R: simulating data with lmer and predict (or else) - r

Question

I am fitting the following model
fit<- lmer(y ~ a + b + (1|c) + (1|a:d) , data=inputdata)
to real observations collected in "inputdata".
Now I want to generate various (1000) modelled datasets for a simulation based on the model parameters and the determined errors. I can use
pred <- predict(fit, newdata=list(a=val_a1, b=val_b1, c=val_c1, d = val_d1),
allow.new.levels = TRUE)
but this always provides the same (the most likely, mean value). Is there a way to get a distribution of values, meaning to draw from a predicted distribution?
As asked by #Adam Quek a reproducable example:
#creating dataset
a <- as.factor(sort(rep(1:4,5 )))
b <- rep(1:2,10)+0.5
c <- as.factor(c( sort(rep(1:2,5)),sort(rep(1:2,5)) ))
d <- as.factor(rep(1:5,4 ))
a <- c(a,a,a)
b <- c(b,b,b)
c <- c(c,c,c)
d <- c(d,d,d)
y <- rnorm(60)
inputdata = data.frame(y,a,b,c,d)
# fitting the model
fit<- lmer(y ~ a + b + (1|c) + (1|a:d) , data=inputdata)
# making specific predictions for a parameter set
val_a1 = 1
val_b1 = 2
val_c1 = 1
val_d1 = 4
pred <- predict(fit, newdata=list(a=val_a1, b=val_b1, c=val_c1, d = val_d1),
allow.new.levels = TRUE)
pred
what I obtain is:
0.2394255
If I do it again
pred <- predict(fit, newdata=list(a=val_a1, b=val_b1, c=val_c1, d = val_d1),
allow.new.levels = TRUE)
pred
I get of course:
0.2394255
but what I am searching for is a R function or routine that easily provides a suite of predictions that follow the distribution of my input values. Something like
for (i in 1:1000){
pred[i] <- predict(fit, newdata=list(a=val_a1, b=val_b1, c=val_c1, d =
val_d1),allow.new.levels = TRUE)
}
and mean(pred) = 0.2394255 but sd(pred) != 0

Answer 1

Thanks to #Alex W! bootMer does the job. Below for those who are interested the solution for the example:
m1 <- function(.) {
predict(., newdata=inputdata, re.form=NULL)
}
boot1 <- lme4::bootMer(fit, m1, nsim=1000, use.u=FALSE, type="parametric")
boot1$t[,1]
where boot1$t[,1]now contains the 1000 predictions when using the parameter values defined in inputdata[1,].
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/merTools/vignettes/Using_predictInterval.html
was a helpful link.