Paleo Lifestyle causing Vivid Dreaming

[rx'drobot]

I have been maintaining a strict Paleo lifestyle with CrossFit for the last 6 weeks and have noticed a significant increase in the number of vivid dreams I am having. I have also noticed that my body generally wakes me up just after 7 hours of sleep everyday, no matter when my alarm is set or when I fall asleep.

Has anyone else had a change in sleeping patterns or dreams after switching diets?

Here is an article I found recently on the subject.

[Guest Snake McClain]

this is incredibly interesting.

[Loren Wade]

Yeah, I remember most of my dreams after being paleo now.

[Laney]

I sleep far less, I go to bed between 11 and 12:30 were it used to be 9. I get up between 6-6:30. No change in dreams, I generally don't remember anything

[UltimoJefe]

I went from chronic insomnia to getting a solid 7 hours a night now.

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About that article...

A) Revonsuo's theory is heavily disputed and may not at all be valid

Reshaping your brain more like a hunter-gatherer's... do you know how ridiculous that is?

If you review your past diet, you'll probably see a deficiency in stuff like B12 and 5-HTP; stuff that makes your dreams vivid. The paleo diet corrected these deficiencies and thus led to improved dream recall. You may also have gotten less stressed because you were eating right (which feels good). I could think of more hypotheses, all of them more likely than the unlocking prehistoric abilities, which is ridiculous.

[Gobnait]

I'm not sure if it coicides with paleo, but I have had nights where my dreams startled me and I couldn't get back to sleep easily, fortunately my mind was self-medicating to keep me unwilling to move while I was some horrible definition of conscious.