Sleep-based Sensuality - The Real Dangers of Sensual NREM Parasonmia

To most men, “sleep-based sensuality” (officially classified as “sensual NREM parasonmia”) is something that is treated as a joke. For example, many a man has described himself as being so “ready for action” that he could engage in intimate contact during his sleep. Yet for the men who actually do suffer from this disorder, it is a very real – and potentially dangerous – situation. While practicing proper male organ care is always a good idea, men with this condition require specialized sleep disorder treatments to address the problem.

What is sensual NREM parasonmia?

Doctors and researchers have long known that people frequently experience various forms of sensual activity during sleep periods. All men are familiar with wet dreams, or periods of sleep during which they release seed. Also called nocturnal emissions, wet dreams most often occur during early stages of puberty, but they can occur at any time in a man’s life. Often, wet dreams are relatively “spontaneous” – a man has a sensual dream, becomes hard and comes. Other times, the man while asleep may rub his male organ with his hand or thrust his male organ against his bedding, in essence getting off while asleep.

A man with sleep-based sensuality engages in such activity in a more marked way. He may more actively self-pleasure while remaining asleep; for example, some men may lower their pajamas or strip naked and self-pleasure. In some instances, a man may rise from his bed and stand or sit while self-pleasuring. He may even leave his room and wander to another location and self-pleasure – all while remaining asleep.

Sleep-based sensuality is not necessarily limited to manual stroking. Some men have been known to engage in intimate contact with a partner in their bed while never awakening; in some rare instances, men have been reported to engage in non-consensual contact with someone not his partner as a result of this condition. Needless to say, this can have serious consequences. Although this article focuses on men, sleep-based sensuality can occur in either gender.

Why does it happen?

Sleep-based sensuality is classified as a non-rapid-eye-movement (non-REM) parasomnia disorder. This is the same class of disorders which includes the much better known sleepwalking, talking in the sleep, teeth grinding and night terrors. This category also includes sleep eating, in which a person consumes food in his sleep, as well as the very dangerous driving while asleep. Most people with a sleep-based sensuality disorder also have one of these other parasomnias. As with other sleep disorders, people with sleep-based sensuality issues remain asleep while they are engaged in the activity and usually have no memory of it.

Several factors can bring about sensual NREM parasonmia. Alcohol can be a trigger, especially in people who already experience one of the other parasomnia disorders. Sleep deprivation, in which one is deprived of sleep for an extended period of time, is another factor. Probably the most common cause is sleep disruption, in which the sleep is interrupted. Interrupted does not necessarily mean that the person returns to a state of wakefulness; it can mean that a person is thrust out of deep sleep at inappropriate times but not into total wakefulness. Sleep apnea is probably the most familiar form of sleep disruption.

How is it treated?

A doctor doesn’t treat sleep-based sensuality issues themselves; he treats the thing that is causing it, such as sleep apnea. A continuous positive airway pressure machine is often used to help people with sleep apnea (and those with sleep-based sensuality problems). Anti-anxiety medications are often effective for many parasomnia disorders.

Sleep-based sensuality is fortunately a fairly rare disorder, however, this and any other unconscious sensual activity can sometimes result in a manhandled male organ. Any time rough handling leads to a sore male organ, the member can and should be treated with a quality male organ nutrient cream (health professionals recommend Man 1 Man Oil). Men with sore male organs should look for creams capable of both soothing (through the inclusion in the cream of a high end emollient such as Shea butter) and restoring male organ sensitivity that may have been damaged by rough treatment (via the use of a cream that includes acetyl L carnitine, which provides neuroprotective support).

Visit http://www.man1health.com for additional information on most common male organ health issues, tips on improving male organ sensitivity, and what to do to maintain a healthy male organ. John Dugan is a professional writer who specializes in men's health issues and is an ongoing contributing writer to numerous online web sites.