What Is The Strangest Food Induced Dream/Nightmare You've Had?
Sometimes if I eat late at night or go out to dinner and have something a bit richer than I am accustomed to, I wake up the next morning recalling the strangest dreams, and yes, sometimes nightmares.
For Instance, recently, we had a delightful dinner out with friends and I had oysters on the 1/2 shell, a Caesar salad and a wonderful parpadelle with a wild mushroom cream sauce.
My dream/nightmare ~ My brand new red leather Coach handbag (which I don't have, BTW) was stolen by a Girl Scout. While we were looking for my handbag, I was thrown out of a moving vehicle that had the doors open, into the ocean. I survived by holding onto a pillow. When I was rescued, I asked the owner of the pillow if I could keep it because it would mean so much to me. She said no. It was part of a set and she couldn't replace it.
I was certainly relieved to wake up from that one! Has this ever happened to you?
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15 Comments:
This is more food event induced...I would regularly have anxiety dreams before big catering events. Last one I remember involved not only the usual getting lost on the way to the venue, product wrong/missing/spoiled, no-show workers, but also my redneck BROTHER showing up in shorts, t-shirt and fishing vest, serving makeshift food to Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett. "Dad wants to see you inside," he said to me, from the line. I walked in the trailer, only to find my EX-BOYFRIEND, who had orchestrated the whole thing.
AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
hungryinhouston at 11:50PM on 01/06/09
I have nightmares fairly often (although not as often as I used to a decade ago), but they are never food induced, they are always triggered by something I saw or heard.
Ironically, as I've mentioned on another thread, this is precisely why I tend to have the FN on after midnight since it seems to be the least nightmare-inducing channel... unless Rachael Ray suddenly shows up, then all bets are off and I settle for a late night rerun of "Law and Order" (which is normally a big no-no for me, but still better than RR...lucky for me, Sandy is never on that late. Now, that would definitely trigger a nightmare!)
brooke29 at 12:15AM on 01/07/09
When I eat something heavy late at night, I guess my stomach is still working to digest the food and my brain goes along for the ride. Two nights ago, I dreamt I was tooling around town in a fire engine red Mazaratti convertible. Next thing I know, high school boyfriend is in the passenger seat and we're both sipping Stoli martinis, still driving. Next thing you know, BF is gone and I'm at my grandma's apartment. This is weird since gram has been dead since 1991 and she never lived in an apartment. We made popcorn. Then I'm off again in my Mazaratti headed home. I didn't know where home was so I drove around all night long. When I woke up, I was exhausted but wanting to call the old BF. Good thing hubby didn't show up in the dream. There may have been bloodshed ;-)
Josdean at 12:34AM on 01/07/09
hungryinhouston ... I almost peed my pants laughing!!!! What a fabulous imagination you have! I hope that you have never seen/or do see a therapist about your dreams because I would worry that your creative mind would just go straight to hell!
I have had some very vivid kooky dreams - especially when I was taking Chantix to quit smoking. I don't miss the smoking nearly as much as I miss the dreams! I usually wake up from those kinds of dreams thinking, "Where the hell did THAT come from!!", but I usually do not remember anything near the detail that you have.
lindy123 at 12:56AM on 01/07/09
Oh yeah ...izatryt ... See above comment ... Hys-terical!
lindy123 at 12:59AM on 01/07/09
Strangest dream from decades ago and I still remember every detail. I was a visitor in a hospital and inadvertently walked into the staff lounge where all the nurses and doctors were sitting at tables eating, like any cafeteria....except.... in the middle of the room....a huge spit turning over hot coals. Impaled on the skewers was a young woman with long blonde hair and people were poking her with their fingers like you do to a steak, to see if she was done. I was horrified and let out a scream, called them cannibals and monsters, and they all started chasing me through the hospital corridors. I had this dream repeatedly for many years.
This dream started after a car accident where I was pinned between a moving car and the guard rail and dragged under, crushing my body. I was seriously injured. I was a young blonde. Seriously disturbing. I no longer have the dream, but I'm still suffering the consequences of that accident.
PerkyMac at 1:00AM on 01/07/09
my uncle has a SEVERE allergy to artichokes, they cause him to get dangerous fever, vomit, pass out and hallucinate. my mom make a baked cheesy artichoke dip, and he thought it was quiche, and sliced himself up a few huge helpings of it.
he ended up in a fetal position in the middle of the road, freaking out that evil deer were stampeding everywhere and stuff was catching on fire.
it was my 7th birthday. it freaked me out then, but is one of the best family stories we have now. he scared all my little friends. their parents thought he was on drugs at my party lol
delilah at 4:17AM on 01/07/09
I had this dream the other night that my BF and his friend were on this grassy road medium on a very busy road next to a freeway entrance. The BF was playing his drums and his friend was playing the electric guitar and about six people were sitting cross legged in front watching. Behind me was a yellow cab that had been gutted by vandals, I went over and peerd in the car and there was this bag, I opened it up and in the bag were 4 uneaten Dick's Drive Inn cheeseburgers, some fries and a couple of tartars. Then someone came up to me and said that some had just left this bag of yum about 20 minutes earlier and that I should take it and eat all of it now. Then I woke up.
pjracz10 at 5:28AM on 01/07/09
@Perky Hugs baby girl! that must have been a horrible experience for you.
My nightmares dont really involve food, but I did have this incredible dream where I was having a picnic in a park with a man that had no face, or maybe it was just a mask. Anyway, it was the most wonderful romantic picnic I had ever been on. When I find a real man do have that kind of picnic with I'll gladly marry him! lol
huneybumper at 8:13AM on 01/07/09
@huney - {{{Hugs}}} back! When you find him, see if he has a brother, k?
PerkyMac at 10:30AM on 01/07/09
My marathon cooking causes these dreams. I once dreamed William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy were fighting at the island in my kitchen while I was frosting a chocolate cake. No matter what I did it would not ice smoothly. I should never watch Star Trek marathons while I cook.
Making complicated pastry often triggers really odd dreams. Once after making hundreds of hors d'oeuvres, I dreamed that Tyler Florence had got in my house and was filming his show. I was upset because my hair was not fixed and no one had run the vacuum.
JerzeeTomato at 10:41AM on 01/07/09
Brooke I'm like you I sleep with my T.V. on. I once dreamed that Tony Bourdain and I were at a farmers market choosing fresh vegetables for soup. That was the good part. Then all of a sudden I'm in a car with my ex holding a can of campbells vegetable beef soup. Yikes
chardonnay at 11:07AM on 01/07/09
@perky I may have found him, SO had a picnic laid out for me when i got back from the hosp monday, blanket and pillow on the floor, homemade soup and he even made bread. maybe not totally romantic, but sweet as anyone could hope for!
huneybumper at 11:48AM on 01/07/09
After eating 5 whole slices of Ray's pizza w/pepperoni I had the following dream: Jesus brought me to a cruise ship where he had all these dead, chopped up bodies shoved into the cabins, telling me he wanted me to join his children and then began chasing me all over the blood-spattered deck with a huge butcher knife. I jumped into the water to get away and saw a nude, dead, blond person floating in a cloud of blood, who was actually me. The dream was considerably longer and more detailed than that, but that's the jist of it. It is the scariest dream I've ever had.
This dream is much different than the one I had about GGGrrrramsey and I in the shower where ... Sigh....
@Perky that was one heck of a dream, girl. And I would imagine REALLY unsettling in that it touched on real things going on in your life.
chisai at 12:09PM on 01/07/09
Okay, huneybumper, that's totally romantic by anyone's standards! Lucky you!
Editmom at 1:38PM on 01/07/09