I have had a WILD about 10 times now, and every time I go through Sleep Paralyisis I get an erection. It’s nothing sexual though, it just happens. Is this normal? Does it happen to anyone else?
It happens to me aswell.
I don’t think it’s anything dangerous…
It’s perfectly normal, and a lot of people have them when they wake up in the mornings.
Nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT) is the spontaneous occurrence of a penile erection during sleep. All men without erectile dysfunction experience this phenomenon, usually several times during the night[1]. It typically happens during REM sleep and it is not uncommon for an erection to be present when a man wakes up — such an erection is colloquially referred to as morning wood in North America, and as morning glory in the United Kingdom (though in some areas of the U.K. the adjective piss-proud is often used instead).
The existence and predictability of nocturnal tumescence is used by sexual health practitioners to ascertain whether a given case of erectile dysfunction (E.D.) is psychological or physiological in origin. A patient presenting with E.D. is fitted with an elastic device to wear around his penis during sleep; the device detects changes in girth and relays the information to a computer for later analysis. If nocturnal tumescence is detected, then the E.D. is presumed to be due to a psychosomatic illness such as sexual anxiety; if not, then it is presumed to be due to a physiological cause.
The cause of NPT is not known certainly. Bancroft (2005) hypothesizes that the noradrenergic neurons of the locus ceruleus are inhibitory to penile erection, and that the cessation of their discharge that occurs during REM sleep may allow testosterone-related excitatory actions to manifest as NPT.[2]
Ghosteh
January 6, 2009, 12:35am
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Odd, this doesnt happen to me. But when Im thinking of something sexual in SP I get an erection
a rather awkward topic…
I don’t think it’s anything special though, to tell you the truth
I must add that it isnt a very normal erection…
It’s very “violent” so to speak, and, uh…it rises VERY fast…
relV
January 6, 2009, 10:00pm
7
hihi
nothing harmful about an erection…
The question has been answered, so I’ve locked this topic.
