[Everyone, please welcome our new contributor Nick Antosca, author of Midnight Picnic [Word Riot] and Fires [Impetus]. We’re lucky to have him. — Ed.]

Somebody told me if you eat bananas before you go to sleep, it’ll cause wild dreams.  Actually the point was any food eaten in meal quantity right before bed will have this effect–bananas were just the example.  Now I love to eat before I go to bed.  My dreams tend to be vivid and madcap anyway (something I apparently get from my mother, who was always telling me when I was a small child about dreams where she was in an ocean full of sharks or a mansion full of panthers, things of that nature) but food further enhances them.
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