Experiencing wet dreams while retaining my seed forced me to research what experts say about wet dreams on semen retention. I, therefore, read several books on semen retention so that I surely know how to end wet dreams and whether wet dreams kill the benefits of semen retention or if the benefits continue to exist despite the presence of wet dreams.
Let’s discover together, through a collection of wet dreams quotes, what different authors and teachings reveal about wet dreams on semen retention.
- “Once I was chatting with a man who had lived in India. When I told him I was celibate he seemed agitated. To demonstrate his knowledge, he referred to celibacy with the Sanskrit word, as “bramacharya.” He told me than once he had been “bramacharya,” for some years. But one night, five years ago, he had a nocturnal emission. This “failure,” he said, had made him decide to give it up! I was confused by what he was saying. It didn’t make any sense. Does a mountain climber give up the quest because he slips back six feet? If you are gathering cherries in the heather, and some accidentally spill from your basket, do you give up gathering cherries? If you are gathering firewood, do you give up the project because one stick dropped to the ground?” – Julian Lee, Bliss of the Celibate
- “The great celibate saint Ramakrishna even specified that such nocturnal emissions — “wet dreams” — released much less life substance than a stimulated orgasm while conscious, and should not be a cause of alarm, dismay, or despondency in those striving to be celibate.” – Julian Lee, Bliss of the Celibate
- “Don’t think of women. Lustful thoughts provoke activity in the sexual glands. If we think of sex, we shouldn’t be surprised if we suffer a nocturnal discharge.” – Bhakti Vikäs Swami, Brahmacharya in Krishna Consciousness.
- “But even a devotee seriously striving for brahmacarya may nevertheless be tormented by sex dreams. In the waking state, he can control his mind with good intelligence, but in dreams, low desires deeply ingrained in his subconsciousness may become manifest. The real cure for this is complete purification of consciousness by devotional service.” – Bhakti Vikäs Swami, Brahmacharya in Krishna Consciousness.
- “Constipation is a major factor behind nocturnal emission. If the bowels are not cleared daily, stool and associated toxins accumulate in the rectum or colon. This increases the pitta (heat) in the area and also exerts pressure on the seminal sac, facilitating the excretion of semen.” – Bhakti Vikäs Swami, Brahmacharya in Krishna Consciousness.
- “Brahmacärés suffering from nocturnal emissions may take comfort in knowing that they are by no means alone with this problem.” – Bhakti Vikäs Swami, Brahmacharya in Krishna Consciousness
- “With practice, knowledge, heathy diet, lifestyle and years of experience, vital fluids can be contained even with the elimination of wet dreams without any ill-effects and only very positive effects such as an amazing sense of virility, potency, self-confidence, emotional stability, divine love and compassion for all humanity.” – Russell Symonds, Celibacy and Transmutation of Sexual Energy for Deeper Meditation
- It is vital to know exactly how transmutation occurs. If one tries to be celibate too early in life, without redirecting the creative force, and without keeping the mind free of erotic thoughts, one may soon experience great confusion and discomfort because an untrained subconscious mind and the raging hormones of youth will fight all efforts to retain vital fluid and force sexual fluid release either through wet dreams or spontaneous emissions during deep relaxation. However, never despair if one fails or slips; sincerely trying and failing to be celibate is 100% better than not trying at all.” – Russell Symonds, Celibacy and Transmutation of Sexual Energy for Deeper Meditation
- “A Jnani will have no wet dreams. He who is established in Brahmacharya will not get even a single bad dream. Dream serves as a criterion to judge our mental state or the degree of our mental purity. If you do not get impure dreams, you are growing in purity.” – Sri Swami Sivananda, Practice of Brahmacharya
- “You can never be free of that which is suppressed. The suppressed sex desire will attack you again and again and will produce wet dreams, irritability and restlessness of mind.” – Sri Swami Sivananda, Practice of Brahmacharya
- “Wet dreams and spermatorrhoea may be due to various causes like constipation, a loaded stomach, irritation-producing or wind-producing food, impure thoughts and long self-abuse done in ignorance.” – Sri Swami Sivananda, Practice of Brahmacharya
- “Give up hot Chutnies, garlic, onion and pungent foodstuffs. Hot curries, chillies and Chutnies make the semen watery and lead to frequent wet dreams.” – Sri Swami Sivananda, Practice of Brahmacharya
- “When there is any inclination for micturition at night, immediately get up to empty the bladder. A loaded bladder is the cause for wet dreams.” – Sri Swami Sivananda, Practice of Brahmacharya
- “All loss of seminal lipoids, whether through coitus, masturbation or nocturnal emissions, are at the expense of the brain.” – R. W. Bernard, Physiological Value of Continence
- “It is possible through a low-protein vegetarian diet to control the sexual impulses and how debilitating nocturnal emissions may be made to cease forever, since involuntary sexual losses are as debilitating as voluntary ones, for the same lecithin and cholesterin are lost.” – R. W. Bernard, Physiological Value of Continence
- “In celibate circles, the male wet dream is known as “the male period”. Wet dreams occur for celibate men typically once per month just like a female period. And just as a period for a woman is normal, the male period is also normal. As these celibates get more and more holy, less and less toxified, the periods reduce and sometimes disappear into nothing. It is typically extrapolated in religious, celibate and monastic circles that Christ and Buddha were not just celibate, but also free of this period.” – Dhananjay, Celibacy: Questions and Answers
- “Adequate physical, mental activity and god-meditation on a daily basis are an absolute must if one wishes to break free from slips and wet dreams.” – Dhananjay, Celibacy: Questions and Answers
- “For semen to get fully reabsorbed into the body, it requires continued periods of celibacy in thought, word and deed beyond three to four months. During this time if unchaste thoughts were to be entertained, semen flows out in a wet dream and no re-absorption occurs.” – Dhananjay, Celibacy: Questions and Answers
- “Physical exercises are paramount in ensuring that the portion of semen required for revitalizing the body is absorbed. Lack of physical activity will make that part of semen to go out through a wet dream.” – Dhananjay, Celibacy: Questions and Answers
- “If you have wet dreams, these are a much better phenomenon than masturbation. Masturbation destroys the mind in all stages: the astral, subconscious, and conscious. Wet dreams are something we battle with on the astral plane. They don’t filter through our conscious mind very much, and as such are less damaging. Also, wet dreams are almost a purely physical phenomenon where the body is trying to purge itself of toxins (on its own schedule), like a woman’s period. It isn’t enjoyable, and it is best avoided, but it will happen.” – Dhananjay, Celibacy: Questions and Answers
- “While the energy loss in a wet dream is much less as compared to a voluntary ejaculation, wet dreams still cause weakness and despair. The subject goes through the sexual act at the mind level. Continuous wet dreams can be debilitating and depressing. The way out is to ensure the prevention of the causes that lead to a wet dream.” – Dhananjay, Celibacy: Questions and Answers
- “Impure thoughts will eventually expel semen through a wet dream. What is required is ensuring that sexual thoughts are not let to grow and multiply within the mind in the first place.” – Dhananjay, Celibacy: Questions and Answers
- “So what is nightfall and why does it happen? Nightfall means automatic semen ejaculation in sleep. Other terms used for it are ‘wet dream’, ‘nocturnal emission’, etc. Nightfall may happen to anyone starting usually from the age of 12/13 years. Nightfall is just little less harmful than masturbation. In masturbation a person accelerates rubbing his penis at a high speed with lot of vigor causing more damage to the body. But in either case (or through mutual sex), semen goes out of the body, and more or just a little less, finally it is a loss. Frequent nightfalls can be disastrous for a person.” – David Baldwin, Why You Should Never Masturbate
- Those doing too much masturbation end up weakening the penis and also don’t give enough rest to it. As penis get so used to too much ejaculations, so even if the person stops masturbation for some time (may be a few weeks), still, the penis may keep ejaculating through nightfalls (usually once only on a given night), causing nightfalls to occur more often. But once a person stops masturbation completely, say for months (or years or forever), then gradually the penis gains strength, and on itself, the frequency of nightfalls can start lowering. Nightfalls are usually the aftereffects of too many ejaculations earlier or where a person has low resistance or semenability naturally in the body or due to some medical conditions. – David Baldwin, Why You Should Never Masturbate
- “Wake up before nightfall happens. If a person practices his mind to remain active in the sleep and he immediately wakes up before it’s going to ejaculate, then he can save himself from nightfall. This is possible, and there are men who by willpower and practice wake up just before the nightfall and save their semen (and all the cleaning, etc.). A person can do that just by keeping a thought in mind before going to sleep that if nightfall is about to happen then he wants to wake up before it happens (first thought is positive thinking that nightfall shouldn’t happen, second thought before sleeping is wake up in case nightfall still is about to happen due to any reasons). By practice it will automatically come to a person. Mind works based on practice. This practice will mostly work and semen will be saved.” – David Baldwin, Why You Should Never Masturbate
- “When the mind is pure and stable, it automatically retains semen and minimizes nightfalls.” – David Baldwin, Why You Should Never Masturbate
- “If a person sees nudity or sexiness often and in different ways, it can also lead to nightfall.” – David Baldwin, Why You Should Never Masturbate