Sleeping on your back can induce weirder, scarier and sexier dreams.

Sleep position—whether you sleep on your back, belly, or side—can affect what you dream about, says study author Calvin Kai-Ching Yu, PhD, an associate professor at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Dr. Yu tested nearly 700 adults and found that one sleep posture in particular is the key to the weirdest, scariest, and sexiest dreams: Belly-down.

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Debra Jenkins

This is just speculation. There is no proof of this, so why is it even here?

Jacqueline Tattam

This should never have passed review.

Carole Benner

How can u say that. It’s individual

Susan Appleby

Nonsense! An individual can have any of those types of dreams regardless of sleep position.

Helga U. Williams

My dreams are weird and scary in any position, still waiting for the sexier!!! 🙄

Clm

Quiz club stop this nonsense of incorrect questions. Fact check please before release of questions. Grey zone answers are just no good. They take the fun out of play and possibly learning something

Joanne Serin

I've had more bad/scary dreams when sleeping on my back

Colin McPherson

I would disagree!

Chris Brown

After answering the question and getting it wrong, I would have thought that the correct answer you supplied was wrong so I looked it up for further info and found... What kind of dreams do you have when you sleep on your back? Back sleepers also may be more likely to have nightmares—and research indicates they may also have a harder time recalling their dreams. Stomach sleepers, according to studies, experience dreams that are more vivid, intense, and sexual. They're also more likely to have dreams in which they're immobilized or restrained.30/03/2019 In another study by Dr Calvin Kai-Ching Yu of Hong Shu Yan University, it was found that those who slept on their stomachs had vivid and positive dreams.,

Carl Belken

Helga U. Williams, Same here.

dinieiler

I always thought that dreams were an extension of what was going on in your daily life... So I don't think it has any difference on the position that you sleep in...