Sex with celebs? Or multiple partners? In your dreams . . .

MEN may spend much more of their waking time thinking about sex than women, but both sexes give the subject equal billing in their dreams.

That’s according to a Canadian study — and the research flies in the face of previous research that suggested the fairer sex had far fewer erotic dreams than the male of the species.

But that’s where the similarities end. For the most part, male and female sex fantasies — even in the land of nod — tend to conform to gender stereotypes, the author of the study says.

While women tend to fantasise about film stars, politicians, rock stars or lovers past and present, men tend to visualise themselves making love to multiple partners in public or unknown settings.

The women who took part in the study were twice as likely than the men to have dreams featuring celebrities. For the women, they included actors Brad Pitt or George Clooney, or rocker Bono.

The men, on the other hand, reported dreams featuring multiple sex partners twice as often as the women.

Lovers past and present turned up in 20% of the women’s dreams but only 14% of the men’s. In their fantasies, the men almost never had to put their ego on the line and come on to a woman. In about 90% of the erotic dreams they logged and reported to investigators, the women made the first move.

Study author, Antonio Zadra, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Montreal in Canada, said: “The men had women coming on to them — at least in their dreams.”

Given the usual social norms of the dating and courtship world, she says, that pattern may reflect wishful thinking.