#mumbollocks

[Schmilliemoo]

My mum told me cheese gives you nightmares. I believed this up until about three years ago when I found out that cheese contains tryptophan which actually helps you sleep.

Please share the rubbish you've grown up believing thanks to mum!

 

[Rob3rt]

My mum told me cheese gives you nightmares. I believed this up until about three years ago when I found out that cheese contains tryptophan which actually helps you sleep.

The latter part of this comment does not go against the former.

Having not looked this up to check the details, i.e. winging it, I would argue that if indeed cheese contains something which helps you sleep "better" as you claim, this could indeed mean spending more time in, or reaching the sleep state where you experience dreams more quickly, i.e. thus experiencing more vivid dreams, of which nightmares are just unpleasant vivid dreams.

To summarise, cheese can give you nightmares, just like your mum claims!

Taking Zinc supplements before sleeping can have similar effects.

 

[Schmilliemoo]

The latter part of this comment does not go against the former.

Having not looked this up to check the details, i.e. winging it, I would argue that if indeed cheese contains something which helps you sleep "better" as you claim, this could indeed mean spending more time in, or reaching the sleep state where you experience dreams more quickly, i.e. thus experiencing more vivid dreams, of which nightmares are just unpleasant vivid dreams.

To summarise, cheese can give you nightmares, just like your mum claims!

Taking Zinc supplements before sleeping can have similar effects.

Are you my mum..?!? Hehe.

Some gen on tryptophan

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=nutrient&dbid=103

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Eating sweets NEVER made me too full to then eat my dinner!

More of an urban myth this: Sleeping with your hand in a bowl of water will make you pee yourself.

I burned my hand badly (the palm of my hand and the fingers) on an electric cooker (which I'd never really seen before) when I was 10 and spent a night sleeping with my hand in water (we were on holiday on Colonsay, so no A&E for me, oh no!). It made sod all difference to my bladder but at least my hand wasn't so sore by the morning.
It isn't a good sign when you actually hear your hand sizzling!

 

[perplexed]

Eating sweets NEVER made me too full to then eat my dinner!

More of an urban myth this: Sleeping with your hand in a bowl of water will make you pee yourself.
I burned my hand badly (the palm of my hand and the fingers) on an electric cooker (which I'd never really sen before) when I was 10 and spent a night sleeping with my hand in water (we were on holiday on Colonsay, so no A&E for me, oh no!). It made sod all difference to my bladder but at least my hand wasn't so sore by the morning.

It isn't a good sign when you actually hear your hand sizzling!

Fnaar homing in in 3...2...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Fnaar homing in in 3...2...

I was 10, so I doubt it would really have been worth it!

 

[perplexed]

I was 10, so I doubt it would really have been worth it!

I missed that bit!

 

[colly]

Carrots help you see in the dark
Fish is good for the brain

Err? Wait a minute..........

 

[BigonaBianchi]

cheese often gives me nightmares...and it makes me fat even more often.

 

[The Horse's Mouth]

masturbation makes you go blind was the one i remember. Wondered why i started needing glasses at 14.

 

[Archie_tect]

Do you have to use such small text....
"Don't go out with your hair wet, you'll catch a cold."

 

[Cheddar George]

Anybody had their arm broken by a swan ?

 

[Puddles]

If you fall out of a tree & break your legs you can still run

(according to mothers everywhere broken legs do not stop the ability to "come running")

 

[BrianEvesham]

The wind changing never left me with the face I was pulling.

 

[Archie_tect]

Anybody had their arm broken by a swan ?