# what's the deal with morning wood?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-morning-wood/183018>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 19, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-morning-wood/183018 "2003-06-19T22:18:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![RawkStah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@RawkStah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RawkStah)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-morning-wood/183018/21 "2003-06-21T12:48:11Z")

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I’d heard/read at some point during my college years that your body did some sort of self-diagnostic thing. Just fired up various functions to see if they still worked.

Legs - check.  
Arms- check.  
Boner mechanisim - check.

Makes sense to me.

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