Matthew McConaughey Recalls Bizarre 'Wet Dream' Months Before Meeting Wife Camila Alves

The dream seemed to confirm that the actor was meant to be a husband and father.

LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 28: Camila Alves McConaughey and Matthew McConaughey attend "The Lost Bus" UK Special Screening at Curzon Mayfair on September 28, 2025 in London, England.
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Sorry, GloRillaMatthew McConaughey knew he'd be a one-woman man when he met his now-wife, Camila Alves McConaughey.

According to Us Weekly, the Academy Award winner wrote in his Lyrics of Livin' newsletter about how he manifested Mrs. McConaughey in a "wet dream" just months before he met her. The couple met in 2006, married six years later and share three children together.

In the piece, the actor recounted how he'd spent years casually dating and was determined to find his person.

"I had met, spent time with, and seriously dated some wonderful women in my life, many of whom I am still friends with today, but ultimately they were all stops, no stays," McConaughey wrote. "In my mid-30s, I was looking for a lifetime lover, a best friend, and a mother-to-be. I was looking for more, I was looking for the one, I was looking for her."

It was in the dream that McConaughey saw himself at 88-years-old and celebrating his birthday among 22 women and 88 children. Although the ladies weren't his wives, each of them shared an "idyllic memory" with the actor and were the mothers of his kids.

"We hugged, we kissed, we laughed and joked, we cried tears of happiness. They all gathered around me on the porch for a family photograph, and we looked toward a large-format box camera on a tripod at the top of the driveway," the actor wrote. '"Three! Two! One!' Then I came."

fAlthough McConaughey saw the dream as "beautiful," it was also a warning and "red light vision of being a lifelong bachelor." "It was a spiritual sign, a message to surrender, to quit trying so intentionally to find the perfect woman for me, and, rather, concede to the natural selection process of finding her, her finding me, or not," he continued. "So I quit looking for her."

But as soon as McConaughey called off his search for a wife, he met her three months later. "Twenty years later she’s still the only woman I’ve ever wanted to take on a date, sleep with, or wake up next to."

On November 4, Mrs. McConaughey celebrated her husband's 56th birthday with a black and white photo of him at the beach.

"Yeap… 🙈😂 you are Alright…Alright…Alright… Happy Birthday babe! ❤️Hoo today we will celebrate YOU! But we truly ALWAYS do because you are the light of our lives!! Thank you for being YOU!!" she captioned the post.

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