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/^t/Meals, however, not only feed the body and stimulate the brain, but are also a source of energy for human imagination and as such they constitiute a considerable factor that influences dreams. Although scholars tend to perceive dreams as a product of electromagnetic brainwaves, it can be safely stated that regardless the actual causes of dreams, food shapes and enchants them to a certain degree. Generally, all "exciting" meals bring dreams. The term "exciting" refers to dark meats, pidgeons, ducks, game, asparagus or flavored sweets. Lately, scientists have been concentrating on the cases of people who seem to lead double lives: one in reality, the other one in their dreams. They dream about places they have never visited in reality, they recognize faces of people they do not know, and the dreams make up a whole series. Recently, Polsat Television presented an interview with a woman who experienced such dreams regularly in her youth. Every a few years she visited a far-away planet on which there lived only women. She felt as if she had been bred by somebody. It is probable that she had eaten a well-done meal before falling asleep. Additionally, judging from her happiness, good humor and outlooks, the interlocutor must have been a keen connoisseur.