How did rebooting affect your dreams?

Hey guys,

I remember hearing on the Your Brain on Porn that a common symptom that rebooters experience is their dreams become more vivid. I always thought this was a bit strange until after 3 weeks or so of rebooting and last night I had really bizarre crazy dreams. Not nightmares (they weren't scary) just very vivid and strange. I think I was driving on Rainbow Road from Mario Kart for a part of it. Has anyone else had their dreams affected by rebooting?

Hey cakecrocodileshrimp,

Has anyone else had their dreams affected by rebooting?

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Yes. Many rebooters do report changes in dreams, and even having porn dreams for a while, especially early on. I made a YouTube vid covering some of this and other sleep related things here: https://youtu.be/092UH6e0BWA

Hope that helps. Much love

I have intense dreams a few weeks in, vivid, lucid, nightmares even.

I've had a few porn dreams where I fully relapsed, I wake up terrified that i have relapsed only to then realise it was a dream.

Years ago on a 3 month hard mode run I dreamt I was a soldier in combat, it felt so real i woke up covered in sweat.

Also I get sleep paralysis, even when using porn but more frequently when rebooting/attempting to reboot. for those unaware of this phenomenon it can be different for everyone, for me i wake up in my bed, in first person - and feel like I'm awake, then I try to move - I cant - paralysed. Then I get an overwhelming sense of doom, like there is an "evil" presence or something in the room with me, I never see or hear anything - it's just the most pure form of fear imaginable - then I wake up. I've even had this happen multiple times, as in I think I've woken up and then it happens again and I'm still dreaming!!

Some people get it much worse to where they actually see something etc - there's a doco called the nightmare that covers sleep paralysis, its crazy how powerful the mind is.

I definitely used to have dreams where I watched porn, I woke up right after and said "Fuck, I relapsed!" It took me like a minute to realize. The problem actually was that it got me crazy urges, one night I was a second away from starting to edge on autopilot. This shit is no joke.

escapeandnevercomeback said:

This shit is no joke.

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Thatz fo damn sho homie.