Thursday 20 February 2020

Erections While You Sleep (Yes, Two Hours of Them Every Night)


We've all woken up with “morning wood“ (or as it's often called, “morning glory“) – that is an erection that has spontaneously occurred sometime in our sleep and is still there when we awaken. This is a totally normal and essential biological process, so absolutely nothing to worry about. As teens, we've woken to many a wet dream, either during deep sleep in the middle of the night, or first thing in the morning, where our erection is pumping out juice into our nightwear, jocks or straight onto the bedclothes. Oh, the subsequent embarrassment of having to hide the wet residue from Mum! Had we been having erotic dreams, or playing with ourselves or sleeping in a humping-the-bed position, or on your back, then it's totally understandable that the erection occurred. But what if we are sleeping, unconscious to the world and we still get erections?

I've just been reading Bill Bryson's recent book, “The Body“, where he casually mentions that men can have multiple erections throughout the night totaling TWO HOURS a night (Page 265). This instantly intrigued me particularly as I said to myself “how come?“ and “why don't I know about this?" I would have thought that creating erections to that length of time would have somehow been noticeable to me. But no.

Naturally, I investigated further. 

It seems that most of us healthy men (or those of us without erectile dysfunction) can achieve three to five erections overnight during sleep, with each of them lasting some 30 minutes in duration. And all of this amazing wood not needing any physical, visual or mental stimuli in order to achieve their creation. They are usual during the aspect of sleep known as REM (Rapid Eye Movement) and are regarded as useful for ongoing penile health.

The medical term is Nocturnal Penile Tumescence (or NPT) and it's where blood moves into the penis following some stimulus. These multiple erections are regarded by the medical profession as a sure sign of a healthy adult male individual. If you suffer from depression, heart disease, low testosterone, diabetes or that you've had a prostate intervention, then there is a high likelihood that you will not be getting such erections. And seeing you asked, yes, women do have similar clitoral erections while sleeping. 

Men's bodies do change as they age, and these erections, especially the “morning wood“ is an indicator that this erection was the last of the many raised overnight. Without this wake-up indicator, it's likely there weren't any other erections during the night.


So, what causes these multiple – and sustained – erections? Nobody yet knows! Theories include the rapid eye movement exciting testosterone, a full bladder, erotic dreams, nerve excitement in the spinal cord, possibly when nitrous oxide is released into the blood, when the brain releases the erection-making hormone noradrenaline and/or when oxygen-rich blood is circulated to the penis. When in deep sleep we can also be in a state of paralysis, hence having no control over what is happening within our body.

The measurement of nocturnal erections is also used to diagnose whether erectile dysfunction is psychological or physiological – and yes, there is a device to do the measuring – a Rigiscan. It is strapped to a leg and has a feeder length attached which then has two elastic straps to wrap around the penis shaft, one near the top and one lower down. It will then indicate whether there has been erectile pressure due to girth expansion created during the night within the two bands and if so, this will be recorded for later computer analysis. 

The medical profession indicates that this nightly penis workout is good for the health of the penis as it continues to keep the penile tissue soft and elastic, and in fighting-fit condition for the sexual day ahead. If you rarely wake up during the night with a woody, then this could be a sign that erectile dysfunction may be an issue to be further explored. 

For me, now knowing that my penis is stretching to full mast up to some two hours a night is better than any other gym regime I could imagine. That's another really good reason to get a full eight hours sleep every night in readiness to putting that “gym-fit“ penis to work for your pleasure. 

Who knew?

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