Why We Have Crazy Dreams
Everyone’s had them; dreams so vivid and bizarre, you wake up in the morning with full recollection, totally bewildered.
I dreamed last night that whilst having dinner with some friends and admiring their enviable harbour view, I saw an explosion on Hong Kong Island fill the skyline— similar to a scene in a disaster movie. A mushroom cloud formed and grew bigger and bigger. Buildings started to crumble slowly at first, and then accelerating; every single man-made structure came crashing down.
What’s even more bizarre is that it was evident I was not invited to this dinner. Savory pies were on the menu; one for each person, except me of course. They didn’t know I was coming. I don’t have any answers to the very rational questions you might have about this. It was a dream after all.
‘It’s what I ate’
If you’ve ever Googled ‘Foods that cause weird dreams’, you’ll have heard of Tryptophan. It’s an amino acid found in certain foods, that converts into Serotonin causing extremely vivid dreams. Website My Food Data provides statistics around this.
