The explanation could be in lactose intolerance. This gastrointestinal reaction, explains the team responsible for the investigation, could be responsible for altering our dream causing these uneasy dreams.
Bad matter. “The severity of nightmares is robustly associated with lactose intolerance and other food allergies,” explained in a press release Tore Nielsen, co -author of the study. “These new findings imply that changing eating habits in people with some food sensibilities could relieve nightmares. This could also explain why people often blame the dairy of their nightmares.”
1,082 students. More than a thousand students from the Macewan University, in Alberta, Canada, participated in the study. The participants responded to a survey in which he questioned his dream, time and quality of this, as well as dreams and nightmares. The questionnaire also consulted about the perception between dreams and food, as well as on the state of health, physiological and psychological of students and their relationship with food.
The team observed that about a third of the sample replied to have had nightmares, this being more common among women. They also declared in the survey a better memory of their dreams and a worst quality of sleep. It was also observed that they were twice as much prone to declare food allergies as they.
Cheese and nightmares. Analyzing the survey responses, the team observed that people with worse eating habits declared more frequently negative dreams, and tended to remember less their dreams in general, Explain the team.
When studying intolerances, they observed that lactose intolerance was associated not only gastrointestinal symptoms but also nightmares and a poor sleep quality. The team therefore suggests the possibility of a relationship between the consumption of dairy, gastrointestinal problems and an discomfort that affects not only the quality of people’s sleep but also the “content” of their dreams.
The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Frontiers in Psychology.
From the plate to the pillow. The relationship between our diet (especially the food we consume before we go to bed) and the quality of our dream It is well documented. However it is but little by little we are knowing New details that show us the complexities of this interaction.
Knowing these details is what can help us understand what actions and what changes in habits can help us improve our quality of life, for example, facilitating a repair and pleasant dream. Maybe a step can be as simple as leaving cheese for snack.
It is not perfect. The study also presents limitations, as you remember In an article for The conversation Timothy Hearn, from Anglia Ruskin University. Hearn, who was not involved in the study recalls that the sample is limited to young participants and generally in good psychological health. The nature of the study, in the form of a survey, also raises important limits, such as the so -called “memory bias”, which may arise if our ability to remember certain dreams correlates with any of the variables of interest.
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