Porn and dreaming

[Vitor]

INTRODUCTION I made a little research on how porn viewing affects dream recall and dreams in gerenal. ----------------------------------------------------------- METHOD I took my own experience and the experience of other people in the internet who shared about their porn abstinence. ----------------------------------------------------------- BASIC INFO Information taken from Your Brain On Porn | Evolution has not prepared your brain for today's Internet porn. According to them, regular porn viewing hijackes your brain's reward system, causing the very same brain changes present in chemical addictions. This brings about long term harms, such as losing interest in daily activities, sadness and erectile disfunction on extreme cases. Please note that they are reversible. Visit the site if you would like to know more. The website is based on reports from men and scientific research. ----------------------------------------------------------- RESULTS My experience: When I quit porn, I was not focusing on dreaming. However, without effort, I started getting a larger number of dreams, more vivid dreams, and also: the dream contend changed to dreams involving girls and sexuality. This started happening after about 1 week of abstinence (porn and masturbation). I also had the first wet dream of my life after 27 days abstaining. Other peoples' experiences: NOTE: * All these people were abstaining from porn and masturbation for weeks or months. * None of them reported having any knowledge of lucid dreaming, or dreaming in general. "Last night had sex. Rock-hard and even had a dream about sex with a real women." ED Recovery Stories 1 | Your Brain On Porn "I had some SUPER vivid dreams. One of them was with this girl I wanted to get with a long time ago. First we were laying down, then one thing led to the next and we were having sex in the dream. It felt crazy real. For real, for real. Then I had a nocturnal emission. It was a huge explosion and I woke up. Stains all over me. I was like F*ck! But it wasn't that bad." Age 23 - Metamorphosis into chick magnet | Your Brain On Porn "I had a vivid dream. I was watching and kind of participating in a pornographic scene. There weren't cameras, but actors from the porn world I recognized were there. I believe I was having sex with the actress but I don't recall for certain, I may have just been watching." Age 26 - ED, Relapses | Your Brain On Porn ----------------------------------------------------------- CONCLUSION Abstaining from porn definitely increase our success in dreaming, by increasing dream recall and dream vividness. That means a higher chance of getting DILDs, and more motivation, because you start dreaming with a lot more ease. Also, if you are into lucid dreaming for dream sex, this will be a HUGE way to improve, considering you will have a greater number of naturally occuring sexual dreams.

[caspermorgan]

very interesting...

[Vitor]

If anyone could post here if you will try it, and give us feedback after a few weeks, it will be appreciated. Instructions: *Abstain from both porn and masturbation. *If you fail to abstain, just try again, failures in this matter are very frequent. *The results for girls aren't predictable, the research and is focused on males. *Sex is allowed. Remember: We are looking for improvements on lucid dreaming quality in general and dream recall, not just sexual dreams. (Although it's also great for this end.) Etc: Don't be ashamed of participating, all men watch porn: All men watch porn.

[Thinker]

WOW! thanks alot for posting this man! I checked the site and it really spoke to me, not in the sense of LD'ing but in the porn-addiction thing... I think I'm gonna go to that thread about not jerking off for 365 days lol.

[Vitor]

I'm glad I could help, cheeers.

[dutchraptor]

Post this in the 365 days not jerking thread, might as well let them do it for a good cause.

[AtropineDreams]

Etc: Don't be ashamed of participating, all men watch porn: That article is misleading and a logical fallacy. Just because all males may have seen, been exposed to, looked at or viewed porn at some part of their lives should not conclude that "all men watch porn"- essentially implying that all men continue to regularly and actively seek out pornographic content to view.