Thread: Porn and dreaming

INTRODUCTION

I made a little research on how porn viewing affects dream recall and dreams in gerenal.




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METHOD

I took my own experience and the experience of other people in the internet who shared about their porn abstinence.




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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.



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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




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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.