To Sleep, Perchance to Smell? By Serena GordonHealthDay Reporter — Can the smell of rotten eggs or roses change the type of dream you have? Quite possibly, new research suggests. German researchers are reporting that when people smelled the scent of rotten eggs while sleeping, the nature of their dreams turned decidedly negative, while those who got a whiff of the scent of roses had more positive dreams.
To Sleep, Perchance to Smell? - healthfinder.gov
I would love to test this out - I’ve done years of dream journaling and tracking, and since a lot of magical lore associates sulfur with negative visitations and roses with angels, it would be interesting to see how consistently these are linked even in a casual, totally non-scientific collection of anecdotes.
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I read this headline making the rounds on the mainstream media. It’s intriguing. I haven’t tested it out yet, but I’m going to.