A Urologist explains nocturnal emissions (aka wet dreams_ nightfall)(360P)

A Urologist explains nocturnal emissions.                                          By                               Kashif Mag

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00:00have you ever wondered about wet dreams who gets them why do they get them and what exactly does

00:04it mean well i'm dr reena malik urologist and pelvic surgeon and i'm here today to explain

00:09just that if you're new here i make content every week about urologic health bladder health sexual

00:14health and much much more so if you like what you see make sure you subscribe and share this

00:18channel with your friends so the scientific term for wet dreams are nocturnal penile emissions

00:31but people like to call them wet dreams or nightfall and essentially what it is is when you

00:36ejaculate in your sleep and wake up with a little bit of a mess in your sheets and in fact they can

00:41happen to both men and women but before we get into why these happen and what exactly that means let's

00:47talk a little bit about what happens when a person ejaculates usually with sexual stimuli or friction

00:54our body sends signals to our sympathetic nervous system and that's a nervous system that's

00:59stimulated when you have fight or flight reactions so your adrenaline is rushing and that's what causes

01:04the sympathetic nervous system to fire this sends signals to our spinal cord which then sends triggers

01:10to the bladder neck to close and that's so that when you ejaculate it doesn't go backwards into the

01:16bladder but forward out the urethra and then the fluid is then released into the urethra from the

01:23seminal vesicle through the ejaculatory duct which i've talked about many times before in a couple other

01:27videos so you can check those out and that fluid within the proximal part of the p-tube causes a

01:34reflex which also then sends a signal to another part of the spinal cord which then causes the pelvic

01:39muscles and the muscles around the urethra to contract and causes the emission or the fluid to

01:45go out the urethra so who gets wet dreams well according to some very small studies about 80 to

01:5290 percent of men experience at least one wet dream in their lifetime and about 30 to 40 percent of women

01:59however interestingly they haven't done a lot of studies on this but what they found is that up to 48

02:03percent of men who experience wet dreams as usually around puberty have no idea that it's coming have

02:09never talked to anyone about it all and you could imagine that it would be kind of a scary experience

02:14to go through as a young boy to wake up with this sticky mess in your bed and not know if you wet yourself

02:20or what exactly happened so most often people have these wet dreams during puberty and that's for a

02:26number of reasons but they can have them throughout their entire lives and it's based on a number of

02:30factors including age how frequently you have ejaculations and your hormone levels actually

02:37it's more likely that if you haven't had an ejaculation in a few weeks that you're more

02:42likely to have a nocturnal emission interestingly you may think that having wet dreams only happens

02:49in the setting of an erotic dream but actually that's not true when they studied this in small

02:54groups they found that up to 40 percent of men either were having a non-erotic dream like dreaming

02:59about something completely non-sexual or woke up and couldn't even remember the dream they were

03:04having when they had the emission so it does not have to necessarily mean that you were having some

03:09sort of erotic dream you could have been having some friction to the area if you were sleeping on

03:13your stomach or other things that could have caused the emission this is completely normal

03:17whether you've had one or not have one there is nothing wrong with you let me say it again having

03:23wet dreams or nightfall is not detrimental to you in any way it's not going to affect your overall

03:28health your sexual health your fertility or anything else in any way shape or form so i really made

03:34this video to reassure you all that nothing's wrong with you this is completely normal and nothing to

03:39be ashamed of so as always we're going to take care of yourself because you're worth it