Where's it gone?

Tried everything that worked so well for me before.So true. I don't feel like I have this stuff on demand anymore. It's like there's a mind/body divide, where in my mind I want to have an orgasm and I know what to do, but I don't have any body arousal to work with. I went through a month+ of being completely out of touch with that.

Maybe it's a part of my old wiring, where previously the only body arousal I'd need is an erection, which I could get by rubbing it. When I'm properly in the mood for a session, the body arousal I have is much deeper, like the aneros session has started without me. It's only since I've gotten it back that I notice how much it was missing before. I wonder if this is how women experience arousal. And it's this huge blind-spot for us men.

That's how I experience dry spells anyway. I don't know if there's something here.

I know how you feel about the itching. It never fails right when things are getting good my nose starts itching like crazy lol.

@orgazmo I really think this MMO business is like a meditation. I always get itching just as I get deeper into meditation, and when I was trying lucid dreaming techniques it happens just as you get close to sleep paralysis. Interesting.

@Clenchy Thanks for the comment. I think it's not going to improve for a while yet for me. The body arousal is something that's missing for me at the moment.

I think you pretty much said it already; there's peaks and troughs, and eventually you'll have good sessions again. Just go into future sessions with less expectations, and enjoy/savor any pleasurable sensations that you can sense. I think you're being too hard on yourself by saying you have some sort of an issue.

@orgazmo I really think this MMO business is like a meditation. I always get itching just as I get deeper into meditation, and when I was trying lucid dreaming techniques it happens just as you get close to sleep paralysis. Interesting.

Last night I had some interesting things going on as I was trying to sleep. It was like my body was super charged and I couldn't lay still long enough to fall asleep. My prostate felt gorged and it felt like I had to pee even after I already did. Also some weird energized feeling on my anus like it was being tickled or something. Really it felt like my entire body had restless leg syndrome. Then I had some of those quasi in between sleep and being awake visuals, but never was able to enter into a lucid dream. Needless to say it was a shitty night of sleep. I think I ended up having 3 wet o's after going to bed just trying to get things settled.

@orgazmo I never managed to lucid dream either despite about 2 months trying, and I couldn't enter the hypnagogic visuals either (WILD technique) although sometimes I can induce them quite easily. The http://www.dreamviews.com/ website is massive source of info about lucid dreaming if you haven't come across it yet.Think I might have to try again soon. The thought of having sex with anyone I want in a dream is a strong motivation!

I've never really dedicated myself to lucid dreaming, but it is definitely appealing. I did start a dream journal awhile back, but I only lasted a week lol. I've had probably 10 or so lucid dreams before, some were better than others. I actually had a brief one last week. I was walking down a set of stairs that were unfamiliar to me and I was like holy shit I'm dreaming. Of course, right on que, 10 seconds later it was gone. The most frustrating thing is the short duration of them when I do have them.

I've prostate orgasmed in my sleep twice. Just sayin'

@orgasmo read about dream stabilisation - rubbing hands together, spinning around, and using your senses. I can't speak from experience but it's something you have to learn in order to lucid dream successfully and stay lucid.

You are very lucky and obviously a natural lucid dreamer so I would take advantage of it!

@smudgefish I've read about it some in the past and I distinctly remember 1 dream where I was able to spin around, and it seemed like it made it last a little bit longer, but it was still very short. I think this is something that you need to focus on to get better at it though. I need to get better at dream recognition. Most of my dreams have obvious ques that something is off, but I don't realize it most of the time until I wake up.

I don't know if I'm a natural lucid dreamer, because I haven't had one that has lasted. I do have very vivid and startling dreams sometimes though. Sometimes I wake up and I feel like a completely different person. Some dreams cause me to wake up feeling depressed, while others leave me feeling excited and on top of the world. Some dreams are just so out there that I don't even understand why I have them. I had one this week where I was getting hassled by some crooked cops which was new for me lol. That dream felt very long (at least an hour) and the detail was incredible, but I never realized it until I woke up. It should have been very obvious to me it was a dream. I was in a very familiar city, but the details and layout were a bit different.