In all, the participants reported a total of 292 sexual dreams (8.2%).
Sexual intercourse was the theme in 53% of the sexual dreams of men. About 36% of women dreamt about sexual intercourse during sexual dreams. In about 40% of sexual dreams men dreamt about sexual propositions compared with 27% of women. In 4% of sexual dreams men and women "experience" orgasms. However, only women - in about 4% of their sexual dreams - remember their partner having an orgasm.
"It appears," Dr. Zadra said, "that men are more selfish in their dreams than are women." The average age of the men and women whose diaries were studied was 30 years.
For men, about 44% of the sexual dreams are positive expressions of sex, but only 34% of women found the sex in sexual dreams positive in nature. Men dreamt more about sex in public places, and both genders dreamt more about having sex with an unknown partner - as opposed to friends, spouse, or a film star. Less than 10% of each sex dreamed of having sex with a celebrity during sexual dreams.
