Does Eating Before Bed Give You Nightmares? 

for me, it's always peanut butter that gives me weird dreams... not nightmares, just weird.... but i love peanut butter so bring it on

I bet you if you tied her hands behind her back, she wouldn't be able to talk..

With all respect, I think the information presented in this video is a little bit inaccurate. In my experience, it's not about physical discomfort, but rather that certain foods and drinks before bed will often influence our dreams to make them more vivid, which some people associate with nightmares. I used to lucid dream quite frequently, and I found that eating certain foods before going to sleep would make my dreams much more vivid. I used to even stack together certain foods that are known to help people induce a lucid dream. For example, I used to take advantage of the natural sleep cycles to wake up early in the morning, get up, eat a banana and some peanut butter with milk, then go back to sleep, eager for my next REM sleep cycle. It worked for me and may as well work for someone else, too. ;-)

I'm just eating cheese on toast as I watch this in bed before sleep xxx

I know this is a weird coincidence, but Cristen Conger looks like one of my college friends. She even has the same personality; not afraid to act out funny reinactments or use funny voices. I always enjoy Cristen's videos, not that I don't enjoy the rest of the crew's videos either.

The strange thing is that I have to eat something before I go to sleep. If I don't eat something , I have a hard time sleeping. It doesn't matter what I eat.

Cristen answers why some foods make us have weird dreams and nightmares!

I love her. She's so charming and funny. lol

I heard drinking apple juice before bed makes you have illusionation dreams. My sister tried and the dream was about her becoming a charachter from American Dad

I eat almost all the time before bed and suffer very few nightmares. But I suppose it differs from person to person like everything else does.

Me- “eating lollipop before sleep hears about eating before bed gives you nightmares”. Also me- “slowly puts lolli down”

im not sure if u mentioned that, but when u eat before going to sleep, ur stomach is busy digesting the food instead of resting like the rest of the body that makes ur sleep poor and also makes u wake up really hungry

At 0:25, I know how to fix the problem when your running slowly. I create magic pillows in my dream and stuff them under my arms, then when I run with them tucked under, I go normal speed

I eat before bed every night and I do get nightmares sometimes, but only during times of high stress.

I actually do stay up on my phone until I'm tired and I start to sweat.. but I don't get nightmares like I used to when I was like 7-8-9

A random question, why does fabric get threadbare? What is happening?

I don't dream all I see is darkness

I have this problem that I keep looking around I close my eyes I think sleepy thoughts but I have to look around thinking that there is a ghost or something will start floating I know that never happened to me and most probably nothing is there but I have to look around

Useful recommendations, even seven yrs later. :) To my experience, it's indeed important to figure out the appropriate amount of carbs to take in in the evening, which may differ individually. If it's too much, it has definitely some impact on sweating, if you consume to little on the other hand, you might be lacking tryptophan and in consequence relaxation. One point that struck me: Besides the obvious things like caffeine this video recommends to stay away from mint in the evening. But what about tooth paste then? Of course one does not swallow it, still I sometimes think that it has a somewhat invigorating effect. For sure it wouldn't be a good idea to refrain from cleaning teeth in the evening, but can it affect your sleep? Is it maybe helpful not to do it immediately before going to bed but even two hours earlier?

thank you very helpful but does water give you bad dreams

MSG's! If I have a "food" with MSG's close to bedtime I have some of the most bizarre dreams ever!

Am I the only one that loves nightmares? Even though I havent had one in a loong time but the ones I had I loved

Me: has a nightmare and wakes up Also me: watches this video remembering her eating cheeto's, redband, and oreo's the night before WHILE eating an oreo.

I just ate some chocolate and im going to bed....rip

Some Heavy foods give nightmares . Stews meat,spices And sleep apnea. when I was choking I was having a nightmare. I woke up and I told wife I was having a dream she said it sounded like you couldn’t breath and was choking 🧐got me thinking

I ate some Limoncello cake and drank some of this carbonated fruit drink before bed and had the worst nightmare of my life. That's what brought me to this video.

Eating honey helps you sleep, too. It works for me. I get 8-9 hours of sleep a day, without naps.

tested and proven, Butter Chicken will do it, so will a 1lb flank steak, as well as an excessive amount of classic white-washed super delicious chinese food.

I have a nightmare ill share you the story So im in the hospital and someone is holding a knife on my neck so when he went to check on the door and there's a window behind me And I jumped off after I jumped off the window my eyes went black and when i waked up on my nightmare and i saw a girl standing in front of me so she is holding a teddy bear and she's wearing a white dress and she run to me and i saw her face it was terrifying and she shake my body And said wake up in a deep voice and i wake up on real life and i saw mom waking me up and she says your having a nightmare and after that I eat breakfast and i never dreamed it again

I'm eating junk food watching this video... 😐

I am randomly eating cheese in bed waiting to fall asleep. my mum has always told me not to eat cheese before bed so tonight I shall test her theory 😎

ok so for me, as of right now, its milk. lactose milk, im lactose intolerant. so, last night i went to bed at around 11, its normal for me. i have a nightmare that im in my bed sitting in the corner closest to the wall bc to my dream self that was safer, and my puppy was standing on my ceiling fan, she looked down at me, she gave me a side eye, looked away and as soon as she looked back at me she stared at me with a the smile dog smile. (look it up pls) so i woke up after that, terrified. and it was around 1 or 3 i cant remember. and then afterwards idk how but i dozed off again, but she jumped down from the fan onto my bed, stared at me, and started to hurt me, her head she shaking like freddy's jumpscare(from fnaf). after that i woke up AGAIN, and i went on my phone. idk why but i kept looking at my ceiling fan thinking my puppy would do the same thing she did in my nightmare, and the more i thoight abt it the worse it got. i pictured shw jumped down, but instead of hurting me she just moved forward a step each time i'd look away from the fan, so i scooted farther from the edge of my bed. moral of the story kids: do NOT drink milk before bed, always sleep tea.

I sometimes get weird dreams and sometimes it gets strange. I remember having a nightmare of a giant spider, window kills my brother (which scared me good on Easter 2016) Naps aren't no fun when you dream of something inappropriate and happens And when I had a nap dream on Oct 1, 2021 - it started with me as a temporary teacher's aid at a weird college, then had a bad dream about my phone, but found out it was just a bad dream Never Eat After 9PM!!!

To Filipinos, "Bangungot" (nightmares) can be deadly especially if it is caused by eating meals right before going to sleep. Such practice causes digestive organs to swell and cause shock, leading to death, most commonly due to a form of pancreatitis.

nothing... even though my stomach hates me, motion sickness

Add sources please! :)

Literally sitting here eating Frosted Flakes in my bed while watching this.

Honestly if i eat a heavy sugar and cabs before bed i have my best/ vivid dreams after! No bad dreams

Does eating chocolate digestive and hot chocolate disturb ur sleep and give u nightmares too?

Good to know. I also believe it can cause wet dreams too

Sugar definitely does it for me, and now I’m thinking that there is some chemicals in the sugar that does this. I can’t eat sugar pass 7 o’clock, or I will likely have a really bad nightmare.

Bruh it's 2am and I just had a nightmare that freaked the living shit out of me, and it woke up my family who got scared

it's funny because before she said don't drink caffeine and alcohol before you go to sleep I'll think about how one night I drink caffeine the couldn't fall asleep the whole day right now it's night and I'm drinking juice and right when she said don't drink juice the juice bottle is right on my lip I take away from my lips and just stare at it thinking ( crap ) XD

I had a horrible nightmare after eating shrimp before bed.

I just drank some juice before bed and I woke up 30 minutes later. My dream was about me suddenly appearing in another room in my house. The posters I hanged up that had all my favorite things like video games and tv shows suddenly turned into crudely disturbing drawings of women just smiling. As I looked around the room all my posters had all these crudely drawn women. I then appeared into the hallway and saw light coming from my parents room, I tried running forward but it felt like I wasn’t even moving. I then appeared again in the living room with with my mom taking care of my nieces, I asked her why we have 4 nieces cause in real life I only have 2. She didn’t answer my question and she just kept staring at me. I can’t really explain what it’s like waking up after those events, but it’s like you’re trying to levitate back to the surface. I got all of this from just drinking juice, christ almighty.😅

If I was already subscribed to the channel does that mean I'm still eligible for the better night's sleep?

I never have dreams or nightmares anymore. I haven't for the past few years. When I wake up I don't remember anything but what I saw before I fell asleep. Which is pitch black. Can you please explain this?

where are her lips?!

hi kian

Rumble in the Bronx... great movie

When I was young, I was a victim of the classic Pizza Nightmare. If I indulge now, I do it very early in the evening. It seems to do the trick.

OMG yes, every time with me. I ate a cookie, one of those big ones right after work and fell asleep on the sofa. I had a weird dream where I was in my house, everything was different, but familiar. Like, some weird hallways, and a space in the ceiling that I can climb up to, with another ledge just out of reach. Weird things like that. Anyhow, and certain times in the dream, all of the sudden, out of nowhere as I would be sitting on the sofa in the living room there would be this man who was made out of what looked like leather, old brown and scraped up leather, his face with just smooth leather, and there were no clothes, but no private parts either, no hair, just all dark brown leather with scratches and scrapes, and off colored patterns like stains, this man walking really fast that I would catch out of the corner of my eye, and I would jump out of fear and just catch a glimpse of him as he would go right into the bathroom and slam the door so hard it almost shook the walls. Right when I saw him out of the corner of my eye there would be these high pitched metallic electronic sounds, like during a scary movie when something scary happens, that get higher in pitch and stop, at about 2 second intervals, with a feeling of panic, the sound of fast and panicked breathing, with the whisper of a name, "Frankie".. I have no idea who "Frankie" is. In any case, it happened about 5 times in the dream and I woke up the last time. One of the times I was in the kitchen in the dream getting some food and I turned toward the washroom there he was walking super fast so that I saw him go into the washroom and slam the door behind him with the same sounds.. when I finally woke up I was like, "Wow! That was really vivid! Must have been the cookie!!" The panicked breathing in the dream when the guy would appear, always walking fast into a room and slamming the door, sounded like the breathing of someone that something really bad just happened to and was caught off guard and faced with death. How creative the inner mind is when given sugar before sleep!

wikipedia states: you "find tryptophane in protein and peptides" but you said they are found in carbohydrates. Please answer fast! a suprising lot depends on it.^^

this might explains why i had so many nightmares lately. no more late night snacks.

what if you have been having recent nightmares

joghurt with extra honey in it- I was sleepy for 30-40 mins while reading book b4 bed, but then- bang! fully alert. Also- shower right before bed doesnt work for me, it usually wakes me up. Horror movies (good ones) or interesting movies are not too great either, I can't sleep after watching one- my mind just runs too fast to calm it down.

so if I ate 3 hrs I will cause nightmares? 😮

Marshmallows!! I eat about six regular-size with a small glass of whole milk half-hour or so before bedtime, and of course I do not do this very often, and man o man! what fantastical dreams!...not really nightmares just, way colorful..action-packed impossible scenarios, often leaving me with exciting memories of perplexing yet highly insightful experiences that could never be created in the awake world.........works for me every time, and so i do it now for fun, like, 'I feel like having a good dream tonight', .........get out the jetpuffs n moojuice.....:)

Is hot chocolate bad before bed? I use water and the swiss brand mixed into it

I keep getting jump scared by a demon or a giant jumping spider and try to get away but i wake up after failing

I have acid reflux but in conjunction with that, I also have hypoglycemia so I kind can't not have oranges to help me not pass out. Also, there's no way in hell I could sleep with my head like that :/ It really sucks being me.

Caffein for me actually puts me to sleep so I drink it before going to bed, and I do sleep better if Iv drank coffee

but does spicey did give you nightmares or not? I always have a couple 4-5 corn chips w habanero sauce because I believe it makes y dreams a lot more vivid and enjoyable. is this true or coincidental?

I don't know, but according to my college friend, nightmares are actually the way of our body to say that we must wake-up (or get up) because our pancreas are having a problem "grinding" the food that passes through the intestine. I don't know. Is that true?! And also, is it possible for someone to not dream?! And also, why do I always have lucid dreams (every night actually)? And when I wake-up, it seems that I didn't sleep at all. I hate it. And also, does my sleeping position affect my dreams?! There's actually a sleeping position that I do, which makes me dream of something bad or good or lucid (i.e. facing the wall=bad; back against the wall=good; back/stomach=lucid). Thank you! :))))

When I was younger I used to get grape cranberry juice nightmares. so I guess the food chemicals plays a big part while the brain is resting

Can you drink milk at night with cornflakes the cereal I dont add suger to my cereal

I thought eating late night snacks causes you to have bad dreams. Glad to know it’s only certain drinks and food.

once tho

No..

Oh my god insomnia fricking sucks...I have suffered from insomnia for about three years now....

Um I have a question Whould a backstab work

Have not had a good night sleep in 10yrs work night shift

Is it okay to drink water before going to bed? Please answer.

Lol I’m eating skittles and watching this right before I go to bed

m&m's just woke up for that nightmare sweating .

What if I take mint melatonin?

If I'm hungry I can't fall asleep, so then I always eat a sandwich and then I sleep just fine, but if I have 2 sandwiches I tend to wake up in the middle of the night. Not very healthy though so I should stop and eat dinner later instead.

not always. Yesterday I ate mint aero before bed :P

sleeping on your back gives you nightmares

Sugar does the opposite for me.

Brain Stuff it's cool but really the nightmares I have are demonic type nightmares and I remember them all, I don't think it has to do with our brain much

I've had crazy weid dreams too, in one recently my teeth fell out,the night before that I was being haunted by a ghost/demon.. And freddy kruger was in there too somewhere lol

I never have nightmares anymore and I'm 9

I heard if u eat cheese before bed u can remember your dreams.

Who else ate almost half a tub of ice cream at 12:30 am and is now watching this for info?

thank you ,that help me a lot.

I only get nightmares when I’m cold

She's fun to watch

only on the weekends i eat an ice cream before bed but i don't have nightmares .-.

Why don't you actually Recommend WHAT TYPE OF CARB are you actually suggesting, esspecially because CARBS MAKE YOU GAIN WEIGHT WHEN ITS BEFORE BED.

I feel like I'm struggling to breath and Wake up thank God

can i eat sugar at night?

Can you help sometimes I pee when I’m sleep

she is rite on the best thing I eat is a banana which defo gives me a better sleep for sure after many many nights testing this out.. without a shadow of doubt by far the worse thing is fake hot chocolate like Cadburys kid on cocoa that's totally filled with powder milk and sugar.. fair trade my ass..

Woah woah woah slow down. No mint before bed? How am I supposed to brush my teeth?

But I like nightmares, they're like more immersive horror movies

Im eating some cheetos should I quit bc it's past 2:30 am RN BTW does eating before bed hurt your tummy

I heard eating before bed makes you poop the next day

I'll do what I want and I want to have crazy nightmares with spiders

Every time I eat dairy before bed it messes with my ability to sleep.