Some psychotropic medications can result in lucid dreams, it has also been proposed that some forms of fungi can enhance ones capacity to be able to interact with dreams but this is incredibly dangerous in practice. Usually attaining a healthy amount of sleep (8hrs a night) as well as being aroused before you adequately release from NREM sleep, can help you recall a dream.
The pressure of society even has an effect on an adult's self-esteem. ... Men with a family and job are more likely to have a higher self-esteem than those who don't. The images that society portrays on what is or isn't right have affected everyone in some way, shape, or form. It can either take you down or build you up.
Protein digestion would be more difficult because of that buffering action of sodium bicarbonate on the stomach acid, which alters the optimum pH for the action of pepsin, a major protein-digester
