Gun nightmares

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I have a confession.

Ever since I got into firearms, and particularly when I started carrying regularly, I've had gun-related nightmares.

I keep having the same one though more than any other.

Basically, out of nowhere I'm in the middle of a bad situation during which my life and the life of whoever I'm with is in danger, and I have no choice but to draw (the details vary from dream to dream). The problem is that in the dream, I experience complete SNS shutdown and I just freeze and basically watch in slow-motion as horrible things unfold.

What I'm wondering, is whether or not this is just a dream, and whether you guys ever have any like this - and also whether or not it is indicative of how I would really react in such a situation.

This dream is extremely frightening to say the least.
 
This topic has come up before, but I'm always happy to revisit it.:D

My gun nightmares usually involve one of these two scenarios:

1) Something bad happens where I need to use them. I go into my gun room to load up, only to discover that I have lots of ammo in different calibers, none of which fit any of my guns!

2) Somebody has stolen my guns, either out of my car or house, and I wander around looking for them. Sometimes the search takes me to other countries, usually on foot. :confused:
 
Horrors

My nightmares are not pleasant to me either.

They tend to follow the course of me being in a situation where I absolutely must draw my carry piece. Generally it's a store, theater, church etc. that I do frequent.

I engage the threat and manage to kill him before and without having anyone seriously injured after I acted.

But just as I realize it's over I realize it's not, there is a 2nd or in some cases third bad guy and I just don't have enough ammo or any to continue the fight.

I've had others but these are the most common. It was because of these that I began carrying my 226 and occasionally my Berretta instead of my Sig239. I just couldn't bear the thought of running out of ammo before the fight is really and truly over.
 
For me the gun nightmares (rare - maybe once a year) break down into two events:

1. Gun fires but bullet drops out of the end of the barrel and just lays there.
2. Gun doesn't fire even though it's loaded. No amount of slide racking, magazine punchin', bolt workin', no amount of reloadin', nothin' will make the sucker fire:

Which inevitably leads to me exercising option two via the feet. But then they'll only move in slow motion like I'm tryin' to run thru molasses or something. I don't ever get caught by what ever in the dream is out to get me but still... :what:
 
I'm glad I'm not the only one this has happened to....

This hasn't happened in several years, but I used to have a recurring nightmare about having to use my P89 to defend my wife and kids and not being able to pull the trigger. Not psychologically unable mind you but physically. In the dream the gun must've had a 500lb. DA trigger pull. Weird huh?:confused:
 
I get the hundred pound trigger pull dream. Always wake up in a cold sweat with that one.

David

ETA - Darn, you beat me to it.
 
Mine are also the impossibly strong trigger dreams. I think they're linked to the sleep-induced paralysis people often get.
 
Don't worry, everyone has these sorts of dreams sometimes. For folks like us it's the 1000 pound trigger or the 1fps bullet. I've heard when sheeple have these dreams they try to run away and can't. No joke. :evil:
 
In my dreams, my guns never fire. Paging Dr. Freud...:uhoh:



Or, the one where they do fire is when I shoot my brother in the head but he just keeps talking.:scrutiny:
 
This thread made me laugh. I have had lots of dreams that are similar, but they don't involve guns. In my bad dreams (maybe 3 or 4 times a year, that I remember) I'm always trying to hit or kick somebody in a fight, but my hands or feet move REALLY slow. So, I don't really hurt them. The same thing goes for when I have to run in my dreams. I'm always extremely slow.
 
Nightmares like these are often caused by post traumatic stress, and can last throughout a person's lifetime. Even if you have never experienced PTS (not PTSD but nightmares could also be due to this) that involved a shooting situation, you could have such dreams in anticipation of such a traumatric situation, or based upon past traumatic situations that you may have forgotten conciously but not subconciously.

Having a gun, especially for self defense, gets you into a mental state in which you basically expect violence to occur. If you have any amount of self doubt about facing such a violent encounter, even subconciously (especially if the doubt is enhanced by prior feelings of helplessness during earlier traumatic experiences) then those feelings can come out in your dreams. These feelings are often expressed in your dreams as you not being able to respond as you think you should to a violent encounter, in essence as you being helpless. The gun comes into play because that is how you now believe you would handle such an encounter. It does not work in the dream because the dream is playing up the feeling of helplessness you experience with a traumatic situation, either one you have experienced or one you expect to experience.

All the best,
Glennmund Freud :uhoh:
 
Can't pull trigger. Bullet lobs out of the barrel. No matter how hard I try I can't get enough forward lead on a moving target. And in all of these I end up in public in my BVDs- not a pretty sight.:eek:
 
My consistent one is that I get a call that I need to go pick up my brother... He's the kinda guy who makes the folks who a lot of people here call "liberals" seem like they're to the right of Rush...

So, anywho, he's in a downtown metro coffeehouse. The windows and walls are that heavy plastic strip stuff, like you see on some walk-in freezers. I finally get his attention, and he starts to come out, and that's when a teenage female street critter draws a small caliber pistol and shoots me center mass. That's it.
 
sounds like mine is a slight variation of the "heavy trigger" dream which several of you say you've had.

Now, I need to figure out how to get the dream to go away, and I suppose the only way is to make myself feel more confident with more training?
 
My reoccuring gun nightmare is that I can't pull the trigger when it is needed most. Sometimes the details change, but overall, the trigger wont work no matter how hard I try.

Every once in a I have a great, very realistic dream where I come across hundreds of guns, mostly EBRs. Its a beautiful dream, but of course, I always have to wake up :banghead: .
 
Ya, I got one too.

Since I'm mainly a rifle guy instead of handgun, my nightmare is that I need to load up fast but I keep trying to put the shell into the chamber backwards!:cuss:
 
Mine used to be where I can pull the trigger, but no boom. In real life I had been practicing with my CCW P-95 and commercial reloads, several would FTF. Used WWB from then on and no more of that dream. :barf:

Now the bad dreams are where I have to engage multiple targets. I hit most, but it doesn't stop them all the way, or not at all. Now what would I have to change in my practices to realize a hit target willmost likely be stopped ( I carry .45acp now). Steel plate silhouette's?

Justin
 
Sometimes I dream about winning the lottery or getting a large amount of money and then going on a massive spending spree for guns of all kinds. (Also cars and yachts)

One time I dreamt about finding a refrigerator in the woods that contained pristine Thompson SMGs and BARs left over from the prohibition days

I don't think those are "nightmares" but they do feel like one when I wake up.:(
 
I used to have dreams of pulling my handgun (revolver) and shooting once or twice, wildly, and missing, and then taking the time to align the sights and shoot...HIT!....but it only staggers the badguy back. Shoot...HIT!...but he is getting back up, etc etc.

Thing is, it wasn't really gun related. It was related to my life situation at the time, when I spent a bit of time unwisely, and then progressed to living on my own. I had a job, but the paycheck went to rent, food, electric, insurance, and battling down credit card debt, etc etc, basically living paycheck to paycheck, not really getting ahead. That's what the badguy getting back up was about.

Once the situation changed, and i was able to squirrel away a little bit of a nestegg as well as get rid of all credit card debt, the dreams stopped.
 
my nightmare is that I need to load up fast but I keep trying to put the shell into the chamber backwards!
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Soooo many potential non-high-road-type comments are running through my head due to this thread.:D
 
I occasionally have a dream where I load my remington 870 express shotgun.
And I had one where the mag spring pops out for no reason.:confused:
I had a dream one time where I shot this guy on my driveway with a SKS and it has no effect on him even though I shoot him 3 or 4 times the bullets dont come out or I just see a small flash and nothing happens to the guy.Then I got a .357 magnum revolver and shoot him nothing happens.
Then I get my remington 870 express shotgun and blast him It had little effect.Then I wake up and think what a weird dream If I would have shot that guy with any of those guns in real life he wouldnt be standing there as if nothing happened.
 
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