Ever had a nightmare that was gun-related?

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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.
 
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.
 
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!
 
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...:)
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
you CAN control your dreams,,,

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:
 
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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) :eek:
 
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!
 
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.
 
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
 
You mean no one ever had the dream where you tell a scantily-dressed Brittney Spears 'No, I'm too tired.'
Click to expand...

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.
 
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.
 
Interesting common thread.

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!]"
 
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.
 
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
 
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
 
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.
 
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)
 
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