Does eating food before bed really cause you to have weird dreams?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Watch the roses-they bite. Careful of the little girl-she's lethal. Flying fish are key to your survival. Is this a nightmare or another David Lynch movie? Weird Dreams is a little of both, a game that traps in a surreal environment from which you must escape, checkered pajamas and all. The only way out is to wake yourself up, but you won't be able to do that until you experience some of the strangest adventures ever seen on a computer screen.

Like most action games of this kind, Weird Dreams deposits you in a series of potentially deadly situations that you must survive by using your wits and joystick skill. Make your way through all the screens, and you achieve the ultimate goal of the game (in this case, to reassemble your badly addled brain and make it through the surgery you seem to be undergoing). What's refreshing and different in this adventure is the game's unpredictable sense of humor and use of graphics that would give Salvador Dali pause.

The gameplay will be very familiar to sword-and-sorcery gamesters, even if it does require a fish or soccer ball instead of a sword. Instead of dragons and trolls, there are more unusual adversaries. Watch out for seemingly innocent objects; unwary encounters with these are likely to result in sudden, gruesome (sometimes gruesomely funny) death. To survive, you've got to kill just about everything you meet and grab anything that you can pick up.

The package includes a useful hint book and a long-winded novella that sets the scene for the game itself but which won't help you much in playing it. (You'll need the novella to pass the game's copy protection.) A joystick is also highly recommended, although you can play from the keyboard. One irritating flaw is the lack of a save-game feature; after five deaths, you're back at the beginning.

While Weird Dreams is certainly something different in the all too predictable world of computer gaming, I found myself wishing it were even more different. A lot of the game depends on joystick reflexes. The game would've broken new ground if it had required players to figure out the kind of intensely personal symbolisms and puzzles that dreams really present. You get some of the flavor of a generic dream, without the emotional urgency that all real dreams have. Sometimes I wanted to talk with some of the characters I met, but to progress required more violence than voice. The nastier opponents tend to be female (the little girl, the ballerina, the queen bee); game programmers ought to be more sensitive to these issues.

Perhaps my wish is really a call for a radically different kind of computer game, one that Weird Dreams only hints at. All in all, the game was fun, an odd diversion from the usual without being a complete reverse of the familiar. All that's required to have a good time with Weird Dreams is a quirky sense of humor-and it helps if you aren't too squeamish.

Answer 3

No. No one knows the TRUE cause of dreams. I found it's really the emotions you feel before dreams. If you feel anxiety, you get creepy dreams. If you feel awesome, you probably won't have a dream. If you're grossed out by the food you eat, i guess that could cause a domino effect to have weird dreams. But just eating in general. No. I believe not.

Answer 4

Did you ever notice that when you take a nap after you’ve eaten lunch that you can have some crazy images go through your mind. The same thing happens at night too, because food can trigger some wild and wacky dreams. If you enjoy these psychedelic excursions, then take note of what you had to eat before hand and repeat the process. On the other hand, if you’re not interested, then take note of what you ate and make certain to avoid eating whatever it was. Food is one of the generators of dreams, which are not worth interpreting.

Answer 5

It can cause you to have weird dreams, but it really depends. Dreams are usually based on events that you have gone through that day, of course everything is all garbled up, and probably doesn't resemble anything you experienced. What you ate before you went to bed, what you were thinking about, if you were stressed, people you talked to during the day, and any other events during the day can affect your dreams. They can also tap into your subconcious (sounds a little freaky), but they can replay or pull things that you have pushed to the back of your mind.

Answer 6

OMG eating food b4 bed does not cause you to have weird dreams. I you go to bed thinking about weird things then you have weird dreams, but if you go to bed thinking about food then the food might come to life but thats because dreams that you have in your sleep always are whne your imagination is cranked up and wanting to imagine. So it depends on which way you look at it. Nat ;-)

Answer 7

No.

Start a dream journal if you haven't already. As soon as you wake up for the day, write down whatever you can remember. If you do this for awhile, your memory will get better. Eventually you might want to start lucid dreaming, where you're sort of "in control" of your dreams and can do weird things like fly if you want to.

Answer 8

Yes, I think so. Seems like it's true because when ever I get really full and eat before bed I dream crazy.

Answer 9

Yes it does cause some people to have all kinds of dreams.

Answer 10

All I've heard is that if you eat food before bed, it's harder to fall asleep because your body is busy digesting the food.

Answer 11

Oh yes!

For good dreams, I recommend vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce and whipped cream on top.

Nuts are optional!