[m463]

I wonder too.

It doesn't say so on the DT page here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens

But I read something somewhere that alcohol does something that prevents REM or soemthing, and when you stop drinking your sleep-deprived body wants to make up the REM and will even do it while you're awake.

don't know for sure

EDIT: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2778757/

...supports early theories that the hallucinations of DTs represent an intrusion of REM sleep processes into the waking state (for a review, see Zarcone 1978).

[temp0826]

It's a real rarity for me to drink, it's probably been 3+ years since I've had anything with alcohol. Cannabis did help me get to sleep (though can't say for certain that it was quality sleep since it killed my dreams), but it's probably been even longer since that (I was a very, very heavy user but quit for other reasons).