POIS Compass

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Wet dreams

Symptoms after wet dreams or sex dreams, and the worry about having them.

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  • “Wetdream fear make ocd in form of changing body,blanketpose as I think my pelvicfloor might be too tight,etc,so I change pose,but ik its ocd,but i cant resist so i get stressed thinking my pose isnt good,fight or flight response thus keeps me awake for 1-2 hour and i get bad sleep.”
  • “In my worst years, I had to wake up at 3-4 AM to avoid a wet dream.”
  • “I have, for the most part, been able to avoid wet dreams. This comes at a great cost. But it is worth it to prevent pois debilitation.”
  • “I've done everything I can to avoid wet dreams and I can't.”
  • “What are bulletproof tips to stop nightfall, so, we POISers can abstain and not get nightfall aswell?”
  • “I'm afraid of going to bed because I don't know if I'll wake up with pois symptoms or not.”
  • “The more you think about the more your subconscious attempts to bring it up later.”
  • “My biggest problem is I get wet dreams often too, I'm trying to avoid them. I can't stop them, and they give me big symptoms.”
  • “Terrified to Sleep”
  • “Maybe thinking about wet dreams is what can cause them?”
  • “Waking up with a wet dream+POIS is like arriving at home and finding out you wife is fucking someone else. Also all that precious abstaining time ruined for no particular reason. You can have nightfall after a month, 3 months or even 2 weeks...it's completely random After you have ejaculation your sleeping pattern is also disrupted...usually for a whole week minimum...so yeah forget normal sleep.”
  • “The problem was that i had constant wet dreams about every 10-14 days and then i had severe chaiser effect (very intense and painfull desire to watch porn if you do not know). But after a months the chaiser effect became less and less and for now if i have a wet dream i do not have it at all, but still feel myself bad unfortonately.”
  • “every time when I had ejaculation (sex, masturbation or wet dreams).I get pretty bad cystic acne (after 2 days ).When I started healing from this (5-7 days after ejaculation) I usually get wet dreams and that is my vicious circle.”
  • “Anytime I have a wet dream I notice stomach growling and issues throughout the day. At night my head gets hot and then I have trouble falling asleep. Then the second day I feel hot throughout the day and it's hard to sleep because my head is hot.”
  • “I had 5 days of no orgasm and I was on the way of getting 2 weeks which'd mean 70% reduction in Post Orgasmic Illness Syndrome symptoms, but I had a nocturnal emission tonight and I don't have the energy I had yesterday.”
  • “Fatigue and brainfog... unable to meditate due to anxiety... Problem with NE is that it can happen once every 3 months, every month or even every 2 or 3 weeks. NE is the main reason i stopped Nofap stuff.”
  • “POIS combined with frequent wet dreams/NE is unfair... In every streak I had a wet dream/noctournal emission almost every 5-10 days, so I didn't experience the semen retention benefits.”
  • “I struggle with wet dreams right now so when I wake up after WD, I apply magnesium on my whole body. I want to add that my POIS is the same after orgasm in sex or in wet dream.”
  • “but when I ejaculate through nocturnal emission I only get intellectual symptoms 50% of the time, if I do get it, then it disappears within 1-2 days”
  • “if you wake up at night or in the morning those are usual moments where you lose control... One orgasm or wet dream and it ruins 2 weeks straight.”
  • “last week I had 2 in a night and decided that now it doesn't matter anyways so I faped... needless to say that I canceled 2 meeting with friends that day”
  • “I never knew I had it until I did NoFap and at 3week of no orgasm,no wetdream of any kind I got 100% mental clarity”
  • “I did an intense workout yesterday even though I had 2 wet dreams and was rewarded with one this morning.”
  • “Ejaculation literally puts me in a bedridden state for 3 days. Wet dreams ruin my days because the excessive sweat”