# Does cheese = Nightmares?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 16, 2008, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-cheese-nightmares/472948 "2008-11-16T02:56:28Z")\
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> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> Oh, **QtheM**. Please don’t ever leave us. 🙂
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> That’s the theory I heard in school, too – in fact, it may have been when we were reading “A Christmas Carol” and got to the part quoted by **freckafree** – that cheese is more difficult to digest than simple carbs like bread, and that the extra “work” involved in the digestive tract disturbs an otherwise deep sleep. Or that Victorians believed it to be so.

I’ve heard it as pizza before, as well.

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