This might be really hard to believe but yes, there are various normal things which tends to affect your dreams! Dreams are your brain’s way of working through unresolved conflicts and they can get affected through various day to day things. So, here are some facts about things that affect your dreams
1. Caffeine in coffee
It is recently proved that caffeine in coffee tends to affect your dreams and leads to disruption in sleep as well. And hence it is advisable to cut off your coffee intake after 2 pm.
2. Smells
Yes, it is recently being proved that smells can lead you to sweet dreams! In a research, odour of a rose was related to positive dream while odour of a sulphur dioxide lead to a negative dream. So, smell something good to get good and sweet dreams.
3. Sound
Yes, sound does affect your dreams. You should always keep the sound of your alarm low so that you don’t wake up thinking there is something wrong happening. Loud sound often leads to disrupted sleep and negative dreams.
4. Going bed hungry
Going bed hungry can make you think more about food because your low blood sugar can rouse you and make you think about food more. This in turns affects your dream and all you think is food in dreams.
5. Spicy food
It is believed that spicy food can lead you with negative dreams. Anything and everything that leads to indigestion can leave you with a nightmare. Avoid spicy food to sleep better.
6. Sleeping on belly
Generally, it is believed that people sleeping on their belly are more likely to get erotic dreams. It is believed that because these people sleep on their belly, they tend to take short breath at night due to which they get dreams of sex.
7. Black and white television
It is hard to believe, but still scientist have proved that watching black and white movie, documentary or anything for longer period of time leads to white and black dreams.
8. Quit smoking
Vivid dreams have been shown to be a symptom of kicking the habit, and in one study, 63% of smokers still dreamed about smoking a year later.
