nocturnal emission

English

Noun

nocturnal emission (plural nocturnal emissions)

1. An ejaculation or orgasm while asleep, often accompanied by an erotic dream.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19:

     In other stories of the midrashim, Adam, in penance for his fall, abstains from sexuality for 130 years, but he is not able to control his nocturnal emissions; in his dream state female spirits, the succubae, come and have intercourse with him, and with Adam's seed they give birth to demons.

Synonyms

• night emission
• nocturnal pollution
• (slang) wet dream

Translations

ejaculation or orgasm while asleep

• Arabic: اِحْتِلَام m (iḥtilām)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夢遺／梦遗 (zh) (mèngyí), 遺精／遗精 (zh) (yíjīng)

• Czech: poluce f
• Finnish: yöllinen siemensyöksy
• German: Pollution f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὀνειρωγμός m (oneirōgmós)

• Hebrew: קרי לילה (he)
• Hungarian: pollúció, éjszakai/spontán magömlés
• Japanese: 夢精 (ja) (むせい, musei), 遺精 (ja) (いせい, isei)
• Lithuanian: poliucija f
• Maori: moetoa
• Portuguese: polução noturna f
• Serbo-Croatian: polucija (sh) f, mokri san (slang)
• Slovak: mokrý sen (slang), polúcia f
• Slovene: mokre sanje (slang)
• Spanish: polución nocturna f, emisión nocturna
• Thai: ฝันเปียก (th) (fǎn-bpìiak)
• Turkish: ihtilam (tr), gece boşalması, ıslak rüya (tr) (slang)