From nightcaps to nightmares: the many ways alcohol disrupts your sleep

Despite Dr Alex George’s recent experience of sobriety negatively affecting his sleep, alcohol remains a reliable way to disrupt your rest, in the long and short term

Professor Russell Foster: "REM sleep is when you have your most complex and vivid dreams." Picture: iStock.

With seasonal festivities well and truly under way, some are already fantasising about a dry January full of early nights.

But Dr Alex George, public health advocate and former Love Island contestant, revealed last week in a video on his YouTube channel that a sober night’s sleep isn’t necessarily all it is cut out to be – at least not in the early days of sobriety.