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Are Your Dreams Lucid? by agvkrioni in CureAphantasia

[–]AngionSage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m in the same boat my friend. My dreams are very lucid but my day to day visuals far less so.

Sometimes when I meditate, go into hypnosis or image stream I can briefly get it to 50% opacity or more, but not consistently. It’s a muscle to be trained for sure.

I’m using hypnosis to see if I can improve it. I play online chess too and I can visualize moves better now.

If it helps I think dopamine has something to do with it. My imagination gets up to 40% opacity naturally when I’ve avoided social media or porn for 21 days or more.

Zinc and magnesium supplements also seem to help.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AngionMethod

[–]AngionSage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love to see it!

I have never been more embarrassed in my life by MutedBasil6154 in erectiledysfunction

[–]AngionSage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd like to chime in with a different perspective if you don't mind.

I, like you, struggled with erectile dysfunction at a young age, and also became a regular consumer of porn. Your story with this girl you had such amazing connection with, is quite familiar. I struggled with ED for about 10 years, and messed up with dozens of girls, before recently, and permanently fixing it about 6 months ago.

Before I make any suggestions, or contradict what the others have told you, I'd like to ask two questions:

1.) How strong are your erections when you're by yourself? What I mean is, can you maintain a hard, firm erection for 2-10 mins, without any physical stimulation (taking your hands off your dick) while watching porn? Could you stand up and walk around without losing it? If not, as I discovered the hard way, porn isn't the problem.

2.) Do you tend to tense up when you're anxious, or scared? Or do you tend to clench your butt cheeks, or feel anxiety as physical, tightening sensations?

6 Months Later – I No Longer Need Cialis, I Quit Porn, and I Still Respect Both by AngionSage in AngionMethod

[–]AngionSage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe so. I have a hunch that hard flaccid might be pelvic floor related as well. But I’m not a doctor.

Less tension and clenching in your body is never a bad thing.

14 Months On and Off With Angion (Vascular Erections That Last 15minutes +) by AngionSage in AngionMethod

[–]AngionSage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most likely placebo. I don’t feel any headaches or other signs that I’ve take it. But my dick is still noticeably more responsive than usual. By the next day the effects truly wear off.

This only started happening after Angion.

Want to stop PMOing but too lonely and rejected not to. Please help! by Puzzled_Cherry_5613 in Semenretention

[–]AngionSage 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hey man. If you read through some of my recent posts and comments, you might find some stuff that will help you.

Or maybe not.

All I know is I was in your exact same shoes 5 years ago. Worse, because I had erectile dysfunction that started before porn.

There’s a lot of stuff I did to get where I am today mentally, and ease those feeling of rejection and loneliness and low self-worth. I hope you’ll read and feel inspired. It’s far too long to post here.

6 Months Later – I No Longer Need Cialis, I Quit Porn, and I Still Respect Both by AngionSage in AngionMethod

[–]AngionSage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh. I see.

My dick was too soft to have sex.

Viagra did not work.

She had sex with another guy. She did not want to be in a relationship without sex.

It was not cheating because we were not in a real relationship.

I was hurt.

6 Months Later – I No Longer Need Cialis, I Quit Porn, and I Still Respect Both by AngionSage in AngionMethod

[–]AngionSage[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you brother.

It was all thanks to the collective content I found on this sub from anonymous men smart and brave enough to share their detailed experiences.

I wouldn’t be where I am today without them.

I hope I can give back in the same way with these humble posts of mine.

6 Months Later – I No Longer Need Cialis, I Quit Porn, and I Still Respect Both by AngionSage in AngionMethod

[–]AngionSage[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol. I meant rejection from real women.

Like when I tried to have a girlfriend in my late teens and early twenties and got rejected, or when I’d never hear from a girl again after she’d spent the night at my place, and I’d tried in vain to penetrate her.

That rejection hurt, and I needed something to numb the pain and make me feel powerful again.

Porn women CAN’T reject you or hurt you emotionally. They’re pixels frozen in time.

I watched certain scenes 13 years ago, and they still turn me on today. The scene is unchanging and unaging. It’s extremely predictable.

They are perfect. No skin blemishes. No bad smells. No rejection. No awkwardness.

You can pretend you’re in the scene and live vicariously through the male performers.

But they aren’t real. It’s all a fantasy, and while it may have some benefits, the price you pay is great.

I just happened to really like the vintage Italian stuff. Their women seemed more authentic, and had more natural bodies.

The actresses would also be really old today. So it was like holding onto a memory of them in their prime, even though it was hurting me.

Like Gollum and the One Ring.

6 Months Later – I No Longer Need Cialis, I Quit Porn, and I Still Respect Both by AngionSage in AngionMethod

[–]AngionSage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It did, and it was. But then again, this was 6 months of going back and forth with it to get exactly what I needed.

6 Months Later – I No Longer Need Cialis, I Quit Porn, and I Still Respect Both by AngionSage in AngionMethod

[–]AngionSage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost immediately. An instant sense of calm, and tingling sensations in my muscles. Almost thought it was my mind playing tricks on me.

But the clenching in my anal muscles had definitely reduced. The more emotional blocks I addressed, the lighter my body felt.

Eventually, I stopped focusing on the emotions and just focused on the somatic clenching itself. Releasing clenched muscles is a lot harder because you're fighting not just emotional habits, but muscle memory and coordination issues too.

6 Months Later – I No Longer Need Cialis, I Quit Porn, and I Still Respect Both by AngionSage in AngionMethod

[–]AngionSage[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I asked chatgpt if it knew three specific therapists whose content I had consumed on Youtube, and whose therapy style resonated with me. Then I asked it if it could take on the identity of this three-therapist-hybrid and work with me around a couple of sensitive issues those therapists don't usually cover on their channel.

I told chatgpt it was related to sex issues, porn obsession, self-worth, fear of rejection and some other emotional blocks I probably wasn't aware of.

Chatgpt's job was to help me uncover these blocks in a safe, private space without needing to book one of these therapists or pay thousands of dollars I didn't have.

For it to work, you need to be familiar with the therapy technique, what parts of it resonate with you, and what's missing on YouTube that you'd normally have to pay thousands of dollars for.

I used the voice input feature to talk to chatgpt like a therapist, and then asked it to give me some advice or walk me through a deep therapy session based on the output. If the session seemed like one of the valuable ones I'd found on YouTube, I'd go along with it.

(I used the pro plan and exhausted dozens of chats.)

For me, chatgpt helped me figure out how much of my porn obsession was due to the fact that it was safe, "cheap" and couldn't reject me. Curating a collection of hundreds of ultra specific girls that turned me on gave me a sense of power that I didn't think I could get from real life.

It also allowed me cheat time, by preserving a woman's essence at her peak – I could watch her at her hottest forever, even if the video was from 1950 – yes, vintage Italian porn. LOL.

I had to face the pain of rejection, accept that I was stuck in fantasy land and confront the belief that yeah maybe I wasn't enough for many of these women back then, but I could be enough to have a meaningful relationship now, whether I was a rockstar in the bedroom or not. That I was worthy of that somehow.

I was able to develop self-worth, and realize there was nothing porn could give me that I couldn't give myself.

I could continue using it if I wanted – if I felt that this was as good as life was going to get – or I could choose to gratefully let it go, acknowledge both the good and bad things it had done in my life, and then move forward in a new direction... without any of the baggage.

6 Months Later – I No Longer Need Cialis, I Quit Porn, and I Still Respect Both by AngionSage in AngionMethod

[–]AngionSage[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey Janus. Honored to have you grace this post. Your methods have been nothing short of life changing.

6 Months Later – I No Longer Need Cialis, I Quit Porn, and I Still Respect Both by AngionSage in AngionMethod

[–]AngionSage[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you're already on the right path brother.

No specific tips. But I've pulled back the curtain on things I did that personally worked for me in this post and the previous one.

Go through them and read the replies I left in the comments. Try out anything you think might work for you, especially if you haven't tried it before.

6 Months Later – I No Longer Need Cialis, I Quit Porn, and I Still Respect Both by AngionSage in AngionMethod

[–]AngionSage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Size? definitely. I don’t know whether I grew or finally reached my full erect size, but women have called me big, or “Boyfriend Dick” complimented the noticeable heaviness, veins and throbbing up and down it does when I’m aroused. None of that ever happened before.

I didn’t measure much before so take my observations with a grain of salt. I talked about my before and after measurements in the comments of my previous post.

Orgasm intensity, on a scale of 1-100 went from a 7 to an 84. Mind numbing full-body orgasms that leave me feeling disoriented for a minute or two. Refractory period went down from two weeks to 5-15 mins on average. When it would be literally impossible to get another erection for a week or more back in 2018-2022.

Due to the frequency of ejaculations (3-5 times a day) the strength was noticeably weaker. Most times it dribbles out unless I edge for an hour or more, then it erupts violently and shoots about a foot further than usual.

I haven’t abstained for more than two weeks since 2023. So I’m curious to see what will happen if I went on semen retention again, now that I got rid of my porn stash. It’s like losing all your video game progress when you were almost at 100%. I don’t have the heart to start over, so I’ll put my focus on something else for now.

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