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Originally Posted by sonicl
I went on a bit of a halloumi binge over Christmas. Not psychedelic in the least, but very nice anyway.
Could the psychedelic cheese thing be related to the idea that eating cheese before bed will give you weird dreams? That often happens to me.
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Yes, I believe so. I know that all cheese contains certain stimulants that enhance the hypnagogic stage (a friend did his Psychology BA dissertation on this subect), and generally speaking, eating anything before bedtime will increase the REM stage of sleep (because your body's processing things, it has more stimulation than during 'lay' times).
But I read (somewhere, forgotten in a most convenient fashion) that because cheese is made in a related fashion to the process of putrefaction/ decay which makes mushrooms in nature, cheese, particularly of the Stilton types, where something non-milky is inserted as 'veins' into the cheese, can produce psychedelic elements.