"We were particularly interested in whether cheese might be indicated as one such food as it is often identified in various folklore traditions as resulting in bizarre dreams or nightmares," said Russ Powell, a professor emeritus in the department of psychology at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

You may want to put that mini Babybel you eat before bedtime down: A new study suggests that consuming cheese before you drift off may help fuel nightmares.

It’s long been suggested that eating certain foods can cause nightmares, or at least some pretty strange dreams, but up until recently, that belief was largely anecdotal.

That is till about 12 years ago, when dream neuroscientist Tore Nielsen of the University of Montreal and Russ Powell, a professor emeritus in the department of psychology at MacEwan University in Canada decided to conduct some good, hard research on the topic.

“We were particularly interested in whether cheese might be indicated as one such food as it is often identified in various folklore traditions as resulting in bizarre dreams or nightmares,” Powell told HuffPost.

The results revealed that it was dairy in general, not just cheese, that was the food group most often identified by students as affecting their dreams.

In the new correlational study........

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