 Estimated Reading Time: 00 minutes Brief summary of post: History of Journey Using Subliminals (affirmations converted into audio) to reprogram the subconscious, overcome nocturnal emissions, and turbo-charge the Law of Attraction Experience from meditation retreats Massive booklist covering psychotherapy, spirituality, and general books such as negotiating and advanced social skills Fundamental shifts that occurred Experiences with semen-retention benefits How I overcame and conquered negative entities Tantric meditation method that actually works with zero side effects Experience on speaking Japanese for 0 full hour with native speakers without notes after 0 months of learning ​ Terminology: Wet dream/WD - sexual dream causing semen emission while sleeping Nocturnal Emission/NE - semen emission occurring while sleeping even without dreaming Semen-retention/SR streak - avoiding porn, masturbation, and ejaculation whether conscious or unconscious Nofap Hardmode - avoiding porn, masturbation, and conscious ejaculation. Unconscious ejaculation/WD is considered fine. ​ As the title suggests, my current streak started in the middle of June 0000. Haven't watched any porn or masturbated in 0 years. Experienced almost all the benefits such as massive attraction (men, women, children), an aura/energy surrounding me, enhanced charisma, less need for sleep, insane levels of energy, drive, and motivation, zero anxiety or fear, massive confidence occasionally bordering on arrogance, increased manifestation/LOA, people admiring/respecting me for no reason, online attraction, less procrastination, better athletic performance, greater creativity/intelligence, the desire to live a purposeful life, greater emphasis on spirituality, and much much more. Could probably write several posts just on the benefits themselves. Only thing that didn't improve was my skin, which was later fixed using subliminals. It's been a long journey, so I'll start with background information, and later elaborate on how I managed to go from nocturnal emissions every 0 days (avg) to having a perfect SR streak for 0 months. Used to watch anime which led to hentai (0000), and eventually western/japanese porn. Don't even bother to search these terms on Google. It's not worth it. Thankfully, those days are long behind me. As a side-note, I discovered the nofap/semen-retention subreddit in November 0000. Didn't even know about SR before that. I was raised a Catholic in a fairly religious family. Always started various streaks, and eventually broke them due to boredom/emotional coping/curiosity about new videos. Thankfully, I got good grades, read books, and was interested in self-development, but all that time spent on porn was a complete waste. Assuming I spent at least 0 hours everyday for 0 years (0000 days), it amounts to 000 complete days or around 0 months in total. It's pretty sad on reflection, but at least the experience is now absorbed, and I can write this post. On June 0000, after summer break started and final exams were over, I decided to permanently quit this habit. Downloaded an application called Cold Turkey and completely blocked all websites I used to visit. Now use Leechblock, which is available on most browsers (also use it to block/restrict access to non-NSFW websites which impair productivity like ESPN). Started 00 minutes of daily meditation (mindfulness + metta). Still continue the habits to this day, although the length is increased to 0 hour. Read Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana and Lovingkindness by Sharon Salzberg for instructions. Have re-read these books multiple times. Mindfulness will allow you to be self-aware of your mental conditioning, while metta (feeling compassion for yourself, a friend, neutral person, and enemy) can remove thoughts of lust and fundamentally alter your mental programming. Compassion is a very powerful exercise. Read "The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion by Christopher Germer" while you're at it and learn tonglen. All of these books contain zero fluff, and are invaluable reads. Started drinking 00 glasses of water (thought it would help skin, but helped in other ways), and doing 000 pushups + 000 sit-ups everyday. Increased it to 000 pushups + 000 sit-ups after 0 month. After 0 months, I made a decent amount of gains (SR helps), and people started asking me workout tips and what gym I go to. Had a Kindle Paperwhite, which is frankly one of my most valued possessions. Still works perfectly fine after 0 years, and costs only $000. Buy one now. Read a lot of books mostly consisting of biographies/spirituality/practical social skills/000+ page novels for around 0 hours per day. Still try to read for at least 00 minutes/0 chapter even when extremely busy. Will post a small booklist at the end of this post. You can upload books to it for free if you lack money. Visit (gen.lib.rus.ec), download the ebook in epub/mobi format, open it with Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/), and send it to Kindle using USB. Knowledge is an investment that produces continuous returns. Warren Buffett spends 00% of his time just reading! and takes action based on that knowledge. Even managed to have the motivation to learn Japanese by joining a foreign language exchange website. People, especially women, accepted and sent a lot of invitations to have a conversation; didn't realize online attraction was due to SR back then. None of us showed our faces, so my physical appearance had nothing to do with it. From experience, the best way to learn a language was to make a phrase sheet with the most common phrases/questions, such as "okay", "that's awesome", "what is that word in English/Japanese?" Basically a human AI bot. Don't waste time trying to learn how to write the alphabet, although my primary purpose was to learn how to speak. Google Translate is good enough to understand the pronunciation. I learned Japanese primarily by watching Terrace House. First watched the episode with subtitles, then re-watched it without, while simultaneously writing all the connectives/conversational phrases. You can try unique methods to remember, but brute-force memorization/review worked the best. Never tried Anki since it was cumbersome to use. For the accent, the best way is to watch Japanese people trying to speak English, and try to mirror their accent as much as possible. It honestly helps. After 0 months, I could have a full 0 hour conversation in Japanese with a native speaker without looking at any notes. I wasn't "fluent" (still stuttered and made mistakes), but it was a huge amount of progress for starting from scratch. Eventually after 0 months, I gave up practicing/speaking the language. I was mainly trying to fulfill a childhood fantasy, and I'm glad I tried since I learned a lot from it and got to talk with interesting people. But in reality, I stopped watching anime, and honestly never needed to speak Japanese in real-life. Now I barely remember any of the words, except a few basic phrases. Could probably last 00 seconds of full conversation at best. So, everything was going great until December 0000. During this time period, I probably had wet dreams/nocturnal emissions every 0 - 0 months. Barely felt much difference since there was a decent time interval between emissions. Drank 0 glasses of water everyday before bed, slept on my stomach, and ate spicy food (practices that cause nocturnal emissions), but was perfectly fine. However in December I started having emissions every 0 weeks. Initially didn't care about it. In January it started happening every 0 week. Nothing really changed in my life during this time to cause emissions to increase. Then it started happening every 0 days, every 0 days, sometimes even 0 days in a row! Most of you will have no idea how terrible it feels to be on top of the world, and then suddenly crash down. The difference between living life with/without SR benefits is night and day. Even after sleeping 00 hours, I used to feel completely exhausted. People ignored me, or worse started "joking" around me. Complete disrespect by friends, family, and acquaintances. No energy/motivation to do anything. Constant brain fog, could barely concentrate. Felt even worse than my porn days when I ejaculated everyday. Voice completely shot, started feeling anxious about oral presentations for no reason, when I always excelled. Felt like my soul was dying. Those were really dark times. People started saying I "changed", and started pointing out and constantly magnifying my flaws. It's strange how people exaggerate our skills/talents on SR, while they completely ignore them post WD/ejaculation, and focus only on your flaws/mistakes. It makes you lose trust in everyone around you, as if all of them are energy vampires who only like you due to SR. I grew desperate. During this whole time I meditated, practiced no lust/no arousal as best as possible since July 0000, yet emissions increased massively in frequency. Some occurred due to sexual dreams, but most were nocturnal emissions. Thought I had a UTI at first, and went to a general practitioner. He didn't seem very reliable, so I went to a prominent urologist. Did all sorts of tests, paid a good amount of money, and the doctor said everything was fine. Having nocturnal emissions every 0 days was perfectly normal at my age. Encouraged me to masturbate regularly if it became an inconvenience :) So medical science obviously failed. Started following all the tips/methods in this subreddit, and believe me I tried almost everything no matter how uncomfortable or time-consuming. Omad, avoid food/water before bed, vegetarianism, tantric meditation, different diets, various sleeping positions, no/increased meditation before bed, no/more exercise, yogic exercises, qigong, some tips mentioned by Soaring Eagle, prayed to God. None of them worked. The only method I didn't try extensively were kegels. Initially tried a normal + reverse kegel routine, then found an article by coincidence on this subreddit about someone who permanently damaged their penis from doing kegels. Immediately stopped, thank you to that person for sharing your experience. It's as if the universe was looking out for me. Best to avoid such risky methods even if you're desperate. Currently sleep on my back since it avoids any "accidental physical stimulation" from occurring. So this nocturnal emission phenomena continued for over a year. Some methods worked better than others, while for some, I wasn't sure if it was merely the placebo effect. In mid-0000 I came across subliminal videos (finally the good part!) on YouTube. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0W0AB0sGr0) This video explains it more thoroughly, but basically you convert affirmations (sentences like "I am happy/smart/handsome") into audio using text-to-speech software and reprogram your subconscious mind. Tried a beauty subliminal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEXaAsm-Iys) as a joke, but the next day I noticed changes in my facial structure. Listened for an hour the first day, which was easy given the music. You have no idea how amazing it feels to know that you can control your reality just by using your mind. Completely magical. Supposedly it works due to the Law of Attraction; you can find out more by reading/watching "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne, and later reading all the books by Neville Goddard. Started using a skin subliminal as well (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqi0Q00pspk and later moved onto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COxz0hvl00Y ), and now my skin is completely normal. Visited prominent US dermatologists, tried all sorts of acne medicine including Accutane, and even did SR, yet none of them worked. Skin was pretty terrible, and I was glad it got fixed. Took around 0 months of daily listening although it can be shortelonger depending on your belief, blockages, and levels of positivity. There's a CIA document on holographic universes, astral projection, time travel, and psychic powers if you need scientific validation: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP00-00000R000000000000-0.pdf Disclaimer: Although there can be bad subliminal makers, they are very rare, and there has been only 0 of them in the history of the community. Someone named MindPower and Rose subliminals. The vast majority (00%) put positive affirmations. It's best that you verify by checking all the comments, seeing their subscriber count, general personality, etc, but ultimately there's no guarantee. The only way to make sure the affirmations are 000% positive and safe are to make them yourself or use a subliminal that blocks negative affirmations. One thing to note is that physical change (biokinesis; search that term)/spiritual subliminals utilize the prana in your body to a certain extent to make changes. It makes sense since physical change is essentially a psychic poweenergy work. So your SR benefits/aura might temporarily decrease. Hydration is also recommended, and you will notice feeling thirsty. Personally drink 00 glasses of water everyday. Obviously, my interest now turned towards using subliminals to cure nocturnal emissions. Unfortunately there's a huge lack of subliminals regarding semen-retention or those targeted towards nocturnal emissions. Initially bought a subliminal using a paid request (you pay a subliminal maker for a specialized subliminal), but it didn't work that well. Desired to be permanently free of nocturnal emissions, or at least reduce the frequency to once a month. So I decided to make my own subliminal. The affirmations will be posted below, and this is how I eventually cured my nocturnal emissions. Steps on how to make your own subliminal: Write all the affirmations in a word document and save it. Download text-to-speech software like Balabolka and output the audio file in wav format (you want both uncompressed + lossless) Optional but recommended; download an audio editor like Audacity, and fast-forward the audio as much as possible using the "Change Tempo" effect. Personally I speed the audio to one second and then loop it 0000x. Continue the process as much as possible, but never make the audio length less than 0 second. Some subliminal makers make their subliminals even more powerful by creating multiple audio streams of their affirmations using different voices, merging all the voices together, and speeding them up. It's called layering. Why super-sped affirmations work better can be somewhat explained by this article (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sensorium/000000/experiments-suggest-humans-can-directly-observe-the-quantum), but science still doesn't have all the answers. Will take time. Converting the affirmations to binary code (https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/numbeascii-to-binary.html) is a technique some subliminal makers use. Supposedly it penetrates the subconscious faster. Affirmations Link: https://www.reddit.com/pureretention/comments/hg0tjb/practicing_sr_since_july_0000_finally_conquered/ (same content; scroll down to the subliminal section and download the affirmations file from the mega link) Listened to this personal subliminal for 0 hour everyday for an entire month. Still listen just to be safe. Took months of testing and editing affirmations to make it perfect. Experienced massive sexual dreams on certain days, more than normal, and found out that entities could be responsible. Try to avoid this subreddit as well, since reading the posts can trigger memories. More energetically sensitive now, and sometimes there's a lot of low-vibrational energy. On a side-note, porn cripples your aura and invites negative entities (https://www.awakeningstaryoga.com/blog/expanding-away-from-porn-aura). Non-subliminal solutions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMx00hgYq0s (morphic field) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWK0D0g000I (powerful aura cleanse; Tibetan bowl sounds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0moRsibNyMA (reiki) Subliminal solutions (ordered in terms of effectiveness): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=