Does chocolate make your dreams violent?

[AstralCody]

I have heard of this before. I had really bad dreams last night. I could even "Feel pain" I was shot about 5 times and could feel the bullets riddle my body, and one was stuck in my neck. The pain was really bad. I actually felt it. I had alot of violent dreams last night and I don't know why. I been really positive about things and feeling well! I did eat lots of chocolate though yesterday. I heard they can cause bad dreams. Is this true?

[thedevil]

I haven't experienced this although different foods do have different effects it seems to me that your very belief is what caused these pains as a kind of placebo effect. Which would indicate you have very strong abilities (which unfortunately also would make you more prone to attack in my experience)

[Neil Templar]

I haven't experienced this although different foods do have different effects it seems to me that your very belief is what caused these pains as a kind of placebo effect. Which would indicate you have very strong abilities (which unfortunately also would make you more prone to attack in my experience)

Especially as you've just now planted the seed of that belief.

[thedevil]

Especially as you've just now planted the seed of that belief.

I did write, "in my experience" but otherwise if it isn't true then there is nothing to worry about but if it is true then I'd have to definitely be reminded that truth sets free which you might say brings to mind a Host of ideas

[ButterflyWoman]

Chocolate contains caffeine, which is a fairly strong central nervous system stimulant. Most people just can't sleep if they have too much caffeine, but it's not inconceivable that caffeine might produce unusual dreams.

That being said, I've never had that reaction to chocolate.

[Sinera]

Maybe it depends on the length of the time span between your last ingestion of chocolate and the point in time when you fall asleep or start dreaming? Try not to eat chocolate before bed-time then. Your whole body, of course, (and esp. your brain!) needs sugar (glucose, to be accurate) but can be found in many other foods besides chocolate anyway (actually, in almost all of it).

Although it does not relate directly to nightmares, I remember Tom Campbell referring to the negative effect of sugar on any efforts of spiritual practice in general (meditation, AP, etc.).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CFo5ubfNsg

So maybe you might find it helpful. I'd say, for the time being, try out staying relatively chocolate/sugar-free in the evening and see what happens.

[Korpo]

Can't say I ever had an effect relating to chocolate. While I have nights where I toss and turn because I imbibed too much caffeine too late in the day, I can't trace any of that to consuming too much chocolate. Unless you prefer really dark chocolate with high cocoa content, the caffeine isn't that much either. Wikipedia says a regular bar (100g) contains about a third up to sixth of a cup of coffee or third of an espresso shot.