Why is it Always in the Food?

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By their nature, dreams are often weird. But sometimes they of course take on a very different kind of weird, and usually when that happens, our first thought tends to be, "Must have been something in what I ate," and that often strikes me as funny. Not in a ha-ha way. But it's just strange to me that whenever our dreams are particularly weird, we tend to blame the food for it. Granted, perhaps the phrase, "We are what we eat," has some application here. After all, foods do contain chemicals and other things which do affect our bodies in multiple ways—perhaps dreams are just another byproduct of all of these "reactions" happening after we introduce certain foods to our bodies. I suppose, in that way it sort of makes sense. But is there any scientific data to support that foods do in fact affect what kind of dreams we have? Or is this just something that we tend to say?