Thread: 365 days w/o Jerking Off: A self control challenge

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

torture fetish

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

torture fetish

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

torture fetish

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LOL. Here I am.

Edit: But naa, I don't actually have a torture fetish.

Since I have stopped M'ing, my dreams became less and less vivid.. Is it normal ? Or is it only the first days ? :O

Originally Posted by MtSaEt

Since I have stopped M'ing, my dreams became less and less vivid.. Is it normal ? Or is it only the first days ? :O

Oh of course... the first days will be boring.... then when you reach two weeks you'll only have sexual dreams, lol.

Strange, I haven't noticed any effect on dream vividness nor recall at the moment. Though look at the following:

"...this is a dangerous side effect of compulsive masturbation and signals that the brain is being over drained of acetylcholine. This behavior can also drain the motor nerves, neuro-muscular endings, and tissues of acetylcholine and replace it with too much stress adrenalin which is where memory loss, lack of concentration, and eye floaters come from. To fight these symptoms, the chemical levels in their body needs to be balanced."



People take Galantamine as a cholinesterase inhibitor (a chemical that breaks down acetylcholine) to improve dream recall and lucidity. Less active cholinesterase equals more acetylcholine, and thus greater memory and cognition function. According to that info above, 'excessive' masturbation 'drains' acetylcholine and causes a decrease in memory and cognitive function. So if anything, less masturbation should improve recall and vividness.

Originally Posted by MtSaEt

Since I have stopped M'ing, my dreams became less and less vivid.. Is it normal ? Or is it only the first days ? :O

It didn't have any effects like that for me. Perhaps it's because more focus goes to not fapping, meaning less focus goes to dream recall.

By the way, I said my challenge ended on the 18th, but it was actually the 8th lol. So only two weeks left

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

Strange, I haven't noticed any effect on dream vividness nor recall at the moment. Though look at the following:

"...this is a dangerous side effect of compulsive masturbation and signals that the brain is being over drained of acetylcholine. This behavior can also drain the motor nerves, neuro-muscular endings, and tissues of acetylcholine and replace it with too much stress adrenalin which is where memory loss, lack of concentration, and eye floaters come from. To fight these symptoms, the chemical levels in their body needs to be balanced."



People take Galantamine as a cholinesterase inhibitor (a chemical that breaks down acetylcholine) to improve dream recall and lucidity. Less active cholinesterase equals more acetylcholine, and thus greater memory and cognition function. According to that info above, 'excessive' masturbation 'drains' acetylcholine and causes a decrease in memory and cognitive function. So if anything, less masturbation should improve recall and vividness.

^^^

Your recall should start increasing after you've abstained for a good amount of time. Naturally lower levels of acetylcholine while you're asleep is what makes you non-lucid in the first place. The more you have, the more lucid you are.

Originally Posted by Spyguy

It didn't have any effects like that for me. Perhaps it's because more focus goes to not fapping, meaning less focus goes to dream recall.

By the way, I said my challenge ended on the 18th, but it was actually the 8th lol. So only two weeks left

Yeah, and maybe because I'm going in expecting better dream recall it's sort of cancelled out and stayed around the same.

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

^^^

Your recall should start increasing after you've abstained for a good amount of time. Naturally lower levels of acetylcholine while you're asleep is what makes you non-lucid in the first place. The more you have, the more lucid you are.

So spontaneous lucids should occur more often? If they do, then I don't care how much frustration I feel doing this challenge.... (so he says now).

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

^^^

Your recall should start increasing after you've abstained for a good amount of time. Naturally lower levels of acetylcholine while you're asleep is what makes you non-lucid in the first place. The more you have, the more lucid you are.

I'd definitely say this is true. Whenever I abstain I generally have more recall and DILDs occur.

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

So spontaneous lucids should occur more often? If they do, then I don't care how much frustration I feel doing this challenge.... (so he says now).

Yep yep. Perhaps as a testament to that (or perhaps not), I got a lucid last night and it's now day 3.

Niceee. I had a lucid last night too. So I don't know what I'm going on about.... >_>

Though, I'll need an increasing amount to truly believe it, and then a level off.

Originally Posted by littlezoe

Oh of course... the first days will be boring.... then when you reach two weeks you'll only have sexual dreams, lol.

That's how I like it! Haha

Day 4.

Libido is still going up, but temptation has strangely gone down a bit. Maybe that's just today. Overall I'd pin my mood as meditative.

I've also noticed that certain activities are becoming a bit more mind-expanding again. Interesting.

Going to the beach tomorrow. It'll be very populated. This will be interesting.

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

Going to the beach tomorrow. It'll be very populated. This will be interesting.

Haha. God knows where my hands would end up.

Well, at least the visual difficulties are covered

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

Day 4.

Libido is still going up, but temptation has strangely gone down a bit. Maybe that's just today. Overall I'd pin my mood as meditative.

I've also noticed that certain activities are becoming a bit more mind-expanding again. Interesting.

What activities? I've not tried meditating like this... might be interesting with all this 'energy' in my body.

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

What activities? I've not tried meditating like this... might be interesting with all this 'energy' in my body.

A couple things I've noticed are music meditation... like getting into a trance state by having a song on that really puts you in that mood on loop and just letting it sink into the background of your mind. It feels much more spiritual. Meditative dancing has also increased a lot, I can feel my movements and flowing more easily and my stress release has sort of a wider feeling to it. Even just sitting around and letting my thoughts wander is taking me down deeper paths than it had before, I've been reflecting on my life a lot.

Weed is also getting more psychedelic.

Yeah, it was just yesterday. The temptation is rising again.

My imagination has taken on a more realistic sense of depth; movements and transitions are more fluid and complete now and the scenes are reaching high definition. Occasionally I end up acting out a fantasy somewhat until I force myself to break away. It's soooo tempting. >w<

My senses are all becoming more intense too, especially touch and hearing. Sight is getting there. Soft fabrics feel really good. I really feel just more stimulated overall. Life has a more positive energy to it.

Unfortunately all this feeling good does nothing to help the temptation, and in fact may make it worse. X)

i jerked off at 1 week... Shit
But this challenge made me forget and focus less on lucid dreaming.. I have lost most of my dream recall, it has been more than 5 days that I recalled nothing when I usually recall 2 dreams per night.. :$ I don't know if this is related to the challenge but this is not so encouraging for me to get my first lucid dream

Originally Posted by MtSaEt

i jerked off at 1 week... Shit
But this challenge made me forget and focus less on lucid dreaming.. I have lost most of my dream recall, it has been more than 5 days that I recalled nothing when I usually recall 2 dreams per night.. :$ I don't know if this is related to the challenge but this is not so encouraging for me to get my first lucid dream

I think that's because you were focusing too much on not fapping.

Originally Posted by MtSaEt

i jerked off at 1 week... Shit
But this challenge made me forget and focus less on lucid dreaming.. I have lost most of my dream recall, it has been more than 5 days that I recalled nothing when I usually recall 2 dreams per night.. :$ I don't know if this is related to the challenge but this is not so encouraging for me to get my first lucid dream

The quality of dreams should definitely not drop from not masturbating.... You just have to do it without losing focus on lucids. Does it take that much concentration to complete the challenge?