Sexual Dreams

Journal Entry, Age 32
I dreamt about my ex last night. Woke up thinking that it was real. I give it to You, God. Again I trust You for Your timing. Help me in my longings of what could have been. And that feeling of being loved... be my source for that need today and tomorrow.

What do you do if you’ve had an unwanted dream that seemed real and left you with lingering feelings or reawakened physical and emotional longings?

From my experience, I’d say there are two types of sexual dreams:

1. Sex dreams from the enemy (spiritual)

Journal Entry, Age 25
Sexual dreams from the devil make me righteously angry! I am PURE! My past was washed white as snow at the cross. Dreams like I had last night (where I wake up feeling as if I sinned, with new, fresh mental images to go along with it) are frankly illegal in the spiritual sense! Jesus, wash over my mind and over my sleeping mind. Protect my mind as I sleep. Waking up feeling condemned is NOT from God.

After praying with a friend after a particularly disturbing sexual dream, she saw a picture of the dream scene being covered entirely with the blood of Jesus, painted red, and then becoming white. Thank You Lord for the power in Your blood to make everything white as snow!

2. Sex dreams as a biological release for my sex drive (natural)

If I haven’t recently seen sexual imagery, I know that the dreams did not come from anything I willingly let in. Sometimes these dreams can occur without any apparent reason.

Is the timing related to my cycle? For women, sometimes they may experience heightened feelings especially during certain times in the month. This is all part of our biology.

If I recently fed my sex drive and I know that those dreams were likely triggered by that, I repent and ask for God’s cleansing to wash over me and quiet stuff down again.

Each time, I pray for contentment (in the physical and emotional areas) to wash over me once again.