Ever have nightmares about poor gun safety?

[DigMe]

Last night I had a dream twice in which an older woman was picking up a 1911 style pistol in my presence just to check it out and she was looking at it with her finger on the trigger. I kept yelling "Finger off the trigger! Finger OFF the trigger!"

Talking in my sleep is a normal occurrence and my wife said that although she couldn't understand what I was saying when she woke up last night she said I did sound very serious and was almost yelling.



brad cook

 

[rock jock]

Gun safety? No. Gun quality? All the time. Typically the gun I am holding crumbles apart in my hand. And the kicker is, I swear I own no junk guns.

 

[Carlos Cabeza]

Might be a good thing. To help your conscience recognize unsafe behavior or practices of your own or of others.

 

[Keith]

Sounds like a sex thing to me - Freud used to dream about Teutonic maidens with Lugers...

Keith

 

[BHPshooter]

Not safety related, as in "finger off trigger" or "unload that gun," but I have had nightmares relating to my OWN safety...

Sometimes when I sleep someplace other than my house, without my pistol, I have dreams about needing it and not having it -- robberies, murders, etc. It's not a fun dream to have.

I have also had dreams about a militia scenario where I couldn't get anyone to sell me ammo for my BHP because I'm not 21 yet, even though I was part of their militia.

Or, the worst, is you are having a dream about needing your gun. You get your gun, front sight, press, *click!* And for no reason whatsoever, your gun won't fire.

Wes

 

[zahc]

Yeah I have. Someone gets hurt 'accidentaly' or one of the horror scenarios already mentioned. They're like the dream where you can't run for some reason, you feel helpless.

 

[pax]

I've had nightmares any time I've taken very intensive training, and for awhile right around the time I first started shooting. I figure it's just the brain trying to process new information and come to grips with risks I hadn't considered before.

pax

 

[Khornet]

YES

bad dreams in which I shoot carelessly and hit a neighbor's pet, or fire into the air in a congested area and then sweat out where the bullet will fall. Also dreams of one of my beloved fine guns turning out to be a piece of junk.

 

[spacemanspiff]

a few nights ago i had a dream where i was up against two assailants, very close quarters, and my .45 rounds COM didnt drop them.

 

[TearsOfRage]

Recently I went shooting with someone who turned out to be rather careless about safety. That night I dreamed that I went to the place we were shooting (just a clearing out in the woods where the locals go plinking) and there was a No Shooting sign there.

 

[St. Gunner]

Yep, three years ago I had an AD in the house, I call it a DAD for Dumb Discharge. I have woken up once or twice a week since having dreams about the course of that 130gr speer hotcore out of a .270win. I was home alone, bone tired, and not in a condition to be messing with anything. I had been dry firing and for some reason worked the bolt and pulled the trigger, killing the mounted deer dead a 2nd time.

I wake up sweating and scared to death, normally the dream involves me killing someone. Or hitting a gas line and it exploding. It has been the most traumaitic event in my life. I can tell you touching a .270 off full of H1000 in your living room is a life changing experience.

Not fun and not an incident I am proud of, but I have been shooting since I was about ten, i'm 28 now, went 15yrs without a hitch, then one day when I was to exhausted to think straight I made a major mistake. It haunts me alot, i'm sure it will tonight after writing about it.

a deer mount, a 2x4" wall, across a ten foot room and lodged in the header in the bathroom after ripping a 6" gash in the ceiling. I couldn't hear for about an hour, the dog peed all the way down the hall, it was a real mess to clean up.

Now I have confessed...

 

[slh02]

Not about gun safety...

But every once in a while I have a dream that I can not pull the trigger on a gun when I need it to save my life. Like I dont have enough strength in my hand to pull the trigger. I ALWAYS wake up in a cold sweat after that dream!

 

[natedog]

Me too, slh02. Except in my dream I can shoot. The bad guy is only a few feet away, but every shot I shoot misses. I feel like shooting A LOT the next day