A 'friend of mine' often enjoys a curried egg sandwich or two at the end of what has otherwise been a long day of luncheoning. "A frugal, light repaste", he calls the sandwich; but it has an overnight after-shock. NO, not from his bottom, but inside his resting brain. Herein the curried egg sandwich plays merry havoc with the dreamscape, causing 'my friend' to experience dreams that even a poet might find a bit off-putting. Forget about the alliterative charm of "as green as a dream and as deep as death"; curried egg sandwiches make your dreams go all psychotropic.
Amongst my friend's medical advisers tumeric was labelled the culprit, and now we have quasi-scientific proof.
Murali Doraiswamy, MD, a renowned expert on brain longevity and mental health, is head of Duke University's Biological Psychiatry division. He has just released some research findings concerning Alzheimer's. Eating a curry every now and then can prevent this form of dementia's onset. The key compound in the curry is curcumin, which is an active component in tumeric.
Curcumin is said to prevent 'plaquing' in the brain, whereby amyloids can shut down gateways to memory function. In other words, tumeric is a solvent that unclogs the brain's memory paths.
No wonder we have sex dreams after a curried egg sandwich.
(Mustard powders - containing tumeric - can be found in most supermarkets, over the counter, and at very reasonable prices.)
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