, an in-house sleep expert with Sleep Junkie, tells TODAY.com that the researchers have several questions in mind. “Do testers feel they sleep better or worse after eating cheese right before bedtime? Are they more energized when they wake up? Are they experiencing more nightmares? Are there nutritional aspects to consider if we hear that certain cheeses trigger similar responses among participants?”, the company has received over 15,000 requests to participate.
Even though cheese is one of the only foods that may contain all of those compounds, the studies on it in particular are pretty slim.found that over 75% of people who ate a type of blue cheese before bed reported more vivid dreams, but perhaps the British Cheese Board researchers weren’t the most rigorously unbiased investigatory team.
That sounds more pleasantly hilarious than nightmarish to us. As much as we love Scrooge’s fontina-fueled fever dream, maybe it was Shakespeare’s King Lear who had it right, mumbling to his dreamland menagerie: