Vivid dreams are well known side effects of both ketosis and ZMA supplementation.

Eating paleo-foods hasn't given me vivid dreams ever.

I have had nightmares of Pizza Soldiers from the SAD dimension torturing me by force feeding me milk, though.

WOah I just had a night of crazy dreams after dropping my food standards for one day while traveling.

I had a bowl of chicken and guacamole, seemingly innocuous but I think the chicken had some marinade that was full of soy/wheat/sugar/ who knows what. Then I had vanilla ice cream with dark chocolate sauce (at the ghiardelli factory). That was damn tasty but I had 1. a sugar high, 2. horrible, interrupted, sleep, and 3. crazy/vivid dreams.

It's ALL about food quality for me.

In Mexico, they say don't eat avocados before you go to bed, as they will give you nightmares. Don't know why or how, but if I eat avocados, I get crazy dreams too.

Onions ALWAYS give me weird, extremely vivid, and very memorable dreams. It took a while for me to figure it out, but I kept a food journal until I realized what it was. Sometimes its horrible nightmares, but I really enjoy vividness of the dreams, so I'll occasionally eat some onions before sleeping on purpose. I've been asking around, my therapist had never heard of it before, but I think its just a chemical reaction some people's brains have to whatever is in onions. Nothing to worry about, vivid dreaming is part of your REM cycle, which is the sleeping cycle in which your brain repairs itself. Its actually a good thing when you dream a lot, as people who can't or don't dream are often subject to dangerous mental disorders.

Happy sleeping.

That's a really interesting topic. Been eating paleo for about two months. The last 4 weeks, which are also the ones when I have eaten 99,99% paleo, have been quite annoying. I keep having the weirdest nightmares I've ever had in my life. They make me so nervous that I actually end up waking up and it takes some time for me to breathe normally again and find some peace.

Almost ever eat any onions or garlic at night though. No medication, no supplements... It's a problem that is beginning to seriously bother me, always been kinda insomniac (probably high cortisol) and precisely at the time when I'm seriously trying to improve my sleep quality , awful nightmares keep making me freak out every night.

I wonder if anybody else has experimented weird dreams with any other paleo foods besides garlic and onions.

Onions and garlic are considered toxic/poisonous in some cultures, especially when raw. These cultures who don't eat garlic or onions say that it makes people stupider/affects the brain.

I honestly don't eat that much onion or garlic anymore, especially garlic.

I am not going to look for links right now, but just run a google search for "onions and garlic poisonous" or something and I'm sure you will find some interesting stuff.

Interesting, I always find that having high blood glucose levels triggers some very wild dreams and nightmares. Hypothyroid problems along with high glucose levels can also lower the heart rate which reduces the amount of oxygen to the brain so you can experience sleep paralysis and other weirdness that you find hard to wake up from. Bad dreams before waking I seem to experience when my insulin levels rise in the morning and my blood levels drop.

I never eat garlic, I have had some really nasty images come to mind on that, but that might have been due to the massive amount of cheese I used to put on my bolognese sauce. As long as I don't eat anything with glucose,lactose or fructose after 6pm I don't dream anywhere near the amount I used to and never have nightmares. I have never thought about onions although they do contain quite high sugars, especially when baked. yum.

Cheese, yoghurt, cream, too much yam, potato and all fruit carbs if eaten too close to bed time always coincide with my vivid or memorable dreams and can give me a thick fuzzy brain when I wake up in the morning.