[BHPshooter]

Oh boy, I had one last night.

I guess there's some of the Halloween Spirit getting to me, because it was pretty, uh, involved with the paranormal. But in a nutshell, let's just say this: I was packin' my Browning, I needed it, and I wasn't carrying a reload. Oh man.

The funny thing is, I haven't had a nightmare in so long I can't remember. What's even funnier is that this dream was really, truly scary. I kid you not, I can't go back to sleep. :eek: :uhoh: And it wasn't just one of those short dreams, this was the point of all of last night's dream. Hmmm, it really makes me think.

Anybody else?

Cheers,
Wes :scrutiny:

[Futo Inu]

Many many times I have had dreams where I am carrying, get jumped or whathaveyou, and for some reason the trigger on my CCW gat won't pull back, no matter how hard I pull - the results are not good, obviously. Usually I get stabbed - must be my worst subconcious fear. Occasionally in one of these dreams, my gun works fine and I waste the bad guys - wake up feeling triumphant, yet still perturbed - after all, before victory was a lot of stress.

[Skunkabilly]

Sometimes...like remember when you're a kid and you have those dreams you get the toy you always wanted then you wake up and you're still in your room, no Decepticon Starscream?

Once in a while I'll dream I had a Colt lower with a Bushmaster Dissipator M4 profile barrel with Wilson muzzlebrake, ACOG, Singlepoint sling, Surefire, 30 round mags and a carbon fiber handguard laying around....then I wake up and I'm still in untacticalifornia :(

[Futo Inu]

Skunk, I've done that with both cars and guns. In very realistic dream, I get a brand new corvette/tundra/MP5/whatever somehow, and am quite sure it's mine all mine for all time, and a lot of cussing goes on when I wake.

[Kentucky Rifle]

KR

[Balog]

Hmmm, a few years back when I lived with my parents I had one wherein a large gentleman with an industrial size meat cleaver was attempting to do a bit of impromptu plastic surgery on me. As I recall, my shotgun persistantly either misfired or had no effect. Oddly enough, I couldn't get any of our cars to start either. Maybe God's trying to send me a message about my relationship with mechanical devices.:)

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[TarpleyG]

Slow running, guns not firing, cars not starting are common themes in dreams. I also happen to not be able to swing a punch in my dreams. Must be the same thing.

I have frequent "strange" dreams. I don't refer to them as nightmares because they do not frighten me. In fact, I rather enjoy them. Like watching a movie (in color no doubt). My wife says I need therapy. Maybe she's on to something there.

GT

[Carlos Cabeza]

I occasionally have this dream that I am in the supermarket checkout line and some masked armed robbers burst in and start shooting people and demanding "OPEN THE SAFE M......F.......er !" and I can't seem to get the gun out of the IWB holster :rolleyes: then, when I mange to clear leather I fumble with the safety, have trouble with seeing the sights and can't hit a damn thing ! There's some innocent pregnant woman that keeps getting in the way of my shooting the BG's and eventually I am shot to death laying in the floor of the market. I can see myself lying there like an out of body or something.:scrutiny: Pretty spooky dream, so it makes me really try to focus hard on training when at the range.

[Kharn]

I had a nightmare a few months ago about being in a firefight with a Terminator. I kept shooting while my (now ex-) girlfriend handed me loaded firearms to blaze away with, with the firefight taking place all over the house. The dream ended with the Terminator's head hiding behind the spice rack in the cabinet above the stove, and my shooting at it while it shot back with a Beretta 92. Dont ask how the head was able to fire the Beretta, but it did.

I had a dream last night where my cousin (my shooting instructor) was checking out an 11.5" barrel/5.5" muzzle braked Ar15 I had just bought, and he was somehow able to unscrew the 5.5" brake by hand (legally would have to be permanetly attached). The dream ended right as he was starting to say "I'm gonna have to tell the ATF about this." :what:
That one took a while to get back to sleep afterward (my cellphone did its 'Dead battery'-beeping, which is what woke me up).

Skunk:
I've had it happen before a few times, but I forget what the objects were.

If I sleep through the night, I dont remember my dreams, but if something/someone wakes me up between 12 and 5am, I usually remember some really wierd ones.

Kharn

[ocabj]

Many many times I have had dreams where I am carrying, get jumped or whathaveyou, and for some reason the trigger on my CCW gat won't pull back, no matter how hard I pull - the results are not good, obviously.

Holy crap. I thought I was the only person who has this type of dream. Scary.

[Echo23TC]

Had one about a week ago wherein I pulled both triggers on my SxS, saw the shot patterns just below the throat/torso intersection and no effect. Fortunately, I woke up at that point.

[P95Carry]

I think the solid trigger and FTF situation is same really as the drowning dreams .. where you can't get to surface ..... or the ones where you wanna run and the legs are lead!!

Funnily enough this very morning I had a repeat dream .... not nightmare really ..... whereby I was in UK and yet with my normal carry plus pocket backup piece. Busy chatting to people and about to show one or other and suddenly realizing ..... ''holy crap'' ..... :rolleyes: Don't wanna do that!

So far in that one I have gotten away with it and not been ''made'' :D

[Abominable No-Man]

I dream about double-feeds sometimes. Typical thing, I fire one shot and spend the next part of eternity trying to get it unjammed. Doesn't really scare me, though, my guns work fine. It's usually something I haven't used before or don't own myself.

ANM

[sch40]

They're usually one of the most frustrating dreams I have. I've never had a malf. or can't pull the trigger. What usually happens is that there is no resistance to the trigger, and the gun has no effect -- sometimes nothing happens, bus sometimes the gun goes about its action without any blast/bullet... so annoying.

Knife fights in my dreams kick butt, though. Whether I'm losing or pulling a "doctor" (http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44895) , the're usually action-packed and great training :D

-sch40

[Okiecruffler]

Yes, but how do these dreams make you feel? And tell me about your mother.

[zahc]

Dreams of shooting groups and animals, or owning cool guns, only to wake up to extremely disappointing reality.

Dreams of needing a gun but it's just out of reach or ammo is in the safe, or it jams, or hand gets smashed too bad to use.

Have an ND/AD.

[bigjoegood1]

I too had the recurring nightmare that there was a BG in my home to do harm to me and me tribe an my SKS would never fire! This dream occurred off and on for about 3 years and I had no faith in my SKS (I had purchased the rifle in '97 and my first time firing it was in '03). The first time I went to pull the trigger the gun just clicked! I almost fainted until I figured out that I hadn't even cocked the durn thing! I has performed flawlessly since that day.

[PawDaddy]

I have had numerous dreams about being confronted by a BG and not being able to get the gun out, or being shot before I can pull the trigger.

However, in the last couple of dreams that I have had relating to this subject, I was successful in getting the shot/shots off and stopping the BG.

It's funny how so many of us have dreams such as this!

We have these dreams because this type of thing is on our minds alot. I think that we ponder over such situations so often that we tend to dream these dreams. Dreams really do not mean anything. When a dream "comes true" or similar things happen in real life like in our dreams, it is purely coincedental.

God does not reveal anything to anyone in dreams or in any way other than through His inspired word, which is the Bible. II Timothy 3:16-17

[Dorian]

Many many times I have had dreams where I am carrying, get jumped or whathaveyou, and for some reason the trigger on my CCW gat won't pull back, no matter how hard I pull

Wow! This is the most frequent one I have! I used to have them a lot.

Recently I've actually been having some REALLY COOL tactical firefight dreams, mixed in with the no trigger working dream.

The scariest one by far, however, is the one that woke me up in a cold sweat. I don't remember anything about the dream other than the end. I was spinning my USP around on my finger like a cowboy, and as it got to the point of aiming right at my chest, I pulled the trigger(as it was spinning) and BANG! I woke up... And my chest where I had "shot myself" in my dream was stinging.

[BHPshooter]

Slow running, guns not firing, cars not starting are common themes in dreams. I also happen to not be able to swing a punch in my dreams. Must be the same thing.

That is usually what happens to me in my dreams, but such was not the case last night. I think that's part of why it was so scary. My arms, legs, guns, and cars all worked just fine. This is very unusual for me.

I have frequent "strange" dreams. I don't refer to them as nightmares because they do not frighten me. In fact, I rather enjoy them. Like watching a movie (in color no doubt). My wife says I need therapy. Maybe she's on to something there.

Yeah, I dream in color too. This was anything but enjoyable, though. I don't really want to explain it, it is so odd, but it was pretty striking.

But I shot just fine, and my gun performed well -- both of these seem to be an unusual outcome in dreams. What bothered me the most was 1) the complete feeling of terror (you know, that feeling), 2) not having as mush ammo as I needed, and 3) Boy, oh boy, did I need it.

I know it's just a dream, but I have to disagree with the comment that dreams mean nothing. I think sometimes dreams do mean things. I guess this dream is just a good reminder of what they've told me in the boy scouts all my life: Be Prepared.

Cheers,
Wes

[Sunray]

"...Terminator's head hiding behind the spice rack..." If her cooking is that bad, don' t tell her. Just do it yourself.
My "nightmares" only involve running out of ammo at inopportune moments. Happened once in July, 25th, I think it was, of 1876.

[semf]

I'm laying in bed, half asleep. I looked up and see me in the doorway looking at me. I raise an AK to my shoulder and aim it at me. I shoot me in the side and giggle walk out the door.

It was one of those dreams where you think you're awake. I remember it vividly. Trying to focus my eyes and figure out why I'm in the doorway.
The impact was so real that it knocked me across the bed (according to my wife) And it hurt enough that I spent the whole next day looking at my side to see if a bullet hole would appear.
I really need to get a shrink to figure this one out.

[kalibear45]

I had a dream the other day - I was inside a castle and had to go up a long flight of stairs up the tower and going into all these rooms fighting all sorts of weird creatures but all I had was a sword! :what:

Could've done a lot more damage with a 12-gauge or an M-16 :D

[Daniel T]

semf, that could be serious. I would definately get that checked out. I know that one thing that can cause that kind of dream and physical reaction is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Not saying that's your problem, but it can have similar symptoms.

I also occasionally have the 1000lb trigger pull dream too. Then I realize it's a Glock. :D

[T.Stahl]

Many, many years ago I had a dream that involved a horde of zombies and me carrying a small, compact lever-action. I hit them again and again, but they didn't go down. Many years later, surfing Winchester's homepage, I came across the '94 Ranger Compact', the rifle of my dream. Now it's on my to-buy-list. ;)
I frequently have dreams involving guns, sometimes they involve my Glock, but I can't see it (Might that be a reference to the porcelain Glock? ;) ). Once I dreamed about my Enfield. Most of the times the nightmareish thing about the dreams is that I score hits on the bad guys, but they won't go down.

[bogie]

A while back, I'm in an iffy neighborhood, and my brother is in a coffee shop chatting with like-minded people. I can't find the door, so I walk though a plastic sheet, get him, and take him outside to the car. We're walking to the car, and an obese/pregnant black teenage female, and proceeds to attempt a robbery with a .22/25 auto. I get shot in center mass, but it's like "hey, it's just a popgun, so I can still react, and I'll be okay if I get to the ER soon, so let's react," and then I woke up.

[Nightcrawler]

I've had dreams where I was being attacked. In one, I tried to punch the guy, but couldn't hit hard enough to make him do anything but laugh at me. In another, I was in a dangerous place with badguys after me and I couldn't find my gun. In yet another, I actually shot a guy, twice, with my FAL, but nothing happened; I didn't miss, but it was like I was using blanks.

I think stuff like that is a common theme in dreams; not being able to fight back or defend yourself, not being able to get away, etc. Being powerless is something most of us fear, so it's something we have nightmares about.

[Travis McGee]

I used to have the "trigger won't pull" dream all hte time. Other times, I'd have the wrong magazines or ammo. Very frustrating!

[Frohickey]

You mean no one ever had the dream where you tell a scantily-dressed Brittney Spears 'No, I'm too tired.'

:D :p :D

[glockten]

I had one last night that I still remember vividly, which is unusual for me.

I'm in some Central American town. Two American secret agents have been gunned down in the street. I and another American are accompanying the local police to recover the bodies. There are two Italian Spectre subguns lying on the ground, so I pick one up in case the ambushers return.

But the local police chief takes it from me and empties the mag into a tree. I'm thinking to myself "well that was stupid, now we're unarmed!" I look down, and there are two Mosin-Nagants on the ground, each with a full bandolier of stripper clip-loaded ammo. So I get one of those, load it, and we go on our way.

My subconscious should get time-and-a-half, because it's definitely working overtime.

I used to have FTF dreams a lot, but the last few times I attempted to fire in a dream, the BG went down. Maybe I'm living right.


















Nahhhhhh...:)

[winstonsmith]

I had one last night where I was a soldier in 'Nam, beating the bush. My team gets ambushed and wiped out except for me. So I try to run away, but I can't see. My head is pointing down and I can't look up. And I can't exactly run right, I'm always drifting off my course.

But mostly my gun related dreams are GOOD. For some reason I'm usually in a war. I've had a few D-day ones, which were accurate down to where I was on the beach, what unit I belonged to, and my fate (IE when I was in the first wave at Omaha, I got hit in the gut and watched my boys climb up the beach and get wiped out)

Oh, and I dream in intense color. I usually view my dreams from the outside looking at myself, and I cut and do close ups in my dreams, probably because I am attending film school.

[Abenaki]

I had a dream once that was so realistic, it was like I was really there.
I dreamed that I was a WW2 fighter pilot in the South Pacific. I was flying a Corsair. My buddies and me ran into a bunch of Zero's. I took out 2 of them but in all of the confusion I lost track of one. My buddie is yelling over the radio that it is on my tail. Before I could bank to the right, my plane gets shot up! I have hot oil and smoke coming into the cockpit. Ok, I'm not hurt, I'll just bail out. Well the canopy will not open. So I bang on it and try agian.
The plane starts banking to the right. I still can't get the canopy open. I can see where the ocean and sky meet as the plane rolls upside down! I am banging and shouting as the plane hits the water!

That dream was so realistic.....It is like it's apart of me........of my past.
Abenaki

[sm]

Have watched 2 persons shoot themselves in the leg during a draw.

Witnessed a fellow fire a 12 ga, when a 20 ga shell was inserted first, I picked up his thumb and put on ice for trip to ER.

I do know how loud a full house .357 is at contact. Some other similar 'events' disturbed my sleep those nights.

Seen my share of blood, guts, death in an OR, including GSWs...finished eating afterwards and slept fine.

Must be dissociation.

[bbrins]

Geez. I thought I was messed up. :D


It's been a while since I have had any gun related dreams. Usually I'm shooting a the bad guy over and over with no effect, no sound either. But lately I've had this one where I get shoved from somewhere really high up. On the way down I get that falling feeling in my chest and then I wake up yelling just as I start to come in contact with the ground. Then I usually can't get back to sleep after that.

[IRONFIST]

I had a dream awhile ago that had me on the second floor of a bombed-out mall area, but the rooms and furnishings were all old and antique. Papers and debris everywhere and I have an old bolt action old military rifle, something like a Mauser. I am trying to be very still and quiet because there are enemy soldiers across from me and down in the space between the buildings... and these buildings seem to be very close together as well. Maybe 15 or 20 feet apart. I aim down at the debris in the open space between the buildings and see a Nazi-looking soldier holding a pigeon while he sits under a poncho. He is whispering to it and feeding it some food. I line up my iron sights on the side of his helmet and squeeze the trigger. No sound at all, but I see him slump over and start vomiting blood. Somehow my rifle has grown a huge see-thru suppressor on the end of the barrel, but the suppressor is a foot across and 2 feet long with a channel down the middle so that I can still see the sights. There are little LED lites blinking inside the suppressor and I realize that it is very quietly calling out the range of whatever I point at. It has a womans voice, like the computer on Star Trek. I wait and in the building across from me I see a group of Nazi officers walking thru the rubble, pointing at paintings and talking quietly. They are wearing big crested, and plumed Napolean hats. I set my rifle up, hear the range estimate and aim at the last guy in line. Bingo, down he goes and the others don't notice. I kill the rest the same way. As I shoot them, again with no sound, their blood sprays onto the wall and the paintings. Its very strange, their blood only sticks inside the frame... not the wall. The walls stay perfectly clean. As I ponder this I feel a rifle barrel tickle my ear. I turn my head real slow and look up at the ruined, bloody face of the first Nazi I had shot... Then I woke up. I don't know if he pulled the trigger or not. I really don't consider this a nightmare, but it was extremley vivid and detailed. My breath smelled and so did my clothes, I was faintly hungry and I was counting my ammo as I was setting up the shots at the Nazi officers. My dreams are usually like the one above, in that they are very real and fleshed out and seem to go on for quite awhile. So, there is my contribution to the thread!

Michael

[Dionysusigma]

Whenever my dreams go awry and guns are involved, it's things like:
1) Just when I have everything lined up, I begin pointing up and away from the target as I'm pulling the trigger. Annoying, as I can only hit the wall.
2) Every magazine I have is empty.
3) I'm firing blanks, esp. when attacker is particularly evil/ nasty-looking.
4) I'm using a Glock :barf: and the trigger won't pull even if the little trigger safety is pulled back. That, and the grips are terrible, so I get a bad case of (1).
5) My vision is either dark, extremely blurry, I can only look in one direction (a la WinstonSmith's post) or a combination of the above. Or no matter how fast I move, I move really slow.
6) I get some part of me blown off (like an arm or my head, et al) before I can react.

Mostly, though, my dreams are the more interesting type rather than nightmares. I dream in color, I can control every aspect (unless it is a nightmare) and remember 3/4 of them. The control part is really fun--if for some reason I have a rock in my hand whilst being attacked, I can "will" it into a Walther P99 or DE .50, etc. :D Also complete control of siuation, terrain, people... and everyone wonders why I love sleep so much. :) It's meditation; it's food for the soul.

[280PLUS]

so you CAN (over time) pull that trigger in your dream, kill the bg's whatever

i had trouble fighting back with fists in my dreams, no matter how hard i tried i could either not throw a punch or if i could it would be slow motion and have no power or effect

i can throw a good one now,,,

it just takes practice, will whatever you want to happen

it helps to reinforce that by saying to yourself as you fall asleep "if i have a gun dream that trigger WILL pull back and my gun WILL fire and i WILL get the bg" (for example)

the only one i remember is the one where i DIDNT have a gun but the other guy did (soldier type) and it was some form of auto rifle.

so i was trying to run away but i got caught against a chain link fence and thats when he opened up and got me numerous times in the back,

i remember thinking(?) "it doesnt even hurt" as i slumped down with my face against the fence and faded into death

then i woke up...

last night i had a dream that marcel marceau was groaning with pleasure as i scratched his ears and fed him carrots

not too too strange if you understand that THIS marcel is a horse,,,

:D

oh, dreams are also an excellent means of sorting out your problems

many times i've gone to bed with a tricky (eg) electrical control panel problem and woke up in the middle of the night with the answer!!

so the saying "sleep on it" actually carries a lot of good advice within it's 3 little words...

gee. i hope my little story doesnt give anybody nightmares,,,:eek:

[Skunkabilly]

Not guns, but explosives.

Most of my dreams are this beeping and disarming a bomb...and I wake up and my alarm clock didn't go off! :uhoh:

(stepped into work 8 minutes late this AM) :o

[P95Carry]

How about this aspect? ............. When I used to shoot compo's a lot ... that would often be a dream theme ....

I'd be on the line, and dream in intense (color) detail about the course of fire ..... gun always fired, sounds were there - and the smells. But, now here's the interesting aspect ..

I was often able to interrupt ... (takin a leak) ....... and RESUME !! As long as I did not wake too much I could get back into bed .. and ''see'' the last scene if you will ....... and the whole thing could continue!!

Still can happen even now ...... but the critical factor is not losing the visual detail of that last scene ....... all too often I find that within seconds of gaining consciousness ... it fades, fast. I ''know'' approx what I dreamed but .. all detail has evaporated. Sometimes very annoying when wanting to recall a good one. But maybe good if it was a bad 'un!

[CJ]

Mark me up for the 'ineffective shooting' category. Convenience store setting and managing to get a BG's Skorpion-style subguns. Another BG turns towards me and I fire from 10 feet away...and completely miss him as packages pop all around him.

[IRONFIST]

P95carry... I have had the same experience. I can wake up in the middle of a fascinating dream, get a sip of water and resume the dream as soon as I lay down. It doesn't happen every time, but once in awhile it does. I think dreams rock and I always look forward to what the next one will be.

Michael

[Wayne D]

You mean no one ever had the dream where you tell a scantily-dressed Brittney Spears 'No, I'm too tired.'


Actually it's the girl from High School that I never got up the nerve to ask out.:D

I've had the 100 lb. trigger pull dream. One where I had plenty of time to get my favorite 1911 but I can't find the ammo. And the one where I'm making good shots but they are ineffective. Not being able to pull the trigger is the worst one.

I had one about going through old boxes in my Dad's attic and finding all these cool old guns, like WW2 era Walthers and Berettas and Colt Woodmans, then waking up to realize it's just a dream.

[Pumpkinheaver]

Yeah last night in fact. I got my tax return back and the old lady went to the mall and spent it all. It's gun related because I was supposed to buy a new gun or two with it.

[Matt G]

I too find that in my dreams, my double actions are SOOOO hard, that I can't get them to pull back. I've actually awaken with a sore wrist from clenching so hard.

Single actions, like my 1911, will pull back, but the mainspring is suddenly wayyyyy too weak, and I'll realize that there's something (like left over grease) blocking the hammer from really smacking the firing pin hard enough. "[click]". Thumb it back, drop hammer, and "[clock!]"

[Mike Irwin]

Yeah, a waking one.

Called "Any product by AMT."

But, to tell you the truth, I've had the "failure to perform" dreams in the past where I've been trying to shoot an agressor and the trigger pull on my gun suddenly zooms to 1,000 pounds...

[Ladybug]

Hmm, funny thing, I was just talking about this other day... I think - and PLEASE correct me if I'm totally wrong - but I think violent dreams are mostly a "guy thing." I don't think I've EVER had a nightmare or dream that involved any type of weapon or attack. The only nightmares I've had were ones where I'm drowning or my mother is dying or something like that. My husband, on the other hand, has nightmares almost every night - I love waking him up and asking what he's dreaming about.. he's always being chased and shot, or beaten up, etc.

[atek3]

I have lots of nightmares, wierdly enough they occur mostly when I sleep in the same bed as my female roomate (I'm a guy) figure that out? :)

However the last vivid one i can think of was I was paranoid about people stealing my stuff, i mean people KEPT TRYING TO TAKE MY STUFF, and I responded first verbally, then loudly verbally, I drew, and then under massive stress I shot wildly killing my assailent more from the shear weight of lead rather than accurate shot placement. Freud where are you?

atek3

[atek3]

actually i had kinda a good one. I was under attack except I only had two rounds for my scoped match rifle, so i had to make them count, I did, but then i don't remember what happened :)

atek3

[mrbill]

i have dreams all the time where my weapon won't fire, no matter how hard/far i pull the trigger. in these dreams, i usually have to resort to snapping necks to dispatch the attackers.

[Dorrin79]

I've had nightmares where guns wouldn't fire, jammed, or even worse - worked perfectly but had no effect on the target several times.

Seems to happen most often after my occasional weekend-long videogame marathons.

Which is strange because its not like guns in videogames break (with the exception of the weapons in System Shock II)

[Zackmeister]

I too have the million pound trigger pull problem in some of my dreams. I just imagine what a psychiatrist would say. "Hey doc, I cant ever seem to get my gun to go off when I am trying to kill the three headed monster!" Probably wind up with some pretty strong prescriptions.

[Country Boy]

I've had the 1000lb, gravel filled trigger pull in my dreams as well. It's a good thing I shoot a single action semi, I couldn't imagine how tough it would be if I shot a revolver.:p

[Country Boy]

I've had the 1000lb, gravel filled trigger pull in my dreams as well. It's a good thing I shoot a single action semi, I couldn't imagine how tough it would be if I shot a revolver.:p