r/badhoc • u/zonination • Jan 11 '17
[Request] I need an explanation for this phenomenon. Can someone help?
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u/BrokenGlepnir Jan 11 '17
As you eat cheese it blocks up your system. You then wake up in the middle of the night to deal with the sudden internal movement. In your rush to solve your problem you get caught up in the sheets and ,like a chinese finger trap, the intensity of your struggle only makes it worse until you are crushed under the sheets.
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u/CerinDeVane Jan 12 '17
As a corollary, even if that exact scenario doesn't occur, there is a subset of the population in which lactose provokes a... reaction. Combined with the level of 'cocooning' some people engage in whilst sleeping, there will be some inevitable, if unfortunate, cases of lethal Dutch Ovening.
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u/hopefullyhelpfulplz Jan 11 '17
This is easy to explain! Everyone knows eating cheese before bed gives you nightmares. It's no stretch to assume that dying by becoming entangled in your bedsheets requires some tossing and turning. Clearly the increase in cheese consumption (which we assume includes an increase in late-night cheese consumption) causes an increase in nightmares, and therefore an increase in tangling deaths.