Waking up at night — is it masturbation or a wet dream?

Only you can answer whether you're conscious of what youre doing or not. If you realize what's going on and dont try to stop it, that's a wank, friendo.

But there is a legitimate 'half-sleep' where youre near a wet-dream, are barely conscious, and some sort of blurry nudging ends in unexpected fireworks. That doesnt count.

It only counts if youre fully, morally aware of what youre doing.

 

Alex is spot on.

Also, you might be a sexsomniac. They are real. I have a buddy who is. He wakes up right before the fireworks and he's having sex with his wife. Something to consider

WRA

 

Here's something interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1et5NgT6bQ Watch the video (2 minutes long), and then read my comment.

Maybe you're waking up during a rem cycle.

I have had the same thing occur to me before. It recently happened again a few nights ago. If you feel your brain isn't fully functioning, I would NOT reset. Just try to go back to sleep. Unless you can remember that you decided to hump something, let it go.

 

It might be the same thing, but I notice myself doing this myself too. If your single it's actually quite nice to wake up halfway till orgasm, but the humping is getting out of control. I sleep with two pillows, one for my head and one to hold in my arms. Don't know why yet, but I fall asleep way faster. During the night I have these 'porn dreams' or just regular sex dreams (I seriously dream about looking up porn since I've quit porn...). Sometimes the pillow is being the victim of my nightly adventures, other times its just the matress itself. I do sleep with underwear on, but that actually makes it worse some times.

Now the problem started to evolve when I got into a relationship a year ago. While spooning my girlfriend (now ex) she functioned as my "second pillow". I actually started humping/grinding her during my sleep. Nearing the end I would always wake up, slightly confused. Like you say: my mind is foggy. I am there, but not fully aware yet. At first she thought it was funny, but having your leg being grinded on for some time, a few times a week might get annoying. I actually needed to sleep with a pillow in my arms again to make sure I wouldn't wake her up with my nighttime adventures. She always joked about the "poor pillow" but it was getting frustrating.

Even worse, when I dream about having sex I can make myself orgasm in my sleep. I am quite conscious during my dreams and can steer them anyway i'd like (really nice not to have nightmares for years in a row). Two or three months back I noticed that during my sleep I always stop before I orgasm (in the dream). Real orgasms during your sleep feel like peeing, and since I've build this brake to not pee in my dreams, I subconsciously avoid it. So for a change I tried finishing for the fun of it.. Well I have on command wet dreams now. I do wake up shortly after (mostly to actually check I didn't piss myself), but it's so confusing. It only happens when I dream about sex, which is often and only if I'm actually having sex in the dream, which is less often. If I do wake up right before I orgasm I am on the edge of exploding. This foggy state of mind makes masturbating really tempting.

 

Hey there, was just checking out the site & have been meaning to register anyways, since I've been posting a lot on the Reddit page.

At any rate, OP's question inspired me to finally register here, in order to say that, yes, this has happened to me at various times. It's never been conscious at all, and I've always stopped the second I woke up. But really, this goes back to high school for me.

I posted a very long post about this on the sub-reddit, and it hasn't happened in a couple months now. Maybe my body is finally adjusting to the NoFap lifestyle (currently on day 96).

Here's the link to my post about this (very similar to yours, OP) & hope this you well:

http://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/comments/1rd5g3/long_please_read_night_41_confident_this_wasnt_a/