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What do wet dreams mean?

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by Experiment1996, Feb 16, 2024.

  1. Experiment1996

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    Hey guys.

    Every time I have a wet dream, it feels like I'm having a relapse. The longer I don't lose my semen, the more positive, aggressive I become. Social anxiety is less and I'm more confident. I take things lightly and am just positive that everything I set out to do will work out. I feel stronger. More emotionally stable. I have a positive feeling in my chest. It feels good. I feel strong. It feels like nobody can do anything to me. I feel stronger at work. Work is easier.

    I usually have a wet dream once a week. On the first day I am very negative. It feels like a relapse. I lose the desire to live, etc. No motivation... On the second day, a little positivity comes back. On the 3rd day I feel ok. I have mood swings for about 3 days after a wet dream and then on the 4th day the anhedonia sets in. Today is the 5th day I feel "good". Does anyone have the same experience as me?

    A wet dream has bad effects on me. I lose the motivation to work, I lose the motivation to pursue my goals. I'm so negative then. Even when I don't want to be. It just happens. I try everything to avoid a wet dream, but it still doesn't work.
     
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    In general, I find that my personality is changing. I used to be prejudiced against certain people and I was even a bit racist. But now it seems like I have a lot more patience with people and I like all ethnicities. I have more compassion for people. I am more open. I'm more tolerant. I can feel compassion. My emotions are constantly changing. Sometimes I'm like this, then like that. I don't know what's going on.
     
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    And suddenly I can imagine a relationship with a woman who isn't so pretty.
     
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    But the strange thing is that the longer I don't lose my sperm, the more physically exhausted I feel. A physical change takes place. Hence this physical exhaustion. Something happens to the sperm and the body.
     
  5. Experiment1996

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    You've probably noticed that I sometimes make a stable impression, then a negative impression, then positive, then childish, then aggressive, and so on.
     
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    It sounds crazy but leaving the sperm inside will eventually lead to healing. I sound like a crazy person but it really seems to work. There are things that haven't been researched yet.
     
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    A huge change takes place in the body and that is why this exhaustion.
     
  8. Experiment1996

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    The people who post on semenretention or pureretention and say all the time that you shouldn't lose your sperm. I understand them.
     
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    I don't understand what the reason for a wet dream is? Why does it happen? I don't want it and I try to prevent it. Trying to prevent it leads to a wet dream. Ignoring it and not trying also leads to a wet dream. There is no escape for me. Is there any explanation?
     
  10. Experiment1996

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    I have an important day at work tomorrow and I'm afraid I'm going to have a wet dream today. Because tomorrow will be the 6th day since my last wet dream. I know you all think it's just psychological and I'm just imagining it. It's not like that.
     
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    Keeping your sperm inside shapes you into a real man.
     
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    I'm thinking about taking antidepressants if I have a wet dream tomorrow. I am not functional at all for about 24 hours after a wet dream. I just lie in my bed and do absolutely nothing. It destroys me.
     
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    I have never taken antidepressants in my life.
     
  14. Experiment1996

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    Check out the POIS sub on reddit.
     
  15. kenwood

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    And you call others dumb?
    Have you not understood in 4 years how emissions affect a low -sensitivity brain ?
    Yes, after the emissions, there is a post-orgasmic hangover! What's so wrong with that? I've had it for 4 years too... now I almost don't feel the emissions and their effect on me. The emissions also hit me very hard.
    He's already running for antidepressants. Well done.
     
  16. Experiment1996

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    Hey

    We had some communication problems.

    Yes, I agree with you. My brain is very sensitive and a wet dream has a huge effect on my brain. Right after the wet dream my personality changes. Without delay.

    That sounds good. That these emissions no longer have any serious effect on you. How did you manage that? Did it just go away one day? How many wet dreams do you have?

    By the way, why don't you briefly summarize your story?

    I've got a different perspective on the whole thing and that's why I no longer see it as a great harm to take antidepressants. I won't do it, but it's in the back of my mind. It's no longer something I completely rule out. I'll see how the days develop. I no longer believe in the dopamine theory. I was too fanatical all the time.

    The fact is that I had anhedonia, brain fog and very severe social anxiety in my childhood and adolescence and the cause was PMO. I have no doubt about that. I still have these symptoms. Yes PMO has an effect on the brain and body, but I don't think it has anything to do with dopamine.

    1st Flatline - 27 December 2019 - 17 April 2020 - 113 days - 4 months
    2nd flatline - 18 April 2020 - 21 June 2020 - 65 days - 2 months
    3rd flatline - 22 June 2020 - 12 June 2021 - 356 days - 12 months
    4th flatline - 13. June 2021 - 31 July 2022 - 414 days - 14 months
    5th flatline - 01. August 2022 - 09 April 2023 - 252 days - 8 months

    6th flatline - 10 April 2023 - 08 July 2023 - 90 days - 3 months
    7th flatline - 09 July 2023 - 17 October 2023 - 101 days - 3 months
    8th flatline - 18. October 2023 - 13 December 2023 - 57 days - 2 months
    9th Flatline - 13 December 2023 - 29 December 2023 - 17 days - 2 weeks
    10th flatline - 30 December 2023 - 25 January 2024 - 27 days - 1 month

    11th Flatline - 26 January 2024 - ??? It has now been 23 days since my last weakening of the symptoms. Something should happen again this month.

    As you can see, I have had a weakening of symptoms 10 times in the last 50 months.

    I am happy to read your texts even if we disagree from time to time ;)
     
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  17. kenwood

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    Wet dreams hit me very hard at first and put me in a flat line for months… I have a few wet dreams every 1-2 weeks, throughout the reboot. Over time, they hit less and less. You just don't see the progress, I'm sure they've become less pronounced in you too, just a few days after orgasm. This is already progress. My case is similar to yours, I can say that I was healed by 80-90%.
    I have gone through depression and anhedonia, anxiety. The penis is big most of the day and has its own natural strength, which I have never known before in my life.
     
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  18. Gorkhaliwarrior

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    If you want to take antidepressants then go for it. But do you think they are going to help or heal? Even if you take them, don't make it an excuse to go back to your old habits.
     
  19. Anonymous86

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    What? PMO does have to do with dopamine...why are we asking this? It's on YBOP.
     
  20. OhWhenThe

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    When I first started nofap, wet dreams would have a slight effect on me. I'd feel groggy and a bit more tired than usual, sometimes I'd feel a slight chaser effect. On my current streak of one year I've had probably 60 or so wet dreams. They seem to happen in clusters, I might go three weeks without one and then I'll have three in a week, or I'll have two in one night, or four in a row, or none for six weeks. There doesn't appear to be any pattern to them and I'm not doing anything different. Initially my wet dreams would just be me waking up to find I've ejaculated. Over time they would then be accompanied by a sexual dream, I would wake up or at least become conscious just as it was happening. The last wet dream I had was different to all the others. It was more intense and it actually felt good. I laid there for five minutes afterwards as it was such a powerful experience.

    I feel zero negative effects from wet dreams, even when I had three in the same night. Yet one time during this streak I woke up from a sexual dream, grabbed my D for a few seconds, let go and ejaculated. I was aware of what I was doing but I barely even did anything and it happened so quickly. Afterwards my genitals basically retracted into my body for weeks, I felt tired, my head felt weird, my mood was worse, I had diarrhea and so on.

    Some are able to ejaculate consciously and feel fine. I guess it just shows we have different sensitivity levels.

    @Experiment1996 were your symptoms worse from MO than wet dreams? Or the same?
     

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