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

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weird! This is the thread that has got the most likes I've ever seen on dreamviews. Looks like we have some horny people here anyways I've been trying to stop fapping for a few weeks now and I've gotten better at it. My last fap was about 5 or so days ago? So yeah. I'm joining the challenge

Originally Posted by NarutoUzumaki

weird! This is the thread that has got the most likes I've ever seen on dreamviews. Looks like we have some horny people here anyways I've been trying to stop fapping for a few weeks now and I've gotten better at it. My last fap was about 5 or so days ago? So yeah. I'm joining the challenge

Welcome to it. This gets easier as a habit the more you say no (yeah, like saying no to drugs) in thought, word and action. It's like driving a car, drawing or anything else.

I tried last year and didn't make it through past May that time (I didn't post about it right afterwards as my account password was forgotten and eMails weren't working at that time) but have surpassed that by maybe a month or more now, happily.

Oh man what a bummer. You know you're really suffering when you can't sleep because your minds plaguing you with naughty images I tried going to bed at 9pm which took me like an hour to actually fall asleep because of horny thoughts, since then I've been in and out of sleep and I just woke up for good at 11pm! Welp, there goes my wild attempt. It ain't happening tonight. At least I can get in lots of reality checks now. I may stay up all the way until tomorrow night so I can sleep easier. Man oh man I want to fap so bad...like I get so caught up in it all.. Once a dirty thought crosses my mind it won't go away UNTIL I fap. I feel like if I fap I'd feel so much better but I know deep down that'll only last for like 5 minutes and then ill wish I hadn't. Fapping turned me into a monster in a way, and I'm trying to kick the habit. Lol nofap must look so silly to someone who hasn't experienced a fapping addiction, but trust me. Its real.

why would antone ever try to do that. Its sounds cruel. Our sexual desires are completely natural and seeing how there is a way to act on them without harming anyone and really without needing anybody, I cant see why would someone want to strip himself of that privlige.
Unless your religion forbids you...

Originally Posted by NarutoUzumaki

Oh man what a bummer. You know you're really suffering when you can't sleep because your minds plaguing you with naughty images I tried going to bed at 9pm which took me like an hour to actually fall asleep because of horny thoughts, since then I've been in and out of sleep and I just woke up for good at 11pm! Welp, there goes my wild attempt. It ain't happening tonight. At least I can get in lots of reality checks now. I may stay up all the way until tomorrow night so I can sleep easier. Man oh man I want to fap so bad...like I get so caught up in it all.. Once a dirty thought crosses my mind it won't go away UNTIL I fap. I feel like if I fap I'd feel so much better but I know deep down that'll only last for like 5 minutes and then ill wish I hadn't. Fapping turned me into a monster in a way, and I'm trying to kick the habit. Lol nofap must look so silly to someone who hasn't experienced a fapping addiction, but trust me. Its real.

On my end in the past if I were to actually say yes to it then it would only cause it to come up again. It's like someone in effect saying "Hey, you loaned me money before so loan it again!"

Originally Posted by Hunter491

why would antone ever try to do that. Its sounds cruel. Our sexual desires are completely natural and seeing how there is a way to act on them without harming anyone and really without needing anybody, I cant see why would someone want to strip himself of that privlige.
Unless your religion forbids you...

Without a long rant it's really best for me to go the route I've been going. I don't want to drone on and on and on.

Originally Posted by Hunter491

why would antone ever try to do that. Its sounds cruel. Our sexual desires are completely natural and seeing how there is a way to act on them without harming anyone and really without needing anybody, I cant see why would someone want to strip himself of that privlige.
Unless your religion forbids you...

I'm sure it really just depends on the person and how they feel fapping effects them and their life.

Originally Posted by NarutoUzumaki

I'm sure it really just depends on the person and how they feel fapping effects them and their life.

In a few words, to me "it" is like jumping in a pit of lava in wretched self-hatred; in other words, hell. I'm not going to get graphic here but if I kept this up I might have ended up mutilating myself. Perhaps I merely have been going along with poor beliefs but what's really happening here? I'm asking my subconscious mind this question.

Today marks day one of my NoFap. I recently fapped which I guess was a good and bad thing. Was a bad thing for obvious reasons, but was a good thing because now I get to start over and properly track how many days I've been at it. I plan to update this thread every day with my progress something to keep me motivated. I'm seriously done with porn. It completely bores me now and it takes forever to find something I actually get turned on by. The idea of sex with a women in real life has sort of lost all of its glory now, and porn has started to seem like a better alternative even though I know how bad it personally is for me.
My porn addiction plagued me with nasty nasty thoughts on a daily basis and I found myself only being able to get off to certain things. From the thought of incest, to midgets, to a wide variety of other things. I could never look at a female without first imagining me and her in bed together. I'm happy to say that I am giving porn up for good. Porn basically turned me into a horny monster. I got turned on by anything sex, no matter what it was. I'm personally not into guys or anything, but I won't lie there has been times where I watched gay porn simply because straight and every other porno category under the sun wasn't doing it for me anymore. I want to kick this nasty habit once and for all and get my old life back. I wish I'd never started to watch porn what so ever...

It's a real nice change going away from it, having literally been turned on by a kitchen sink (it was cast iron too) by bumping into it in 2012 I can relate; drug addiction it is. My accursedness was just walking through grocery stores, awful thoughts would just show up. I was even getting pedophile thoughts that way and my dreams were plagued with crap so perhaps you can understand why I'm going through this. I do not want someone pissing on my grave out of rage for never going against these thoughts, I just don't. "Resist the devilish thoughts, and they'll leave you." I also have been suicidal when I did have the addiction. One nice thing is without it draining me literally and in other ways I have other things to enjoy, such as just having an organic potato to eat.

Originally Posted by 101Volts

It's a real nice change going away from it, having literally been turned on by a kitchen sink (it was cast iron too) by bumping into it in 2012 I can relate; drug addiction it is. My accursedness was just walking through grocery stores, awful thoughts would just show up. I was even getting pedophile thoughts that way and my dreams were plagued with crap so perhaps you can understand why I'm going through this. I do not want someone pissing on my grave out of rage for never going against these thoughts, I just don't. "Resist the devilish thoughts, and they'll leave you." I also have been suicidal when I did have the addiction. One nice thing is without it draining me literally and in other ways I have other things to enjoy, such as just having an organic potato to eat.

Yeah i have this thing called pure obsession obsessive compulsive disorder or Pure-o OCD for short. Which basically means i get plagued by unwanted re-occuring thoughts on a daily basis. A person without pure- o OCD would just let the thoughts go and think they are silly, but in my case the thoughts stick around for a bit, go away and come back. Sometimes i was even starting to believe those thoughts. Over time i learned to meditate to quiet my mind and i also learned that "I am not my thoughts" having started meditation i've been feeling really good and i've also been repeating positive affirmations and what not. You can see how having a porn addiction and Pure-O OCD could be a bad thing. It sucks getting plagued by unwanted sexual thoughts on a daily basis. I am proud to say that i am now on a path to self recovery

Update: Day One Completed. Tomorrow shall be a breeze as well.

Originally Posted by NarutoUzumaki

Yeah i have this thing called pure obsession obsessive compulsive disorder or Pure-o OCD for short. Which basically means i get plagued by unwanted re-occuring thoughts on a daily basis. A person without pure- o OCDE would just let the thoughts go and think they are silly, but in my case the thoughts stick around for a bit, go away and come back. Sometimes i was even starting to believe those thoughts. Over time i learned to meditate to quiet my mind and i also learned that "I am not my thoughts" having started meditation i've been feeling really good and i've also been repeating positive affirmations and what not. You can see how having a porn addiction and Pure-O OCD could be a bad thing. It sucks getting plagued by unwanted sexual thoughts on a daily basis. I am proud to say that i am now on a path to self recovery

Update: Day One Completed. Tomorrow shall be a breeze as well.

I've been obsessive over various thoughts too; in much repetition I'd continue saying things like an insult in my mind. It's not every day for me but at times when I thought something was particularly horrible of me I'd just obsess over it. In later 2013 I kept thinking of the Nirvana song "I Hate Myself And Want To Die" and some time later kept listening to Mudhoney's songs "In 'N' Out of Grace" and "Touch Me I'm Sick" but thinking of the latter song in a "Please Jesus Christ, have mercy on me" way. Oh and there was also "Rose Petal Blues" by Flipron, but that's a not so commonly known song though the lyrics are about pondering self-loathing; "Should I bow my head low! Should I bow my head low! Should I bow my head low, low low?" Still, they're a pretty good band in regards for me expressing how I felt about myself.

Originally Posted by NarutoUzumaki

Today marks day one of my NoFap. I recently fapped which I guess was a good and bad thing. Was a bad thing for obvious reasons, but was a good thing because now I get to start over and properly track how many days I've been at it. I plan to update this thread every day with my progress something to keep me motivated. I'm seriously done with porn. It completely bores me now and it takes forever to find something I actually get turned on by. The idea of sex with a women in real life has sort of lost all of its glory now, and porn has started to seem like a better alternative even though I know how bad it personally is for me.
My porn addiction plagued me with nasty nasty thoughts on a daily basis and I found myself only being able to get off to certain things. From the thought of incest, to midgets, to a wide variety of other things. I could never look at a female without first imagining me and her in bed together. I'm happy to say that I am giving porn up for good. Porn basically turned me into a horny monster. I got turned on by anything sex, no matter what it was. I'm personally not into guys or anything, but I won't lie there has been times where I watched gay porn simply because straight and every other porno category under the sun wasn't doing it for me anymore. I want to kick this nasty habit once and for all and get my old life back. I wish I'd never started to watch porn what so ever...

So I am a bit confused. Even though apparently I made this "day one" post "yesterday"

I am nearly 100% sure I'm on day three right now lol. My sleep schedule is messed up so my days blend together.
Day two was pretty easy but I did get sexual thoughts because all of the movies I watched contain some sort of sexual content. Thought about fapping. But I didn't.

Hmm perhaps when I get daily lucids and better dream control.. No fap will be a breeze because I can have sex in my lucids


Edit. Actually I probably am on day two. I guess it doesn't matter too much. I'll say I'm on day two, sure. One day won't make a difference

I once got pains "there" once while on a N.F. challenge. (not this one.) Just saying.

Yes I'm still going through, no issue. I mentioned to someone who probably hasn't seen this thread that I hadn't "done that" for over five months, he didn't believe me. Oh well.

167/168 out of 365.

Nearly 50% of the way there! Again on the reasoning why: I just found not going this way to be plum depressing. People would ask "What did you do today?" then my thought would go straight to you know what instead of anything else...

I'm not just going to go 365 days, I'm just counting Round 1 here.

Originally Posted by 101Volts

167/168 out of 365.

Nearly 50% of the way there! Again on the reasoning why: I just found not going this way to be plum depressing. People would ask "What did you do today?" then my thought would go straight to you know what instead of anything else...

I'm not just going to go 365 days, I'm just counting Round 1 here.

173/174 out of 365.

Stupid temptation. Thought "I'm not doing that". Next thought: "Oh yes you are, under my jurisdiction." "NO, I'M NOT UNDER YOUR JURISDICTION. AWAY AWAY YOU DEMONS OF STUPIDITY."

178/179 out of 365+... This is nearly the halfway point, oh yes. I'm gladdened.

Note: This is not counting cases of waking up from sleep, it's only in cases of being conscious. I was occasionally (while asleep) thinking I could get away with it if I was sleeping, which honestly I don't even want to cause it in sleep anymore. I'm certain I can go even that far to influence my dreams THAT deep, I've done it many times before but on other subjects. So although a W.D. may not count as a conscious one and I've not done it consciously for nearly six months now, I'd like to take this to even THAT much of a deeper level, yes I would. Yes.

P.S. Conscious choice going of going too hot = burn to me.

Can someone tell me on what page the OP failed? I'm intrigued.
NVM, found it.

On the topic I have only this to say: I am single, have always been single, and will likely be single for the rest of my life. I have made jacking off into a sport, and I do it habitually every evening and every morning. If I do NOT, I get very uneasy, cranky and almost obsessive about "getting it done" before trying to fall asleep/get out of bed.

So yes, not rubbing one out for a week would be an achievement for me.

182/183, close to six months. Although I'm still successful consciously here, in a dream I wasn't successful and up and went through with it... I seemed to think "lol I can get away with it in a dream" - First I went into a public restroom, then I went into a secret part of it and then I went into a secret part of THAT secret part. At first it didn't start off with intent to J.O but then with the "video game controls" I found I could and went through with it even though I literally got a red flashing "WARNING" sign upon starting.

Really now, I said it before and now I'm actually hearing what I said again: DON'T LOOK AT ANY R34! Don't even think of it! "oh lol wont hurt" SHUT UP, GO AWAY NOW. WARNING SIGNS, ALOO ALOO WOO WEEEEEOOOOOOO! ... Talking to myself partially here, YEAH... I might want to make this thread a daily visit so don't be bugged.

Originally Posted by 101Volts

182/183, close to six months. Although I'm still successful consciously here, in a dream I wasn't successful and up and went through with it... I seemed to think "lol I can get away with it in a dream" - First I went into a public restroom, then I went into a secret part of it and then I went into a secret part of THAT secret part. At first it didn't start off with intent to J.O but then with the "video game controls" I found I could and went through with it even though I literally got a red flashing "WARNING" sign upon starting.

Really now, I said it before and now I'm actually hearing what I said again: DON'T LOOK AT ANY R34! Don't even think of it! "oh lol wont hurt" SHUT UP, GO AWAY NOW. WARNING SIGNS, ALOO ALOO WOO WEEEEEOOOOOOO! ... Talking to myself partially here, YEAH... I might want to make this thread a daily visit so don't be bugged.

Dream mstrbtn/s3x is completely okay because you're doing it unconsciously so don't take any stress of from it. You can't control your actions when you're not aware of the actions you're doing. Also wet dreams don't count as a failure either, they're natural ( and healthy I guess ) too. They relieve some of the pressure that body might be feeling. I'm on day 140, I'm with you Let's do this! ( Though actually this is no " challenge" anymore. I can't even imagine myself doing it again. Easy! )

Originally Posted by Saizaphod

Dream mstrbtn/s3x is completely okay because you're doing it unconsciously so don't take any stress of from it. You can't control your actions when you're not aware of the actions you're doing. Also wet dreams don't count as a failure either, they're natural ( and healthy I guess ) too. They relieve some of the pressure that body might be feeling.

Masturbation in itself is "natural". And its function is exactly to "relieve some of the pressure that body might be feeling". What ISN'T natural is suppressing the urge to masturbate, causing your mind to conjure up wet dreams to compensate.

Originally Posted by Timothy Paradox

Masturbation in itself is "natural". And its function is exactly to "relieve some of the pressure that body might be feeling". What ISN'T natural is suppressing the urge to masturbate, causing your mind to conjure up wet dreams to compensate.

It's not harmful either not to do it, just because the wet dreams occur relieving the stress Though I don't know if it would be harmful either if they wouldn't occur. Information and facts about mstrbtn and it's effects are so splintered that I don't know what to believe, so I just do what feels right and what gives the best effects. And to me it's definitely NoFap.

I can say I've completed over six months. 185/186 out of 365 days.

And yeah Saizaphod, it's the same with me at this point; not as much of a challenge as it was in the beginning. I'm not going to say it's effortless because it's easy to drift off if I'm not careful. I'm not done yet though and I'm not so sure the in-dream parts are actually so safe since if I'm not careful I could feel like breaking this delicate balance from influence in dreams; they're not a safe haven so much for me if they influence my conscious thinking.

I don't really want to be "dry" but at the same time, drowning isn't ideal either which is why I'm going through with this.

194/195 out of 365+.

Glad I had a dream where I was thinking "It would still technically be such" and didn't go through with it while asleep.