POIS Compass

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Wet dreams & sex dreams

People say a wet dream brings the same kind of symptoms as ejaculating, milder for some and just as bad for others; frequent wet dreams break abstinence streaks, and even dry sex dreams can set it off.

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What people said77

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  • “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”
  • “after one masturbation i started to get WD every 7-14 days. So my streak is 80 days with constant nocturnal emissions and i do not have benefits.”
  • “Nocturnal emissions are the worst thing for a person with POIS, I know the struggle with brainfog, anhedonia, low motivation that stays days after nightfall.”
  • “When I had sexual dreams I'm mentally set back for 2 or 3 days even though the dream had been dry.”
  • “After wet dreams i started to have severe sexual desire to watch porn....I had a wet dream twice unfortonately for last days... Just feel myself bad physically”
  • “I get wet dreams literally every other day. My mindset is completely different when I'm not in a POIS state”
  • “I always have a wet dream without 1-2 weeks of no sexual activity and still have POIS symptoms.”
  • “if I get an NE, I wake up the next day feeling suicidal and so depressed...”
  • “I found that masturbation makes things worst. orgasm with a woman the second, and wet dream is the mildest. but for many days I had waited for wet dream, but it didn't come.”
  • “I get them from Wet Dreams only. My POIS severity after a Wet Dream is very high.”
  • “I went from POIS after every ejaculation to only getting mild symptoms after wet dreams”