Animals deprived of REM sleep suffer many of the same symptoms as animals that aren’t allowed to sleep at all. It helps not to drink too much before bed, since alcohol suppresses REM sleep. For some in that minority, lucid dreaming is so pleasurable it becomes a hobby. Hopefully, they will respond that they are asleep, and a lucid dream will commence. Other tricks to induce lucid dreams include meditating before bed and – as with remembering your dreams – waking up at strategic points in the night.

Source: Daily Mail April 06, 2019 23:43 UTC