I wonder too. It doesn't say so on the DT page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens But I read

I wonder too. It doesn't say so on the DT page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens 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/ 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).