question: i recall hearing somewhere that eating lots of rich food before your bed time can cause much vivider dreams than if you were just eating a regular dinner. i think it must be true, because the past four nights i've had very large, very heavy, very celebratory meals (all finished off with various numbers of slices of pie) and i've had TERRIBLE TERRIBLE dreams. nightmares, really. but why would this be? this site says heavy food can "cause gas, and, in turn, nightmares." but why would gas give you nightmares?? is your body really like, oh, toot, oops, NIGHTMARE!

the mystery of the human body.

maybe it's grapefruit. i've been eating approximately four per day.

or maybe, in the case of last night's nightmares, it was an afternoon viewing of king kong. there's enough disgusting, squiggly creatures and freaky tribal natives in that film to give you nightmares for weeks.