OK, I'm being a little selfish here, but my son needs something for his science fair experiment in the spring and I thought this would be a great place to get TONS of data.

This is just a crude outline now and I will add more info later. Right now I'm looking for volunteers.

Problem: Does they type of snack I eat before bed influence the number of dreams I can remember?

Hypothesis: type of snack each night before bed will cause me to remember more dreams each night than any other type of snack.

Variables: There are so many variables, all I can hope to accomplish is to monitor them and determine if one of them is a factor as well. Variables include: Age, sex, race, nationality, mood, fatigue level.

Control: Weeks 7 and 15 have no snack. Weeks 8 and 16 have a different snack each night. The type of snack that was expected to cause the best dream recall was witheld from the lab rats.

Procedure:
1) Identify snacks in each of the following catagories:
Salty
Sweet
Sour
Bitter
Spicy
Bland

2) This experiment will run for 16 weeks. Perform steps 3 and 4 using the snack selections for the right week. Be sure to eat the same snack all week. Example: Chips each night for salty, banana's each night for bland.
Week 1 - Salty snack every night
Week 2 - Sweet snack every night
Week 3 - Sour snack every night
Week 4 - Bitter snack every night
Week 5 - Spicy snack every night
Week 6 - Bland snack every night
Week 7 - No snack before bed this week
Week 8 - Salty on Monday, Sweet on Tuesday, Sour on Wednesday, Bitter on Thursday, Spicy on Friday, Bland on Saturday, no snack on Sunday
Week 9 - Salty snack every night
Week 10 - Sweet snack every night
Week 11 - Sour snack every night
Week 12 - Bitter snack every night
Week 13 - Spicy snack every night
Week 14 - Bland snack every night
Week 15 - No snack before bed this week
Week 16 - Salty on Monday, Sweet on Tuesday, Sour on Wednesday, Bitter on Thursday, Spicy on Friday, Bland on Saturday, No snack on Sunday

3) Before bed, eat the selected food and log the following information in your journal:
Food selected, mood(happy, sad, worried, excited, etc), physically rested or tired.

4) In the morning, record the number of dreams you remember

Like I said I will post more details soon. We will also need to know your age, race nationality, and sex

If you are interested in helping my son win in the biological catagory (and bring attention to dreamviews), post in this topic.

He is planning on putting a URL to this experiment on his display board. Who knows, I may even have my Dreamviews business cards ready by then and sitting next to the board.

( If we do this right, maybe some of you can use this as your experiment as well? )

What do you think? I would like to begin this on Monday October 18th so that there is time for two full runs through the food types.