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Withdrawal Symptom: Dream Changes?

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by mapache, Feb 13, 2018.

  1. Feb 13, 2018 #1
    mapache

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    Today is my 66th straight day without any PMO. Generally, I'm feeling much better!

    I'm writing tonight, though, to share how rebooting has affected my dreams and sleep.

    During my PMO phase (usually 4-7x of PMO per week) of 15 years, I didn't really have very many dreams, and if I did dream, I didn't really remember them at all. Despite this almost complete lack of dreaming, however, I almost always slept soundly through the night without ever waking up to go to the bathroom.

    As I've been rebooting, this has changed a lot. Most nights (and almost every night from about Day 35 to Day 50), I've had a lot of really, really vivid and mostly non-sexual dreams, many of which cause me to wake up in the middle of the night at almost regular intervals (2 am, 5 am). Weirdly, these dreams often include a number of people from my childhood, such as neighbors who I haven't seen in 15-20+ years.

    Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Does anyone know what's going on?
     
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  2. Feb 13, 2018 #2
    DE.HK

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    Dude, I had a similar experience. Dreaming every day when the no. of days of no PMO was soaring. It was annoying because I always woke up in the middle of the night and I couldn't fall asleep again. Please keep writing your experience, how you handled it and what happened during the period. Good luck!
     
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  3. Feb 13, 2018 #3
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    I’ve been experiencing this. I sometimes write out the dream right away if it wasn’t sexual. I’m thinking going back to them later might be helpful. If they were sexual I forget the dream, which isn’t hard. Also I’ve been able to go back to sleep with almost all of the dreams so far.
     
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  4. Feb 13, 2018 #4
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    There's definitely a correlation between stopping porn increasing the frequency and intensity of dreams. It's all down to when you're addicted to porn or a substance you damage things like your the white matter of your frontal lobes and the amygdala. But if you quit and start dreaming again that's an amazing sign because you're definitely healing, as it means the dopamine receptors are firing properly In places like the dopaminergic pathway and so it's a good indication of your recovery.
     
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  5. Feb 14, 2018 #5
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    I don't have dreams
     
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