Brie encounter

• Autores: Andy Extance
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3052-3053, 2015, págs. 69-70
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Extance determines whether night-time terrors lurk in people's fridges. Charles Dickens certainly thought food and fear were connected. When Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted with the ghost of his late partner Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol, he at first assumes it is a night terror brought only eating a "crumb of cheese". Whether or not Dickens's tale played a part, the idea that eating cheese causes scary; possibly nightmarish, dreams is an enduring urban myth. It crops up in several nations--flick through French health magazines, for instance, and you will find stories linking cauchemars with fromage.