Why bigger in the a.m.

I’ve always wondered about this. When I first get up (different than “getting it up) in the morning, both my cock and balls hang at 4.5” As soon as I piss, which is within 5 minutes, they’re back to the old 2.5” - these are bone pressed flaccid meaurements. Why is this?

Glenn

I have the same thing happen every morning. I think its pretty cool turning on the light in the bathroom and seeing a monster dick hanging down! I think there might be 3 answers to your question. First, you have several nocturnal erections throughout the night. When you wake up in the AM, its almost like you’ve just had sex and your dick is still pumped. Second, the heart pumps as much blood as possible to your limbs(legs and feet, arms and hands, dick)so the heart rate will slow down and allow you to sleep. This is also why your hands feels so swollen in the AM. Lastly, your stress level drops drastically when you fall asleep, so there is nothing to worry you or your dick during the night.

This is all based on the SWAG theory. Scientific Wild Ass Guess

SK1 you SWAG is not bad.

My theory is not far from that but my main point is that it has to do with circulation. When you are laying flat it is much easier for your heart to get blood to the different extremities. Try pumping before you go to bed and when you wake up you will still be huge like you just came out of the tube.

SWAG part 2. In your sleep, most muscle’s relax and repair and when your PC relaxes, it lets more blood in causing a semi erect/erect state. when you wake up…..It’s bad to normal as the PC muscle tense up again. I think I got that right…….lol…..Anyway, thats my story and I’m sticking to it!!!

Your dick shrinks down because you peed. Isn’t that an old locker room ploy? The guys shower and change and dress, then pee before leaving?

The way it works is this:

Sexual erections and nocturnal erections, same as morning wood, derive through different neural pathways. This has a lot to do with a very subtle interaction between sympathetic and para-sympathtic nervous systems. (We don’t have to go into that here.)

What you wake up to in the night or in the morning may be larger than what you can muster up for sex or PE while conscious. I’ve even measured in the night and they tend to be larger both in girth and length than I can make happen most the time when I’ve done a PE measurement to check stats.

To me this is always a trease, but an indicator that there’s more size potential there than I gave myself credit for.

I do like this theory.

My wife likes morning sex. Hmmmm…

For some reason I much prefer my day to end with sex, than begin with it. Makes me sleep much better. Although, I have had times when I had sex in the morning and my whole day was carefree. :)

Anyone know why flaccid length increased when you need to take a piss?

Mine is the total opposite, when I piss I have a great flacid hang. I know I have to piss when my flacid hang gets shorter.

later…

Avocet,

>This has a lot to do with a very subtle interaction between sympathetic and para-sympathtic nervous systems. (We don’t have to go into that here.) <

OK, well lets do it anyway. Which one is it that gives you the stronger erections, and what different ways are there of conciously controlling this?

Breathing exercises maybe?

SS4

OK. For the ever-curious SS4, here’s a quickie rundown of how it works.

The sympathetic and the para-sympathetic nervous systems are at conflict, at least when it comes to erections. Whereas the sympathetic nervous system - reacting to negative influences like cold, stress, anxiety, guilt, and a lot of other issues – tries constantly to prevent erections, the para-sympathetic system encourages them.

While we may not always like the result [new, delicious and hot girlfriend/boyfriend who makes us so nervous we can’t get a hard-on], there are probably some very sensible reasons why we evolved this way.

To make a broad generalization, it is the sympathetic nervous system that often keeps us safe from harm by our environment. And, without the sympathetic we’d be having a whole lot of inappropriate erections. Cave men, for example, could not go running around in search of food in the forest with an erection without damaging it on a tree limb or a rock. If you were giving a business presentation in front of a group of clients, you wouldn’t want your dick acting as the pointer for your PowerPoint demo. When you are “safe,” though, with a partner who makes you comfortable and turns you on, the para-sympathetic system overcomes the sympathetic and you get an erection – a “safe” one.

During REM sleep, however, the para-smypathetic system takes over. The sympathetic neurons in the locus coeruleus are turned off and erections are allowed to occur spontaneously, no interference at all from the sympathetic system and so a completely open and different route taken for the erections to occur.

Without the inhibitions of the sympathetic system operating, it makes sense that nocturnal erections, unhampered by it, could reach their full potential for size and be larger often than sexual ones we experience while we are conscious with both (conflicting) systems operating.

How you can control this during conscious hours should have a thread of its own.

Avocet,

>OK. For the ever-curious SS4, here’s a quickie rundown of how it works. <

Lucky i’m not a cat, eh?

lol I like your explanations. I remember talking about this a while ago, and using the example of army dudes hunting terrorists. So, in sympathetic mode, all the blood goes to your brain and muscles, to let you kick ass or whatever.

>During REM sleep, however, the para-smypathetic system takes over. The sympathetic neurons in the locus coeruleus are turned off and erections are allowed to occur spontaneously, no interference at all from the sympathetic system and so a completely open and different route taken for the erections to occur. <

You know Avocet, I woke up in the middle of the night once and decided to try the kegel orgasm thing, and I failed kinda (actually i’ll dig up that old thread, AGAIN), I did ejaculate but still kept my full erection. Does the para-sympathetic system work like viagra kinda, because the same thing happens using that?

>Without the inhibitions of the sympathetic system operating, it makes sense that nocturnal erections, unhampered by it, could reach their full potential for size and be larger often than sexual ones we experience while we are conscious with both (conflicting) systems operating. <

Right, i’m going to keep a ruler and a camera by my bed, and set my alarm for 3 AM.

>How you can control this during conscious hours should have a thread of its own.<

Then it shall be created. Something like this you mean:

The sympathetic and the para-sympathetic nervous systems

Good Luck
SS4

You guys need a hobby :-) ~

Glenn