8% Of Sweet Dreams Are Made Of These

Study Shows 8% of Men's and Women's Dreams Involve Sexual Content

(WebMD)  Sex dreams make up 8% of men's and women's dreams, a University of Montreal researcher announced today.

Antonio Zadra, Ph.D., asked 109 women and 64 men to keep a dream diary for two to four weeks. Participants were about 30 years old, on average.

In Zadra's study, participants jotted down every dream they had, whether it was sexual or not. Out of the 3,564 dreams recorded, 292 included sexual content.

"Sexual intercourse was the most common type of sexual content, followed by sexual propositions, kissing, and fantasies," Zadra writes.

For men and women alike, sexual dreams accounted for 8% of all reported
dreams. Zadra also notes that "masturbation accounted for approximately 6%
of both male and female sexual dreams and an orgasm was experienced in
approximately 4% of all sexual dreams."

However, there were some gender differences in sex dreams.

"Men's sexual dreams were more likely to take place in public or unknown
settings, to have the dreamer initiate sexual contact, and to involve unknown characters or multiple partners," Zadra writes. She notes that "gender differences in the content of everyday sexual dreams may reflect people's waking needs, experiences, attitudes, and concerns with respect to sexuality."

His findings were presented today in Minneapolis at Sleep 2007, a joint
venture of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research
Society.

According to Zadra, only two other studies have probed the frequency and content of sexual dreams, and both of those studies were done more than 40 years ago.

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[toolmangler-2009]

Se x, whats that?

[mitch0927]

Excellant analogy cneron, I fall in the catagory og typical men, I think and dream about s.e.x. oh I'd say about every fifteen seconds or so.

[josephezell-2009]

As far as it's effect on my marriage... Do you think I am going to tell my wife I slept with Tyra Banks last night? I think not!

[airmanc5]

Jesus no wonder CBS and the "perky" one are in last place and falling further.. This story was done on ABC and NBC 3 days ago. Get up with the times CBS

[glb1969]

I for one am quite glad that scientist are free to research whatever they desire, this research is just as important and valid as any other area.

I find myself highly skeptical of those who criticize or seek to restrict certain areas of inquiry. I even know one religously insane extremist who is claiming this research is immoral, against the principles of christianity, and makes all who participated sinners in her eyes. This just goes to show how we need enact a firewall to prevent religous tampering in science.

[drinuk]

Millions are dying from easily preventable disease, cancer and aids have become a rich sick Big Pharma industry and this Plonker is Researching "Wet" dreams, God Help Us!!!

[heresmy2cent]

This study would have been useful if it had found a way to increase the frequency of *** dreams.

If a way could ever be discovered to do that, e.g: development of a "*** dream pill," that discovery could make you one of the richest people on earth.