So this helped me A LOT when attaining lucidity! Give it a try

[Yuskey]

Alright so this may have been said before but I tried it and holy shit it works wonders. So here goes: I've completely stopped masturbating! I'm on day 8 right now with no porn, masturbating, or orgasm and last night I had 4 lucid dreams, 4 in one night!!! I couldn't believe it. Basically ever since I stopped I have had better dream recall and throughout the day I seem to be more aware and do more reality checks. My memory has increased so much when it comes to lectures at class. There's this video called "Your brain on porn" that you all should watch, I don't have the link but if you google it you should find it.

[Avalanche]

Can you sum up the video for us? I watched most of it but I wasn't sure what the exact relation it had to lucid dreaming. Also congrats on the 4 lucids in one night, hope you got everything you wanted to do done in that time. So what your saying is basically if you stave off from sexual activity you are more likely to have a lucid dream... but why?

[Yuskey]

Well in relation to lucid dreaming the video doesn't say much but it's sort of explains what goes on in the brain when masturbation occurs, dopamine release and addiction symptoms. The reason that it increases your ability to lucid I think is related to your awareness, ever since I stopped I've just been much more aware of everything in my life, my memory has gotten better and I don't even know why I just know it has, I haven't yet looked up the scientific reason behind it.

[Arch]

But....its....fun.... On other matters, I guess it might help but I would say it's only a factor and that you just had a 'good' night, well done there though!

[RemoteVicinity]

I thought masturbating was healthy

[Ctharlhie]

The only way I could think this would be a factor would be in terms of altered brain chemistry after masturbation, perhaps there's some hormone/endorphin kick that isn't conducive to lucid dreaming?

[TheSkies]

I will quote this on the effects of dopamine (the pleasure endorphin) from vitaminsdiary.com: "Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is naturally produced in the body. It is present in the regions of the brain that regulate movement, emotion, motivation and the feeling of pleasure. Dopamine stabilizes the brain activity, regulated flow of information to other parts of the brain and controls movement." "Dopamine controls the flow of information to other parts of the brain." And This from biopsychiatry.com "[dopamine] has thus to be considered as a key neuroregulator which contributes to behavioral adaptation and to anticipatory processes necessary for preparing voluntary action consequent upon intention" So it could be that an excess of dopamine affects the cognition during sleep in a way which is detrimental to lucid dreams

[Yuskey]

Yeah when you masturbate you produce dopamine and dopamine is the chemical required for addictions. In terms of porn, the more you watch it the more you find yourself wanting something more exciting. That is the dopamine talking, basically your used to the dopamine fix from regularly masturbating to a certain porn and the new one gives u more dopamine. Basically theres a 90 day challenge to completely reset your brain and dopamine levels and this is what I'm doing. Today is day 8 and I already feel changes, both physically and mentally.

[Yuskey]

I thought masturbating was healthy It is but too much masturbating is bad, its just like anything else, in moderation its good too much is bad

[CallmeSkarr]

the sacrifices a manmust make to become lucid

[RemoteVicinity]

I'm watching the videos now and I'm starting to understand how watching porn and too much of other stimuli affect the brain. Thanks for sharing this OP. I think this may change my everyday life in several ways.

[Yuskey]

I'm watching the videos now and I'm starting to understand how watching porn and too much of other stimuli affect the brain. Thanks for sharing this OP. I think this may change my everyday life in several ways. Yeah it's changed mine drastically in the time of one week, I started a gym routine, started learning the guitar, studying more. All the time and energy I had put into masturbating has an actual use now haha and no problemo always willing to share any info I got.

[mcwillis]

So this explains my drop in lucid dream count

[RemoteVicinity]

Yeah it's changed mine drastically in the time of one week, I started a gym routine, started learning the guitar, studying more. All the time and energy I had put into masturbating has an actual use now haha and no problemo always willing to share any info I got. Yes, it's like it suddenly dawned on me how important it is, and how easy it should be, to not yield to cravings. Now that I can recognise and understand what's happening when I get cravings and know the consequences, it all seems ridiculously easy to deal with. Thanks again, and I'm so glad I took the time to watch the videos, and I recommend all to watch them if you think you spend too much time watching porn, eating a lot of unhealthy food, etc.

[Yuskey]

Yes, it's like it suddenly dawned on me how important it is, and how easy it should be, to not yield to cravings. Now that I can recognise and understand what's happening when I get cravings and know the consequences, it all seems ridiculously easy to deal with. Thanks again, and I'm so glad I took the time to watch the videos, and I recommend all to watch them if you think you spend too much time watching porn, eating a lot of unhealthy food, etc. Yeah even good things should be taken in moderation, too much of anything is bad, the main problem is if you stop you still get urges to masturbate, ive been dealing with a lot of them today -.- they are really hard to get rid of lol I usually run, go to the gym, take a cold shower for future reference if you will be attempting this.

[Marsupilama]

this thread is retarded

[Avalanche]

this thread is retarded Just because you probably weren't allowed to do it as a boy.

[Rothgar]

You just cant "beat" lucid dreaming, can you?

[Nhuc]

this thread is retarded This ^^

[MrMarley]

The reason you're experiencing all these beneficial effects is probably due to something completely unrelated to masturbation, but what the heck, I've been wanting to stop for a while, and have tried several times, and even watched that video series prior in desperation, LOL. This is good enough motivation for me so now I think I'll give this challenge a go and see if it helps my awareness and such. ...DAY 1!

[Skybridge]

I don't masturbate at all and my chastity doesn't affect my abilities to lucid dream one bit. Maybe it works for you because you put so much effort into masturbating that you forget to do other things like RC?

[MrMarley]

That wouldn't explain the apparent sudden increase in awareness, focus and memory capacities O.o

[Strit]

Wonder if this means I'll get more lucids if I stop eating chocolate...

[siuol]

Do you find that it increases your non-lucid sexual dreams? Because not only are they awesome but can easily lead to lucids, so it may help in that way. Also the time I made it a week (I cheated, masturbated, but no orgasm) my balls felt kind of strange so I guess it could increase awareness like that.

[Avalanche]

I never really saw any difference in my dreams other than in waking life, where I felt more refreshed and awake and almost more confident in life if I was holding off.