wet dreams - what is in our control?

09. Tantra - A Holistic View of Spirituality
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I have gathered a (pedantic) list of things that, with intent, prevent nightly emissions. I am NOT speaking of the ‘natural wet-dreams’ that is out of our control completely. And I don’t want to hear “just don’t obsess/think about it” hence “with intent”.
Please tell me how you have combated this if you have aimed for longer periods of brachmacarya
Chronological to what I have found works:

  • Empty bladder right before sleeping
  • Last Eating/drinking should be long before sleep
  • Not creating too much mechanical pressure on genitals during sleep; light duvets, no/rightly restricting underwear?, sleeping on back/side.
  • Intention: Not entertain lustful thoughts or using erotic media for that matter.
  • Meditation practice before bed.
  • Last Eating/drinking should be light before sleep
  • Cold shower(lower body?)
  • Headstand asana before bed
    Thinks I suspect:
  • Pelvic floor-Kegel exercise (reverese kegel specifically) is probably good?
  • Veg. food is probably good(!?)
  • When having added mudras to Spinal breathing? Anyone?
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“Pelvic floor-Kegel exercise (reverese kegel specifically) is probably good?”
I can work as an anecdote that I added this “reverse pelvic floor exercises” and these wet dreams stopped.
Altough, other causality is possible because I do several on the list, and wet dreams remains quite abstract.

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Thanks for the update. I haven’t had a wet dream in forty years, but I’m sure many young men empathize.

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To add to this, I think a preorgasmic routine is helpful so you do not get too sensitive down there. In the other hand of course, you will probably get sensitive if you are abstaining. Tantra will be high-reward high-risk in terms of ecstatic conductivity. A bittersweet dance one could call it.
Oh dear wet dreams what we do to let you go, you mysterious nightly courtship :grin: