Vivid Dreams After Unusual Foods

When I eat foods new to me, or foods I haven't eaten in sometime, I have vivid, usually disturbing dreams the following night.

I wonder if my microbiome becomes accustomed to certain foods, and gets thrown off with the introduction of a food I rarely eat, or one I've never tried before. It doesn't matter what type of food it is. It is also an interesting possibility that the microbiome could affect dreams. There are "cheese dreams".

I've had ME for 33 years, and vivid dreams after unusual food has happened many times.

 

Occasionally I have very vivid dreams, but I've never linked them to food. Maybe I should start to think about that!

Last night I had a dream that I saw a grey squirrel in the caravan field (we're staying in static caravan in a field in Wales). We saw one about a week ago, husband saw it too, so that was definitely real! First time in over 40 years that we've seen a squirrel round here. But I'm pretty certain my "second sighting" of it was actually a dream. But very realistic, to the extent that this morning I was convinced it was a memory rather than a dream, if that makes sense. We'd been talking of planting tulips in pots on the deck last night, and I was wondering if they'd get eaten by the squirrel should it return, rabbits love tulip bulbs, so I was guessing squirrels probably do too. So there was some kind of reason why I might have a dream about the squirrel!

Had a rather higher protein diet than usual yesterday. Breakfast was leftover kidney turbigo with toast, then late lunch of roast chicken with all the trimmings (including sausage and bacon).

This is just my recent one off experience. It's a while since I had such a realistic dream. I'll be trying to keep track of them now, and see if diet might be involved. It wasn't a particularly disturbing dream other than I was so convinced it was real!