wet dream

Nocturnal erotic vision

A wet dream is an erotic dream that causes orgasm during sleep, typically accompanied by ejaculation in males.

The term applies to involuntary nocturnal orgasms regardless of whether the dream is remembered.

Figuratively, wet dream describes something that would fulfill someone's fantasies: A tax-free inheritance is every accountant's wet dream.

physiology

nocturnal emission

Ejaculation while asleep

REM sleep · puberty · testosterone · arousal · erection · sleep cycle · involuntary · reproductive · hormonal · adolescence

idiom

fantasy

Imaginative mental wandering

longing · desire · utopia · unrealistic · best-case · impossible dream · yearning · hope

taboo

embarrassment

Self-conscious unease

humiliation · blush · mortification · discomfort · secrecy · unmentionable · guilt · self-consciousness · laundry · hidden

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Opposites
sleep state

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Conscious fantasy while awake

sexual fantasy

emotional valence of dream content

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Frightening dream causing wakefulness

night terror · bad dream · anxiety dream · fever dream

figurative usage - desirability

wet dreamnightmare scenario

Most feared potential outcome

worst nightmare · nightmare · worst-case scenario · horror show · doomsday scenario

Family

wet, water, dreamy, dreaming, moisture, dreamer, daydream, dreams, dampen

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