Did You Know That Spicy Foods Cause Restless Sleep?

"The music you're listening to, the book you're reading, the TV show you're watching, the conversation you're having with your spouse-all those things are likely to be influencing."

If you suffer from nightmares and happen to catch a horror flick, take a few minutes to reprogram your brain with happy thoughts-like vacation memories or favourite moments with your kids-before settling down to sleep.

The amino acid L-tryptophan, which is found in bananas, milk, and turkey, “reduces the frequency of eye movements during REM sleep,” which are putatively tied to dream action.

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In a study, 63% of smokers still dreamed about smoking a year later. Nicotine withdrawal enhances brain activity in a way that can make you dream more, says Patrick McNamara, Director of the Evolutionary Neurobehaviour Laboratory at Boston U.

If you stick it out, those neurons will eventually calm down again and your lungs will be much healthier!

A study found that participants who took a daily 250mg B6 supplement reported a significant increase in dream content - as measured in dream vividness, bizarreness, emotionality and colour.

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"B6 is the co-factor our body uses to turn some of the amino acids we eat into the neurotransmitters that affect our dreaming."

Author of new study, Calvin Kai-Ching Yu at HK Shue Yan University, found that sleeping more often in the face down position is associated with a higher prevalence of experiencing particular dream themes.

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These dream themes are such as being locked up, dreaming about hand tools, sexual experiences, being smothered and unable to breathe, swimming and being nude.

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More than that, daytime mood and social interactions have been found to correlate with dream details - although universal patterns across dreams are almost impossible to quantify reliably.

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As in Stickgold's memory experiments, dreaming about stuff that’s bothering you can help the brain process during sleep what you might not be thrilled to process during the day.

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In a study performed by Brighton Town University's department of the mind and body, it found that participant that go to bed on a full stomach can trigger nightmare-causing brain waves - especially when the food is unhealthy food.

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There's a narrow window for sounds to get through to your brain during sleep. Have you ever dreamt that you were in a fire only to wake up & realise that the fire alarm you heard was actually your alarm clock?

A study found that sniffing flowers at a particular point in the sleep cycle led to more positive dreams; while a sulfur odour was linked to negative ones.

Dreams are sleep protective, so instead of waking up, you incorporate things like smells into your dream.

According to a study published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology, spicy nights resulted in restless sleep. The study's authors speculate that spicy food elevates internal body temperatures, which disrupts sleep.

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