History Main / NocturnalEmission

* In an episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' involving the murder of a step-father, they find his teenaged step-son's DNA on his step-daughter's clothing and begin to ask him about it. Some gentle questioning by a sympathetic and understanding Nick reveals that he's just had one of these (possibly combined with ADateWithRosiePalms) and just grabbed something to clean his hand off.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': In Season Two, Angel starts having 'dreams' about his maker. It turns out that Darla is dosing him with magic to drive him nuts.

* On ''{{WesternAnimation/Daria}}'' the eponymous character meets her friend Jane in self-esteem class. Jane has done the course six times already ('I like having low self-esteem; it makes me feel special') and mentions that the boys and the girls will be split in the next class. When wondering what a class of all-male teens and a male teacher will be discussing they conclude it's this trope.

* Butters had one in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Sarcastaball". Note that Butters is a ten years old.

* Happens to Orel Puppington on ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' after having dreams where God praises him. Because he loves Christianity, he starts to physically harm himself whenever he feels "blessed" to counter this.

* Happens to Jack in the "Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk" segment of ''OnceUponAGirl''.

-->---''Music/{{Koit}}'', "Wet Dream"

[[DoubleStandard Men]] [[ImAManICantHelpIt are]] [[TheUnfairSex such]] [[AllMenArePerverts perverts]] that they even ejaculate in their sleep. There is a perfectly normal (i.e. non-perverted) biological explanation for this, but Fiction Land likes to pretend that it's always a result of an EroticDream and/or ADateWithRosiePalms. Also, in Fiction Land, women never do this. (In real life, they do, but barring female ejaculation it's a lot harder for women to tell in the morning.) TruthInTelevision for both sexes, though this phenomenon is more the exception than the rule.

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* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' Jerin washes the blankets "soiled by dreams" of a woman. It's a good thing for him he does the whole laundry, so there's no embarassment.

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* Butters had one in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Sarcastaball". Note that Butters is a ten years old.

* Serves as the basis for one of Creator/BillCosby's stand-up routines.

* Non-sexual versions frequently happen in ''Manga/WanderingSon''. The protagonist often has these, even when his dreams are not sexual. Yuki's first flashback notes [[{{Transsexual}} her]] having one of these, going to the bathroom, and her crush (now boyfriend) walks in at a school field trip when they were children.

* In ''Literature/BrokebackMountain'', Ennis sometimes have Jack in his dream after Jack's death, either leaving him with grief or an "old sense of joy and release." It's implied that the trope is in effect when he feels the latter because sometimes he finds his sheets to be wet.

* In ''Series/TheSarahSilvermanProgram'', Jay was in bed with Laura when she discovered he'd had a nocturnal emission. She found it so romantic because she thought this was because he'd dreamed of her, when it was in fact over the local [[HotScoop news reporter.]] Then he went to work and took his anxieties out on said news reporter but then decided to explain to her about the nocturnal emission. On live TV. His girlfriend sees this and gets mad and he tries to get the news people to let him apologize. On Live TV. Then his girlfriend forgives him and when the news people actually let him apologize, she burst in, onto live TV, and delivers (in a manner not unlike a PSA) a small speech about how nocturnal emissions are involuntary and they and the dreams are not under the control of the person who has them and shouldn't be held against them.

* In ''TheSarahSilvermanProgram'', Jay was in bed with Laura when she discovered he'd had a nocturnal emission. She found it so romantic because she thought this was because he'd dreamed of her, when it was in fact over the local [[HotScoop news reporter.]] Then he went to work and took his anxieties out on said news reporter but then decided to explain to her about the nocturnal emission. On live TV. His girlfriend sees this and gets mad and he tries to get the news people to let him apologize. On Live TV. Then his girlfriend forgives him and when the news people actually let him apologize, she burst in, onto live TV, and delivers (in a manner not unlike a PSA) a small speech about how nocturnal emissions are involuntary and they and the dreams are not under the control of the person who has them and shouldn't be held against them.

->''I just had a wet dream, I'm covered in nut cream. It's all icky, really sticky. I just had a wet dream''

* ''Manga/UmiNoMisaki'': Rinne had an EroticDream that may have caused a feminine NocturnalEmission.

* Serves as the basis for one of Creator/{{Bill Cosby}}'s stand-up routines.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': In Season Two, Angel starts having '[[NocturnalEmission dreams]]' about his maker. It turns out that Darla is dosing him with magic to drive him nuts.

* Also suggested in Music/BruceSpringsteen's "I'm On Fire" when he sings "Last night I woke up with [[EmbarrassingWetSheets the sheets soaking wet]]" while thinking about his JailBait subject.

* Series/TheDailyShow - Jon Stewart, in response to a RushLimbaugh sound bite of accusing Obama's immigration policy to be "a dictator's wet dream", had this to say:

[[AManIsNotAVirgin Men]] [[ImAManICantHelpIt are]] [[TheUnfairSex such]] [[AllMenArePerverts perverts]] that they even ejaculate in their sleep. There is a perfectly normal (i.e. non-perverted) biological explanation for this, but Fiction Land likes to pretend that it's always a result of an EroticDream and/or ADateWithRosiePalms. Also, in Fiction Land, women never do this. (In real life, they do, but barring female ejaculation it's a lot harder for women to tell in the morning.) TruthInTelevision for both sexes, though this phenomenon is more the exception than the rule.

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* Now that masturbation is less stigmatized, it's possible that many younger men haven't had, or have forgotten the experience. If you want to refresh your memory, it takes about two to three weeks of complete celibacy before the, ah, pressure builds up enough for a spontaneous nocturnal emission.

* ''Literature/TheRoadToMars'': Carlton (an android built to look like DavidBowie) is marketed as such. His advertising copy describes him as "a cross between a wet dream and a [[ADateWithRosiePalms wank]]."

* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' Jerin washes the blankets "soiled by dreams" of a woman. It's a good think for him he does the whole laundry, so there's no embarassment.