Put Flowers in Your Bedroom to Have Nice Dreams

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:45 GMT

"Sleep!"

I remember seeing a hypnotist on a talk show who could hypnotize people into a deep sleep just by shouting the word "sleep". Yeah right. But wouldn't it be cool if sleep were that easy to come by? Some of the things that makes sleeping difficult are bad dreams and nightmares. Luck for us insomniacs, there is hope in aromatherapy. A new study by a team of German scientists presented in Chicago states that the smell of roses can improve the emotional experience of dreaming.

From BBCNews.com:

When the smell of roses had been wafted under the noses of slumbering volunteers they reported experiencing pleasant emotions in their dreams. An odor of rotten eggs had the opposite effect on the 15 sleeping women, the German scientists found. They told a Chicago meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology that they now plan to study people who suffer from nightmares... It is possible that exposure to smells might help make their dreams more pleasant, believe Professor Boris Stuck and his team from the University Hospital Mannheim. They waited until their subjects had entered the REM phase of sleep, the stage at which most dreams occur, and then exposed them to a high dose of smelly air for 10 seconds before waking them up one minute later. The volunteers were then quizzed about the content of their dreams and asked how it made them feel. The sleeping women hardly ever dreamed of smelling something. Nevertheless, the emotional tone of the dream did change depending on the stimulation.

So fellas, make sure you start buying fresh flowers on a regular basis. Soon, the ladies will be dreaming of you!

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Put Flowers in Your Bedroom to Have Nice Dreams