The Stilton Cheese Dream Experiment

[Pharrell Williams]

From Wikipedia:

A 2005 survey carried out by the British Cheese Board reported that Stilton cheese seemed to cause unusual dreams when eaten before sleep, with 75% of men and 85% of women experiencing "odd and vivid" dreams after eating a 20-gram serving of the cheese half an hour prior to sleeping.

Gentlemen:

Yesterday, June 28th, 2016, I acquired 151g of Stilton blue cheese from my local Kroger.

Tonight, I will begin this experiment to see if reports of these mystical experiences are true.

I do not have a kitchen scale, so I plan on eating what I estimate to be between 20 and 40g of Stilton cheese.

At approximately 1:30AM EST I will dine on this cheese, along with some crackers (brand of crackers TBD). At around 2:00EST I will go to sleep.

I will report back in the morning.

Find below one man's description of his experience after eating this cheese.

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[Pharrell Williams]

From a website I'm not sure I can link:

DOSE: 25 g oral Cheese - Blue


I read the article about the psychological experiment involving people eating types of cheese and having crazy dreams a while ago, and then this last time I was at the store, I saw a small slice of Stilton cheese, so I had to try it out. It was the Stilton with blue veins running through it. I’m no cheese expert so that’s about the extent of my knowledge. I ate all of the cheese pretty quickly with some crackers about 20 minutes before going to sleep. It was way too intense to eat without the crackers, and it was very rich. This is what my dreams entailed, as far as I can remember.

At first it was an adventure in an unknown world, I had a knapsack with a blanket and food n stuff and I was able to just wander around. The world was vast and I could travel any distance without getting tired. There were mountains and random bits of human settlement but it was as if humans had died off a thousand years in the past, so only small bits of our civilization were left, mostly consumed by nature. It was extremely happy and fun. The vividness of the green grass in the sunlight, I could smell all the flowers and when I came to the ocean I could distinctly smell that too. Everything was just beautiful.

I settled down for the night on an old truck on a dilapidated highway above a vast, grassy meadow near the ocean. Night came and I could feel the temperature drop to a summer night feeling. After lying down and staring at the stars for a while, I was extremely content and at peace for what seemed like hours. Daytime came and a group of people wondered through the trees to me. They were friends of mine, a few whom I recognized. We all followed the ocean up to a playground. We sat down and started playing in sand. Everyone was talking and having a good time till a tree nearby exploded. We all were instantly on edge, it felt like a battle had started, we looked to the ocean and a pirate ship was firing its cannons at us. It was kind of funny though. Then rain clouds came in at a ridiculous rate, it started dumping rain and lightning started to strike with insanely loud thunder.

For a dream it was pretty incredible, my ears were ringing. We all had to get away from the ocean and hide from the lightning, all my friends dispersed and I was left with only 2 people hiding under a tree far enough from the ocean, we could still see the pirate ship but it couldn’t reach us with its cannonballs. Then lightning struck just a few feet away from us and it was crazy. I could hear the lightning start up in the sky and sizzle its way all the way down to the spot it hit, immediately the thunder came and it was so loud I went deaf for a few minutes. The pirate ship stopped firing and the rain slowly started letting up. The feeling of being in a battle calmed and it was revealed to me that the pirate ship was just phase one of some huge planetary invasion, and the playground was actually a secret, huge underground bunker made hundreds of years ago to fight off this invasion. I immediately corralled everyone into the bunker and started working on the defenses. The invasion started happening almost immediately. The whole defense took days but it all happened really fast and I don’t remember exactly what happened. Soon though the bunker was just too old to hold everyone off and eventually we were all captured.

At this point it started turning bad. I wasn’t happy, I was scared. I was the leader so I was just handcuffed and being dragged around, but everyone else who had helped me defend (fortunately none of whom I recognized this time) were all chained to the walls of the bunker being tortured. Then the invasion leader came up to me and was actually an old friend of mine that has gotten distant lately. He looked terrifying and he had a sword to my throat. Then he laughed and proceeded to ask me if/how I wanted my whole crew to be killed. He then showed me how he was going to kill them but stabbing himself in the chest without flinching and making huge swaths through his body as if it were butter. The blood was dripping down his chest and he was just smiling. The moment he pulled his sword out, all of his wounds instantly healed but then he stabbed me and started doing the same thing. The pain was strange, it didn’t hurt but I knew it should. I couldn’t escape, I thought this was reality and I was going to die. I watched as my body and then arms were flayed open. That was the key feature, I realized there was no way I could possibly be conscious and see these things happen to my body. I realized I was dreaming and woke up immediately.

After a few minutes of warily staring around my room and breathing, I sat up and saw I had only been asleep for 2 hours, although I felt like I had been wondering this world for days and days. The dream time vs real time was the most drastic difference I’ve ever experience from sleeping/dreaming in my life. I’m filled with the post trip feeling of mental tiredness.

I’m writing this about 20 minutes after waking up more for my own benefit to remember all of it, but I’ll submit it here purely for a lack of anything related to it.

Overall, now that I’m calmed down, the experience was amazing. The vividness of the dream was extended to all of my senses in a way I’ve never experienced before. When I was wondering around I was really really happy. And I think the whole battle wasn’t half as frightening as the content and peace I felt that first night, when it comes to the magnitude of emotions. Seeing my friend cut himself with a sword was the only really freaky part. Now I’m off to bed to see if the cheese will affect me after about an hour of being awake.

Exp Year: 2011 ExpID: 92001
Gender: Not Specified
Age at time of experience: Not Given
Published: Jul 20, 2011 Views: 26,360

 

[Pharrell Williams]

1:04 AM EST, 6/30/2016 - feeling hungry, wishing it were 1:30 so that I could begin dining on my cheese.

 

[HanSolo]

Have you been [RELAX]ing?

 

[Pharrell Williams]

1:35 AM EST, 6/30/2016: I have begun consuming the cheese. I decided on Club crackers, as well as "Dare grainsfirst whole grain crackers." The cheese was incredibly pungent; I could smell it through its wrapper. The cheese is white with blue veins running through. As I cut in, it crumbled.

The taste is interesting, to say the least. It's very creamy; as I bite into the cheese and cracker I can feel the cheese melting onto every surface of my mouth. The taste is very rich and strong. There is also a discernibly "earthy" taste to this cheese, as if I had put a moss-covered stone into my mouth. I cannot say I would eat this cheese normally, if it weren't for the possibility of fun, strange dreams. Below is a picture:

 

[Pharrell Williams]

Have you been [RELAX]ing?

Good point, I should note that the only other substances I am currently affected by are:

Claritin, for my allergies, and;

caffeine, from tea I drank approximately 3 hours prior to ingesting the cheese.

 

[Pharrell Williams]

1:46 AM EST, 6/30/16: I have consumed the ~40g of Stilton blue cheese that I cut for myself, with the exception of a few crumbs. I wouldn't say it was a struggle to get it down, but it wasn't the most enjoyable cheese experience I have ever had. I will write a few more ****posts on these boards, get ready for sleep, then await my adventure.

 

[Pharrell Williams]

2:06 AM EST, 6/30/16: Lying my head down on the pillow. Drifting off to sleep. Hoping for wild adventures. Hoping for sexytimes.

 

[Hippasus]

Godspeed.

 

[Pharrell Williams]

3:00 AM EST, 6/29/16: Cannot get to sleep. Feel like a child on Christmas Eve. Considering eating more cheese as to not let the experiment become a failure. If I fail tonight, I will repeat the experiment tomorrow.

 

[Pharrell Williams]

3:19 AM EST, 6/29/2016: Took a large dose of generic Benadryl. Consumed ~20g more Stilton. God help me.

 

[John Price]

Don't you know it's WRONG To eat cheese or any kind of product from the DAIRY CORPORATIONS DAIRY IS BAD FOR YOU NO ONE SHOULD BE DRINKING MILK THEY KILL POOR COWS THE DAIRY INDUSTRY OH WHAT A NIGHTMARE

 

[Dog]

Don't you know it's WRONG To eat cheese or any kind of product from the DAIRY CORPORATIONS DAIRY IS BAD FOR YOU NO ONE SHOULD BE DRINKING MILK THEY KILL POOR COWS THE DAIRY INDUSTRY OH WHAT A NIGHTMARE

Shut up this is for science

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

DOSE: 25 g oral Cheese - Blue

Good thing he clarified he was ingesting it orally.

 

[Pharrell Williams]

1:20 PM EST, 6/30/16: Not a single dream last night. To be fair though I had a very difficult time sleeping. I will try this experiment again tonight, even though I am sick of the cheese already.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

1:20 PM EST, 6/30/16: Not a single dream last night. To be fair though I had a very difficult time sleeping. I will try this experiment again tonight, even though I am sick of the cheese already.

Eat all the rest tonight.

 

[WeWantTacos]

The experiment was mentioned in a screenplay I read a couple years ago. The protag tried the cheese, but I think he just yelled at an aspie who kept taking his stapler and he eventually threw it against the wall in disgust, then he tracked down an AIDS positive fugitive who killed a bouncer named Blowpop.

 

[Pharrell Williams]

Ate more last night didn't work I give up f u u dum cheese

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Am disappoint