Anxiety has a way of seeping into our dreams, creating strange and evocative dreamscapes. Take the Anxiety Sensitivity Test to know if your dreams are being colored by your anxiety.

Dreaming is a thinking process, Loewnberg reiterates. "Our dreams, those strange little stories we experience every night while we sleep, are actually our subconscious thoughts," she says.

Almost half (47%) of participants who believed that food affected their dreams also felt that eating late, in general, contributed to more vivid or strange dreams. Such individuals also reported ...