# Postpubescent Nocturnal Emissions (TMI) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 19, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162 "2005-07-19T17:18:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/21 "2005-07-20T02:34:48Z")
Never had a wet dream in my life. From as long ago as I can remember I’ve been spanking my monkey so often I think my nards appreciate the rest they get at night. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/22 "2005-07-20T02:45:09Z")
Not since I was about 13. In France it’s called _pollution nocturne_ by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/23 "2005-07-20T03:50:44Z")
> [@John Carter of Mars](#): > > I think Judy B., back in ninth grade, inspired more of them than anybody else, although there have certainly been a large number of females who’ve served as inspiration over the years. I had a thing for Judy Blume too. 😉 Actually I had a thing for that girl that the protagonist of the second “Fudge” novel with the big butt (vague enough for you?). I’ve had erotic dreams, but never wet ones. I masturbate a lot, so maybe that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/24 "2005-07-20T04:09:46Z")
One thing they definitely did not inform us of in health class was that if you masturbate frequently, you will not have wet dreams. (THat freaked me no end when I was in puberty – ‘AGH NO WET DREAMS! What’s wrong with me?!’) So if you don’t want to have them, give it a whack at a time that’s convenient to you. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/25 "2005-07-20T05:14:20Z")
I’ve only had one. I was about 12, and I remember dreaming that a large-breasted woman (large, but not particularly attractive boobies, even from a 12-year-old’s perspective) was washing her boobs in a fountain. At one point in the dream I thought I was peeing myself. I kept hoping for another one of those “pee” dreams for a couple weeks, but to no avail. I think like the other guys here, I just keep the pipes clear enough where the nocturnal emissions just don’t happen anymore. I call it _MANstruation_. Happy ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/26 "2005-07-20T05:53:13Z")
> [@Ignatz](#): > > _pollution nocturne_ Orchestra name! ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/27 "2005-07-20T07:02:35Z")
I had two in a row when I was 16. I guess so much stuff built up in my pipes after 16 years that my boys had to clean house twice. Ever since then I took care of the cleaning myself. Since then only erotic dreams with no climax have occurred. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/28 "2005-07-20T07:35:00Z")
I’m 19, and never had one. I’m pretty sure that it is normal to have them if there is an accumulation of semen. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/29 "2005-07-20T07:40:13Z")
I used to get 'em, maybe once every few months, if I’d be slacking my, uhh, duties… It doesn’t happen so often any more. Maybe twice or thrice in a year… They’d always be accompanied by an erotic dream, and I’d be very active in them 🆒 Sometimes, I’d wake up moments before the climax, and I’d be able to hold it in. Mostly though, I’d wake up with wet boxers… I remember this one night when I had to change my shorts _thrice_ - I was afraid to go back to sleep because I had no more clean ones 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/30 "2005-07-20T09:43:31Z")
I’ve had 3 or 4 in my life, and they felt gooooood. Erotic dreams, feelin’ fine, and then a very large orgasm in the dream that woke me up to an orgasm happening in RL. I actually wish I could train myself to have more. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to have a sexual encounter with, say, Angelina Jolie on a yacht with some centerfolds getting it on next to you and joining in, being brought to release by those perfect lips and experienceing a great orgasm…all without actually cheating on your SO or leaving your bed. I haven’t had one in a long time, probably because of regular sex. But I wish I could…they were fun. -Tcat ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/31 "2005-07-20T17:21:22Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > One thing they definitely did not inform us of in health class was that if you masturbate frequently, you will not have wet dreams. (THat freaked me no end when I was in puberty – ‘AGH NO WET DREAMS! What’s wrong with me?!’) I had the same concern. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/32 "2005-07-21T03:55:05Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > One thing they definitely did not inform us of in health class was that if you masturbate frequently, you will not have wet dreams. (THat freaked me no end when I was in puberty – ‘AGH NO WET DREAMS! What’s wrong with me?!’) I think people forget things like this. I have an intelligent mother, and a decent health program, and you know what they _never_ told the girls? When you get your first few periods not only are they often (not always, some girls get the works right off the bat, poor things) fairly light, the blood might not even be red, but a tarry brown…which looks more like poor hygiene than “womanhood.” It wasn’t until I was an adult that I learned that I hadn’t been the only one confused about what _that_ was. back to the OP sort of. I still wonder why women have orgasmic dreams too. They don’t serve a real purpose the way they do for men. But they are nice if you wake up in time to know you’ve had one 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/33 "2005-07-21T04:13:35Z")
I’ve never had one. I almost always take a round out of the chamber before I go to bed. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/34 "2005-07-21T05:03:56Z")
> [@gouda](#): > > They’d always be accompanied by an erotic dream, and I’d be very active in them 🆒 Sometimes, I’d wake up moments before the climax, and I’d be able to hold it in. Mostly though, I’d wake up with wet boxers… I remember this one night when I had to change my shorts _thrice_ - I was afraid to go back to sleep because I had no more clean ones 🙂 :eek: Is your name Peter North and did you not fire the rocket for like six months before this? Good gravy. Errr. Let’s just move on. Last night I posted to this thread, played Final Fantasy VII for a bit, jerked off, then when to bed and had an amazing dream about this girl I had a huge crush on in high school. Not wet, but still amazing. I’m repeating the process, for SCIENCE of course. Sweet dreams, all. ---
**Author:** ![Gundhilde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Gundhilde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundhilde)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/35 "2005-07-21T12:13:37Z")
Now, I don’t have a cite for this, but…when I took Human Sexuality class in college, we learned that despite the popular misconception that wet dreams serve a kind of “cleaning the pipes” or “releasing the accumulation” purpose, that they’re actually triggered by disinhibition of a spinal nerve in the sleep. Which is why they would also happen to women, and why they can happen even with regular masturbation, or sometimes don’t happen even without. Apparently it’s just some kind of random, disinhibitive event, and some people are just more susceptible to it than others. Was that just a line of crap, or has anyone else heard that theory? Oh, and female here, so no true “wet” dreams going on (although I suppose it’s technically possible…?) ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/36 "2005-07-21T13:11:40Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > Good gravy. MMmmmmm, _gravy_. I have a friend who figured out where the “You’ll go blind” thing comes from, by the way. Goes something like this: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/37 "2005-07-21T13:27:46Z")
> [@Gundhilde](#): > > Now, I don’t have a cite for this, but…when I took Human Sexuality class in college, we learned that despite the popular misconception that wet dreams serve a kind of “cleaning the pipes” or “releasing the accumulation” purpose, that they’re actually triggered by disinhibition of a spinal nerve in the sleep. Which is why they would also happen to women, and why they can happen even with regular masturbation, or sometimes don’t happen even without. Apparently it’s just some kind of random, disinhibitive event, and some people are just more susceptible to it than others. > > Was that just a line of crap, or has anyone else heard that theory? I haven’t, but I always had a problem with the “getting rid of old sperm” theory. Pretty much EVERY guy on Earth “rotates stock”, so there should hardly be any wet dreams ever, if that were the cause. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/38 "2005-07-21T13:36:41Z")
I used to have loads of 'em in my late teens - two or three a week sometimes. It got to the point where I could actually wake myself up a split second before eruption, and with phenomenal muscle control could ensure I made it to the bathroom before letting go. Saved having to go back to sleep on a soggy bed 😉 Now that my girlfriend and I live together they’ve all but stopped. The dreams involved were nearly always about sex, and ejaculation in my dreams corresponded to actual emmissions - I think that’s why I could wake myself up, as I knew when it was coming (so to speak). ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/39 "2005-07-22T01:11:09Z")
> [@Gundhilde](#): > > Now, I don’t have a cite for this, but…when I took Human Sexuality class in college, we learned that despite the popular misconception that wet dreams serve a kind of “cleaning the pipes” or “releasing the accumulation” purpose, that they’re actually triggered by disinhibition of a spinal nerve in the sleep. Which is why they would also happen to women, and why they can happen even with regular masturbation, or sometimes don’t happen even without. Apparently it’s just some kind of random, disinhibitive event, and some people are just more susceptible to it than others. > > Was that just a line of crap, or has anyone else heard that theory? Alright, like in the Pan-fried thread, it’s time for someone to put his dick on the line for the sake of science. I hereby volunteer. I have not had a wet dream for at least three years. As of last night at about 8:40pm PST, I have not masturbated. We’ll see how long it takes for the nocturnal emission to manifest itself. The odds of it being a completely random event based on sleeping position are pretty low if it happens in the next two weeks. And if it takes longer than that, to hell with science. This experiment will also be aborted if the little walrus has an opportunity for the Real Thing™. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162/40 "2005-07-22T01:19:09Z")
> [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > what felt like a can of Campbells clam chowder inside my undies. Thank you OH so much for putting that in my head. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postpubescent-nocturnal-emissions-tmi/313162.md?page=3)