Thread: Masturbation-free Routine to LDing?

I read from another post that if you stop masturbating, it gives you a higher chance of LDing during the night. Is this true? Did this method work for anyone?

In my experience it yes to some extent since you try to surpress sexual content and thoughts during the day to stay away from masturbating, they instead manifests during the night in your dreams. It's very easy to become aware that you are dreaming during those moments. Then after a few days, perhaps a week, you become used to your new lifestyle and well besides from not having a tired mind from masturbation which gives you clarity, no I haven't noticed any difference yet.

I am on day 7 myself, for reasons outside of lucid dreaming, but I plan to continue doing this for atleast a month, we'll see what happens during that time.

Until then..

Haha but try it for yourself and find out, or do it the other way and masturbate to see what affects that has. Fap for science!

I've noticed this myself. On the nights I do the act, I virtually never have an LD. Recently I did SSILD perfectly, leading pristinely to about 80% of a successful WILD but no LD when this would usually lead to several but I had done the act and probably sabotaged it.

For me it's the opposite, i have noticed that i have more LD when i have done the act before but i think it has no influence on the capacity to LD.

If this were the case I'd never lucid dream. Just saying.

It depends on wheteher you want to have sex in a lucid dream. Motivation is main factor in attaining lucidity, so if your goal is to have sex in the lucid dream = the more you are horny, the bigger is your motivation and therefore better chance to go lucid. I used this horny-motivation with my wild atempts and it was one of the few wild/deild methods that have worked for me. Sex/masturbation alone does not have impact on lucid dreaming frequency.

I had my first stable and very clear LD two nights ago and i did "the act" that same night. Besides i doubt itll surpress the desire, 5 minutes after and the desire is still just as strong for me lol

For me , it worked quiet well. Maybe a placebo but I got many small lucids during a week which is much for me.

Hmm! I'll be unable to masturbate for about a week, so we'll see what this leads to...

Was that my post from a long time ago? And yes I've found the less you masturbate the more motivation and awareness you have. Of course everybody responds differently though.

Check my Dream Journal, lots of sex dreams. But also higher awareness, both in the day and the night. More action taking, dream journaling becomes second nature and so does studying, working out, picking up girls, reading books, meditating, all the things I used to have too low willpower to do before because I was in a tired haze.

For me masturbation was like a drug, it took more than it gave, it took lots of time and energy.

Not that I was an extreme case, but the changes are incredible and definitely worth trying.

Should I stop Masturbating?
I stopped yesterday. (It's like Smoking kinda hard to quit.)
I have alright dream recall anyway.

I was thinking earlier that if I stopped masturbating while awake, I might be able to better know my thoughts. I figured I could always do it while asleep if I wanted to. In my experience so far, I do it the same or more, just during dreams rather than while awake. Only with the opposite sex involved, it's much better

The other night, I slept for 18 hours, then went back to bed 2 hours later for another 3 hour nap because I was tired. When I woke up from that nap, I recalled a dream that made me want to change my clothes if you know what I mean. But still a little tired, I almost immediately dozed off again, into the same kind of dream. Woke up again, enjoyed the memory of that one, and then dozed off a third time to yet another wet dream. I think that was three in a row there. For the WBTB dreams, I intended to have that kind, but unfortunately was non-lucid in them.

My point in posting all this is that you don't really have to go without that kind of satisfaction. You can have just as much fun, if not more, while asleep. Now if you have a significant other in your life, there's obviously another route you can take.

I feel no difference in thoughts, awareness or motivation when I don’t masturbate or when I masturbate regularily.

I think the LDs might be caused simply by a change in routine.

I love how mostly all commenters are men hahahaha but regardless, I don't think it's the case for me. Maybe it works differently for men and women...

Not scientific, but I've tried both abstaining and not abstaining, and I find no pattern of increased lucidity in either case. And when not abstaining, I still am subject to caveman mode temptation in LDs.

It really depends.

What would help though, is that if you really need to and its night, hold the drive... that can help, but you do not want to hold it for an entire day.

On a side note, it is a good prostate cancer prevention to ejaculate at least 21 times a month. Keep that in mind!

^^ Hey, PercyDoc said I had to! It's for my own health!

Originally Posted by FryingMan

^^ Hey, PercyDoc said I had to! It's for my own health!

Hahahahaha

Zero effect. I think this is just that weird NoFap movement that started a year or so ago.

It's difficult not to masturbate, it creates concern towards the clothes I'm wearing when I sleep, if you get what I'm saying. Most of the time I don't because it feels like a chore to have to clean myself up afterwards so I don't feel so dirty.

Just do it once a week so that you don't have wet dreams. Set a day, like friday, do it on that day, and on no other day ever. Try not to think about it too much, it is just a chore. That way you can basically have the advantages of abstaining and not abstaining at the same time.

From what I've heard and notice lucids seem to come with any change you make to your lifestyle but then stop working when they become habit. Altrnate?

This is somewhat interesting, so, what effect would reduced/increased intercourse have on Lucid Dreaming? Just a thought, I have no idea.

Well, I am married and I have found no impact on my LDing with intercourse... as married couple sometime there is more sex sometimes less, but my LD is pretty much the same.