SEX AND DREAMS
We now know that there are two kinds of sleep which alternate four to five times each night:
* Non-REM sleep: brain is relaxed, but body is active
* REM sleep: brain is actively dreaming, but body is relaxed
Dreams erection
During REM sleep, a lot is going on besides dreaming, and rapid eye movement is only the tip of the iceberg. In a man, although he is completely relaxed and unable to move even one muscle, î part of his body, the penis, is moving, becoming hard and ere This is one of the most important discoveries made in the sleep laboratory, and has led to a very rapidly progressing field in t treatment of impotence.
It has been confirmed again and again in sleep laboratories f men have erections in the dream state during REM sleep. Hence they have several erections a night, corresponding with the seven episodes of REM sleep. This is called dream erection and completely automatic; furthermore, most of the time the dreamer is not aware of the erection. Most men will tell you that t experience a morning erection when they are just waking up from a dream.
Why do men have these dream erections? Do they serve a purpose? No one has so far been able to give a good reason; however I am going to explore the possibilities and îoffer my own explanation of this strange phenomenon.
Sexual dreams
According to Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, dreams which appear to be asexual are in fact symbolic of so sexual nature. In the days of Freud there were no sleep laboratories
and no one knew anything about REM sleep and dream erections. However, it is common knowledge among men that they have erections in the morning. Now we know, of course, that this is because they wake up in the morning in the midst of one of these recurring dream erections. Freud could have also observed that whenever he was dreaming he had an erection. This could have influenced his theory put forth in The Interpretation of Dreams. He maintained that sexual drive was the primary motivation of most dreams, and he even had a list of sex symbols to go along with his theory. Freud, if alive today, would say that dream erections are caused by the sexual nature of dreams, even if the dreams appear to be asexual to the dreamer. Freud placed a great emphasis on sex in all his dream interpretations. Could this be because of his observations of his own erections associated with every dream? But are there other explanations?
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