Both fish and humans have REM-like sleep

Sleep may have originated underwater 450 million years ago

fish brain activity

NIGHT LIGHT  For the first time, scientists have monitored fish brain activity during sleep by using a zebrafish engineered to make a fluorescent molecule that lights up when nerves (green) or muscles become active.

L.C. Leung

No one should have to sleep with the fishes, but new research on zebrafish suggests that we sleep like them.