Nocturnal emissions/Wet dreams

[Nunya]

For a good source to look at pertaining to nocturnal emissions with respects to sin and permissibility of receiving communion - according to St. Thomas Aquinas, when he wrote the summa and as per the translation done of the summa here.

This is an online version of an english translation of the Summa Theologica. See Part/Section III , Question 80, Point 7.

Below should be a direct link to the page I am referring to, and you just need to go to Point 7 -** “Whether nocturnal pollution prevents man from receiving this sacrament?”** — Then scroll down to the where you actually see the question heading dealing with this topic, the heading reads “Whether the seminal loss that occurs during sleep hinders anyone from receiving this sacrament?”. There you can read about what St. Thomas says in reference to Nocturnal emission in the Summa.

sacred-texts.com/chr/aquinas/summa/sum532.htm

 

[RHannosh619]

Hi everyone, I’m not trying to ressurrect a dead thread, but I need an answer!!

Okay so, I just want to know if it’s wrong to stop yourself before having a wet dream?

I know it sound weird, but last night I was about to have one, but before any ejaculation I was able to wake up and stop myself, this has happened before, I just want to know if there is any health issues with doing that?

 

[j35u5fr34k]

If someone is desiring that they have a nocturnal emission it could be considered a mortal sin. We can learn to control our dreams and if someone is seeking this sort of thing out it could be a mortal sin. Remember the three conditions for mortal sin: full knowledge, full consent, and grave matter. All three could be met here if someone desired to have a nocturnal emission.

Someone might argue that because the nocturnal emissions happen in a dream that there is not full consent of the will but if someone wishes that this happens before they fall asleep and then has good control of their dreams they could easily consent to this

With that being said, it is difficult to say whether or not that could be considered FULL consent but evaluate what is happening to you and if this sort of situation is true and you are seeking out a nocturnal emission then you need to take control of that.

Another reader had a good point, if you are dwelling on lustful thoughts in your life you are probably setting yourself up for nocturnal emissions.

If you are not seeking this out and it happens in sleep then it is in no way a mortal sin. Now that doesn’t mean that if you can stop yourself you don’t have to. You should try but if you cannot I would just confess it the next time you can as it is probably not a mortal sin because the arousal happened and you had no or very little chance to stop it.

If there are mitigating circumstances in almost any type of sin that could be considered mortal then it is probably not mortal provided you are evaluating the sin with a properly informed conscience.

 

[j35u5fr34k]

If any non-sexually active men experience discomfort from this, then I suspect that this lessens the culpability of masturbation if that is used as a means of alleviating the discomfort.

Ummmm, WRONG. There is no necessity to masturbate. People need to be careful what they post here as you could be leading people down the wrong road and therefore YOU will be culpable for their sin.

 

[phoenixrrt62]

Do nocturnal emissions/wet dreams cause us to fall into mortal sin?

Ah, geeze. I’d say NO…that’s just something a male’s body is going to DO, like arousal in the AM when you wake…it just is…is all.

I really, really wonder. WHY do you all torture yourselves so over everything and worry about if it’s sinful? If you know in your heart if it’s right, if you wouldn’t be ashamed to tell your mother/father/guardian about it, then I’d venture to say it’s OK? Right?
Am I missing something here?*** I want to CRY when I see all the posts about all the supposed “sins”***. I would think your God would want you to enjoy life and not worry over every little thing, yeah?

 

[RHannosh619]

Yeah, we do enjoy life while perfecting our will with that of God’s. We will also hopefully enjoy our after life with God for all of eternity.

I’d rather enjoy a life"time" of forever than enjoy this next 80 years

 

[phoenixrrt62]

Yeah, we do enjoy life while perfecting our will with that of God’s. We will also hopefully enjoy our after life with God for all of eternity.

I’d rather enjoy a life"time" of forever than enjoy this next 80 years

Well, ok, that’s cool…but I have to wonder…all the supposed sins, sounds like some people torture themselves wondering all the time if they are doing anything wrong. I can’t imagine your God would want you to live your lives like that…I know I wouldn’t want my son to worry constantly about everything being a sin

 

[Just_One_Touch]

Is this immoral:
You have a sexual dream, but you wake up before you have an emission. You then go back to sleep dreaming about the same thing to bring about that nocturnal emission.

 

[shaky]

Is this immoral:
You have a sexual dream, but you wake up before you have an emission. You then go back to sleep dreaming about the same thing to bring about that nocturnal emission.

Are you now unclean because of the nocturnal emission.

Old testament you needed 2 doves for sacrafice and do other things to get clean.

I heard one Orthodox christian say you can not have encrust if it was the night before.