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Well, seven years ago this week, we launched this podcast 1400 episodes later. Here we are finally

addressing the topic of sexualized dreams. Yes, sexualized dreams. Easily one of the most

asked about topics in the inbox and certainly the most asked about topic we've brushed off to date.

No longer here's the email from an anonymous man. Hello, Pastor John. Thank you for this podcast.

I am 31 a believer married for 12 years to a wonderful Christian woman. I'm familiar with the

commands of God about sexual sin and its eternal dangers. I have for almost a year now successfully

battled sin with pornography thanks to prayer God's word help from my wife, my pastor, and an

outside organization that tracks internet activity for accountability purposes. I know and agree

that sex outside of marriage is sinful and wrong, even the desire itself is sinful as Jesus said.

My question though is as follows, why do I have lucid sexual dreams with people other than my wife,

even people I've never met before? These dreams bother me intensely even after I wake up because I

can't help but feel that I have sinned and even worse, I feel as if I had no control over it

as with most of my dreams. I have a pretty unhealthy sleep pattern partly because I would rather

not dream at all. I am quite troubled by it and any help would be appreciated. Pastor John,

what would you say to him? The first thing I would say is that I don't know why this is happening.

So I don't want to pose as having a psychological or a spiritual or a physical hormonal

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