I'm going on 20 days without fapping or edging, and I have to say I'm pretty proud of myself! However, I've got that pent up feeling all the time (except for maybe half a day after having real sex). Therefore, last night at 3:15 AM, I woke up with a full erection, totally wishing I could relieve myself and go back to sleep. However, thanks in part to this site and my resolve, I groggily made just one stroke, thought the better of it, and actually stopped! This can be done! I'm a little sleep deprived at work today. Does anyone else have this, where you have to trade sleep for nofap? In the past, I used the need for sleep to do well at work as an excuse to fap, but not now. Anyone have any tips for dealing with this?
I must admit I am sleeping brilliantly for the main part since I stopped PMO'ing. I literally jump out of the bed ready to face the day. But there was one night when I had an intense dream and the following day my head was all groggy. But I haven't experienced one since around the first two weeks in so I would imagine that your sleeping patterns will come back to normal.
I started my first challenge a week ago (my target was 7 days) and right from the beginning I had problems sleeping. Before I started nofap I used (P)MO as somekind of "sedative" nearly every night and trying to sleep without made stay awake. And I hope I had been as adamant as you were last night... as to tips how I dealt with my sleep depriving urges: if I was not able to sleep, I didn't even try to sleep and did something else to keep me occupied, for example I read or played games. And when I got tired I tried to sleep again. Lying in bed telling yourself to not masturbate is the worst torture I know. I'm starting a new challenge today (raised my goal to 30 days) and I wish you the best luck in your struggles. And congratulations for you victory last night!
I started out with good sleep. Especially the first few days. Lately I've had extremely heavy dreams. Sometimes it's like being trapped in the dream and it IS reality. I am not sure why but I am literally trapped inside until it's over. It feels real, I feel pain - sorrow - happiness ect. and I don't know how else to explain it. Sometimes I can control the dream to force it in certain directions but most of the time I am just along for the ride. It's mostly wars / killing / end of the world type scenarios which is weird. I do like a lot of action movies / video games ect. but this is deep / dark / too realistic. Once in a while when I wake, I think what happened was real. I feel like I DID lose my GF or that I DID kill those people while being a protector or an aggressor against a communist state ect. or that my bank account WAS drained or that I DID win the the lottery. I have no idea how else to explain it... it is just "real". ^ that is my only experience with dreams and nofap. might be completely off-topic rant. sorry if it is lol.
