"Oftentimes the physiological effects on the brain and body of dream activities are nearly identical to the effects of experience in waking life. E.G., one's gaze in a dream corresponding to the eye movements of R.E.M., dreaming breathing corresponding to actual respiration etc. there's research behind this. check out 'Lucid Dreaming' by Stephen LaBerge. And besides, In 90% of my dream sex experiences [lucid and non-lucid], upon dream orgasm I end up creaming in my pants in real life. and it sucks because that's when i wake up and I have to change."
Well these things are not always true. First of all, other than your eye movement, all of your muscles are paralyzed during REM sleep, as anyone who has ever woken up (or tried to awaken from a nightmare) to find themselves paralyzed will tell you. This is a freak lucid experience (somewhat common for those involuntarily experiencing it, and those with narcolepsy) that gives the dreamer an (often terrifying) window into a unique biological advantage; namely, that when you dream of, say, running, your arms and legs aren't thrashing about potentially injuring you. Personally, I even found it near impossible to open my eyes or cry out for help.
Similarly, breathing in a dream does not match your real breathing. I refer again to the "awareness during sleep paralysis / hypnamompic/gogic hallucination" experience I describe above. There might be a crushing weight on the chest making breathing difficult or impossible and adding to the terror. You try to breathe but cannot; what you are really doing is TRYING to make your real body breathe from the point of view of your dream body. Since your real body isn't responding "in-time" to your demands, the illusion in your panicked state is that you aren't breathing at all, when in fact you are, but at a different rate.
Wet dreams seem to transcend this paralysis while dreaming. Then again, we aren't dealing with skeletal muscles (just the PVC muscle that creates the orgasmic contractions), and of course the penis is not a muscle so unaffected, as evidenced by its almost contant erect state during periods of REM sleep. But wet dreams are typically non-lucid. I've also had non-lucid and non-wet sex dreams (not many, mind you). Is the goal here to lucidly trigger (at least for the males) a wet dream, or just a sex dream? Given it is possible, can you control which of the two are happening? I mean, if you FEEL the orgasm in your dream, how do you know you aren't really ejaculating?
I used to compare this to bedwetting, but of course this doesn't work for many reasons. First of all, bedwetting happens in deep, non-REM dreamless sleep. The explanation for dreams of being in water or urinating is that they happen AFTER the accident when the cold wet sheets slightly arouse the sleeper into dream REM sleep, which constructs a dream explaining the sensations of wetness.
BUT.... I HAVE had dreams of urinating which (fortunately) have not led to me wetting the bed. In some cases my wet dreams felt a lot like urinating, or having to. So I guess what happens IN REALITY (wet with semen or urine or dry bed) is not predictable even when you are in control of the dream content, and so a risk you have to take. I only once read about lucid exercises rarely causing a bedwetting accident.
Sorry this was such a long speech for my first message here!
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