Unintentional Ejaculation

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I will try go keep the this as PG, and normal as possible. This morning as I Was waking up I noticed that I was aroused. When I was laying on my stomach I noticed I felt some sort of weird like maybe some kind of pleasure down there but I did not move because I was just trying to fall back to sleep, and unfortunately possibly liked it a bit. Despite this I ejaculated. Did I commit a mortal sin? I guess I could have flipped over to try and stop it, but I truly and honestly believed that despite some little form of pleasure I was just tired and trying to fall back to sleep.
 
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You answered your own question with the title of this thread - it was unintentional, so not your fault and definately not a mortal sin. Please discuss with a priest or therapist if you have this fears as often as it may harm you.
 
I moved your thread to the Family Life forum where it’s more appropriate.
 
Thank you for the response. The thing that worries and scares me though is that I did not really try to stop it, I just layed there, and sort of let it happen while I was just trying to relax and try to go to sleep. When I did ejaculate I just stopped trying to fall back asleep, examined my conscience, leaned towards guilt and knew it was probably at least a venial sin, if not mortal because if I did not try to completely prevent the ejaculation from happening. I feel like that means I took somewhat pleasure in it, and came on CAF to see what others thought. Once again I did not want to or intend to ejaculate because I hate it, know it is bad, and only for marriage but it kind of just happened. I woke up aroused, sort of felt that it was happening, I guess I did not try to stop it except for trying to fall relax and fall asleep, and then ejaculated. I mean I don’t think I would call it masturbation because I did not touch myself, nor did intend to do anything of that nature, but I don’t think I did enough to try and stop it from happening. Maybe scrupulous is influencing me a bit here I do not know. What do you think?
 
Keep in mind - God is not a legalistic cruel being only waiting for you to tie a knot around your neck like a hostile lawyer. Your intention was not to masturbate, and “do not fear” is maybe the better fitting way to go for you to grow spiritually. I wouldn´t easily tell this any person as many take this as an excuse to continue sinning, but for a person who is fearful and tries to live a holy life, it´s important to remember.
The phase between wake and sleep is not one of the most reasonable in a person´s mind. If it happens again, speak a short prayer, maybe the our father and a hail mary, and sleep in trust of god´s grace.
 
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This is a perfectly natural thing that happens to all men. It is called a nocturnal emission. Nothing sinful about it.
 
I apologize, I was just trying to describe the situation to the best way so it could be clear and people would understand, I will dial it back. Once again, I apologize.
 
I still feel guilty though. Looking at it right now, I feel like I could have done something instead of laying there trying to fall asleep, and allow those feelings of pleasure come to me. As stated above I did not want it to happen, but it happened and I feel like in some cases I let it happen. I know scruples affects my conscience, which it could be in this case, but it has been hard overcoming these feelings of guilt because for some reason my conscience feels the guilt of a mortal sin, even if it was not. I think I am trying to relax and not torture myself as my priest says I should, but it is hard when just fighting impurity, and every little glance, and every little thought, etc. happening.
 
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