Really Eating spicy foods that cause Nightmares?

Really Eating spicy foods that cause Nightmares?



Often gets a bad dream? Meet or being chased demons, surrounded bad guys or anything that makes sleeping uncomfortable? Try to remember again what to eat before going to bed, lest too much spicy food.

Actually there is no solid evidence that spicy food can trigger nightmares. However, a study in Canada study showed that 8.5 percent of studies have shown an association between nightmare with food consumed before bed.





"Yes, spicy food can sometimes cause nightmares or strange dreams. Maybe because some people are more sensitive to the chemical composition of certain foods," kara Tore Nielsen, professor of laboratory dream at Universite de Montreal as quoted by NBC News.

However, not only the food spicy. Other foods that are categorized as heavy as dairy products are also touted to increase the risk for having nightmares. The reason, these foods can affect the body's metabolism and affects brain activity.


Dream influenced food?
As we know, most dreams occur during sleep into the REM (Rapid Eye Movement). In this phase, the brain becomes more active during sleep than the other phases. Certain foods such as spicy foods, has been blamed as one of the causes REM appear more often.

Not just food, anyway ... of the results of various studies about dreams, nightmares seem to occur more frequently in people who have a dysfunction in the brain in the frontal lobe. Section fails to control the amygdala, the part of the brain that regulate memory functions and emotional functioning.

In certain people with frontal lobe disorders, it should really pay attention to what they consume. No spicy food alone is a nightmare. For a perfectly normal, does that mean should avoid foods such as described above so that no bad dreams? Depending on taste, if you feel okay during sleep after eating spicy, yes go like eating chili. Because, for most people of Indonesia, a meal without sauce was like to live yet complete, right?