What's the verdict on masturbation?

[lvlindless]

Is it good for your dreams or is it bad? After all those masturbation threads I still have no idea. I'm taking my own one-week off. I remember when I stayed at a friend's house for a two week period, I couldn't choke the chicken and I remember my dream recall and vividness was SO good.

[tyrantt23]

I actually think there was an experiment about this here on DV with the research team. If I'm not mistaken, the overall result was that refraining from masturbation did indeed increase your dream recall. If I'm not mistaken though, it affected the vividness or something like that. Ah yes... here is the link. Ohh, and just for the record:

[gavin]

Is there a tutorial for this?

[tyrantt23]

Is there a tutorial for this? Yeah: step 1 - stop jacking off.

[tekkendreams]

LOL to the post above , very straight forward answer

[Adam]

Is there a tutorial for this? What masturbating?

[stuetzl]

Is there a tutorial for this? What masturbating? I love imprecise replies with multiple sense

[Adam]

[Clairity]

I couldn't choke the chicken "CHOKE THE CHICKEN".. LOL!! That's one I hadn't heard before! Hmm .. I just thought of a new topic. PS.. TehDugan, I love your avatar/sig picture. It draws me in and I feel like I could step right into it. .

[Vortex]

I think in Tantra it is the ejaculation that they say weakens you, not the sex, if it is the same for dreaming then you could wank all you like, as long as you dont come...

[SEBSTER]

OH....THE MASTURBATION. well i like this topic, just because i dont know shit about it. my personal belief is that sex in general affect your mind mostly if you're a teen. I am not new to sex, but when i stay at my cousin's house i cant masturbate there or bring my girl in for a slurpy ya kn0w? this usually results in me havin an LD or having real vivid and nice dreams. so look there is no way you can stay without some kind of sex if you're a teen cuz its when your monkey needs spankin but you have to realize that if you REALLY want romething you need to sacrifice things including sex if its an obstacle for you. and i say obstacle because some people are REAL nymphs and sometimes they need some time off the pogo stick or out of the lion's den.

[LucidInCuB!zt]

I shot the monkey one time before going to bed and it gave me the most vivid dream i could imagine lol:p

[Xanous]

There's no correlation. I go periods without and I never see any difference. If I had to chose that over LD. I would never have another LD again! LOL!

[Spamtek]

Offering my experience (lol) on this subject again, I think the question of masturbating at all versus not masturbating at all is not nearly as big an issue as masturbating too much. I'd say if you do it more than once a day or two, you're going to run into serious fatigue issues that will screw with your motivation and deepen your sleep schedule (much harder to make yourself WILD, to start with). My ideal number is once a week, because I start feeling a great motivational buzz around day 3-4 of abstention that just gets me doing things in general during the day (lucid tasks among them).

[flight]

It could be that you were at your friends house and away from home, I know my sleep gets a bit mixed up when I'm not in my own bed. Or you could have had your first few vivid dreams and consciously or subconsciously you started thinking I'll definitely be having more then. Kind of like your psychological perception, you know in doing whatever or not doing whatever, and your expectation and confidence in it having an affect. Like your masked intention in positive thinking that it will happen even if it's subconscious, may be the thing that is really increasing your dream clarity and recall. Similar to the placebo effect, but yeah thats just a thought and it may have some involvement in it, as it's got into your subconscious and will be on your mind in some way. Not sure if the phisical affects of not masterbating would really do it but it may be true and could just vary from person to person. Or it's a possibility it could have all been by chance or something else playing on your mind. I wouldn't disregard other things going on around you at the time, but yeah hard to know really, unless some physical tests are done. =D

[MartinB]

I have a friend who was not very good at lucid dreaming, even though he wanted to be. He said that he once managed to have a lucid dream by masturbating six times in one day.

[Truffles]

I have a friend who was not very good at lucid dreaming, even though he wanted to be. He said that he once managed to have a lucid dream by masturbating six times in one day. I highly doubt that "skinning the cat" caused him to have an LD. It was probably pure coincidence.

[MrGrEmLiN]

Maybe the lack of masturbation leaves people anxious and they have lucid dreams so that they can have lucid sex... lol... Just a theory...

[Sornaensis]

I highly doubt that "skinning the cat" caused him to have an LD. It was probably pure coincidence. , that sounds PAINFUL. Oh, and my dream recall and vividness never gets screwed up when i "Beat my meat".

[KxWaal]

I always seem to have the best luck at WILDs when my girlfriend spends the night. After a 'morning quickie', I'll be tired enough again that it is usually quite easy to enter hypnagogia.

[EVIL JOE]

I went for about a week after reading another thread. It didn't seem to help recall, but you might need longer than a week.