Weird gun dreams

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For years I had dreams where I had to shoot some robber or other type of bad guy, but when I pulled the trigger on the gun it would be extremely difficult to move and would never fire. It was like pulling a really difficult, spongy DAO trigger that never went all the way back and the gun would never fire. Had these dreams for years.

Then last night I had a dream where a few guys were invading my house, which was made of all glass for some reason, and my family was inside with me, and I pulled out my .45 and squeezed the trigger, and it was difficult but doable, but when the gun fired the bullets just stuck in the intruders and didn't even hurt them. I ran out of ammo in the .45 and pulled out my .38 and fired some more but these rounds were even worse, the bullets hardly even made it into the intruders' clothes and I could see the back of the bullets sticking out of the people and they weren't hurt in the slightest.

Weird!
 
Kind of like when you try running in a dream, and you can't move for the life of you.
 
I shot at somebody with a rifle in a dream. My first thought wasn't "did I hit 'em? Are they still a threat?" No. It was "Hmm. The hunters who talk about not noticing the sound of the shot while in the field are right. I didn't hear a thing. Hope I'm not losing my hearing. Guess I should've worn earplugs."
 
I actually had a dream last night that my cousin (who is completely trust worthy in real life) stole my Ruger 10/22 and Yugo 59/66 SKS. The 10/22 was gone but he returned the SKS with some strange sporterized stock that really makes no sense at all. It looked like the gas piston area was removed but the receiver was still level with the barrel somehow. The front part of the stock was also cut down to just in front of the magazine.
 
My gujns never work in my dreams

It always frustrates me that my guns never work in my dreams. I end up having to kill everyone with my bare hand or a cutting instrument. I'm inclined the dreams are a result from too many years in the Infantry in bad places and bad times.
 
I have had dreams like that as well, usually I can get shots off but they never hit or do no damage.. Also no bang :confused: Its a very weird thing to wake up and remember.


My gf is now having dreams involving guns as well. :neener: Usually hers seem to involve me shooting some one in defense :D
 
When you sleep, your brain paralyzes your body to keep you from running around hurting yourself because of your dreams. It's called sleep paralysis. When you are in a dream and you have to do something REALLY IMPORTANT like run away or pull the trigger, you actually try to move your body, but your sleep paralysis keeps it from happening. Because you're so excited, you actually start to exit your sleep state and recieve sensory input from your body, which tells you that your trigger finger isn't really moving, or is barely moving. Your brain in the dream then interprets the lack of motion as a very stiff trigger.


Then again, I have a Taurus 85 revolver with a trigger that actually IS like that. I'm sending it in to the factory. My glock has always worked, in my dreams and out.
 
That really funny. The same thing happens to me, but its always with a revolver and I can never get the hammer to cock all the way back. The further it travels the more it sticks until I can't get it to budge. Wierd.
 
Many of you have seen Open Range where Kevin Costner is shooting at the main bad guy with his lever action. I had a dream where the main badguy in that was going to shoot me in the street in front of the grocery store that i worked at back in highschool. Before he was going to shoot me i realized thats its really hard to hit a moving running target with a hangun. So i ran up the street and he's shooting but not hitting me. I then realized i have two revolvers, one is a ruger vaquero and i load that one fine just slowly because i am out of practice and the other is some kind of top break revolver and it just dosent want to load correctly and it ends up malfunctioning. :banghead:
 
I have had the my pistol/revolver won't work dreams also.

They are examples of Anxiety Dreams similar to dreaming you are in school in your underwear and everyone else is dressed or a monster is chasing you and you can't run.

The anxiety can be something very different from the dream, maybe you are breaking up with a girlfriend/boyfriend, have a test coming up, big project at work, re-modeling contractor from hell (my case), anything that makes you anxious.

I learned in college that you can help by telling yourself before you go to sleep that if I have this kind of dream the gun will work or I'll have a BUG that will work or I'll be able to throw a rock like superman, etc.

Supposedly, it is good mental health to overcome the anxiety in the dream? And very bad mental health to die or suffer in your dreams.
 
I have had those gun unloaded dreams or won't shoot. I have also had the ones where my Keltec P-32 blows holes clean through people!
 
Glad to know I'm not the only gun crank out there who has dreams like this. Though the last one I had, the guns worked and the zombies died when I shot 'em. Go figure. Somebody beat me to the sleep paralysis thing, but I've experienced that too. Freaky way to wake up.
 
I seldom remember my dreams, but one that stuck with me was one involving my late father. I inherited some of his guns, which he considered only collector material. Later, I checked a few over and shot them. In my dream, I told him I shot his old Luger. He looked at me like I was nuts, and then looked across the table to my mother and shook his head. That's all I remember of it.

Speaking of sleep paralysis, it's a weird but actually fairly common state, and is credited with having caused many people to believe in ghosts.
Marty
 
The only wierd dream I recall with a gun was a few years back ... I was at some strange out-door gunshow (tents set up, eetc) walking around. I had a 1928A1 Thompson with a shoulder strap carrying it muzzle-down on my back through the place. For some reason ... it caused a bit of consternation. Don't know why -- everyone else there was armed, too!:D
 
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the wierdest one I ever had was where i knew that people were around the house, so I grabbed a rifle. Then i looked out of the window and saw a truck behind my house, but it was flipped over. Then i looked out again and it was gone, but a tree was on fire. Then one of the guys got in the house. He kept popping his head around the corner saying "lawsuit" every time he popped out. I woke up right as I pulled the trigger.

:uhoh: :uhoh: Im kinda wierd I guess
 
I have a recurring problem with guns in my dreams as well. Mine always go bang without difficulty, but the bullet comes out of the barrel at 10fps and only travels three or four feet before falling to the ground.

Arrgh!
 
I had a disturbing dream last night just as I was falling asleep (like within seconds). I heard what sounded like a very distict .45ACP pop at the house behind mine. I sat up and asked my gf if she heard it.
"Hear what?"
"That sounded like a gunshot"
"I didn't hear anything. It must have been a dream" (she was still awake) "You've been watching 24 too much :p "
Nothing like gunfire (even if imagined) to wake you up.

I've noticed if you shoot a lot, those dreams where the guns don't fire, have impossible triggers, or the bad guys don't go down seem to come less frequent and guns work in the dreams (at least for me). Go blast off 200 rounds a week and see if it changes. Maybe you'll even get some bottomless magazines like in the movies as a bonus :evil:
 
Bah. Guns in my dreams are never what they seem. Even when I don't need them, they never work. Like I'll be out walking and come across a beautiful 1911. Just laying there, (Hehe, mine now! Good dream, suddenly. . .) I'll pick it up, drop the mag and rack the slide (safety first, even in dreams,) and pocket it to take it home. I get to a more secluded environment to further inspect my new prize, and pull a cheap water pistol out of my pocket :confused: :mad: Talk about disappointment.

Variations on this theme include finding or otherwise acquiring a lightsaber (come on; everyone wants a lightsaber;) ) I'll pick it up and turn it on, and it'll sprout a dazzling blade of bright green rubber. Blasted thing wouldn't cut soft cheese, let alone durasteel hull plate. Total buzz kill. . .
 
Years ago, I had a couple of dreams where I used a shotgun or a knife in a self defense situation. I remember waking up right afterwards, and the dreams were very vivid. In the shotgun dream I shot several times, it was with a Mossberg bolt action 12 gauge my father gave me, and the bad guy went down. I can't remember if I heard the 'boom' or not, but I remember feeling the recoil and racking the bolt. In the knife dream, the knife was a big butcher knife style skinning knife that I threw and stuck in the bad guy. These happened about 30 years ago (I'm 53 now).

The most memorable happened more recently though. Every now and then my wife will have a bad dream and talk very loudly, and suddenly, in the middle of the night. Sometimes it's a few sentences and other times nothing more than a sudden loud unintelligible scream. Let me tell you, about 3 AM that really gets your attention. Well one night she must have had a really bad dream, because suddenly I'm hearing "Shoot him, shoot him, shooooooot himmmmmm!" To make it even worse, she's sitting upright in bed while she's screaming. So of course I'm reaching for the nightstand and wondering if she's awake or not. After about 15 seconds, she lays back down and goes back to sleep. Next morning she didn't remember a thing, but I sure did.
 
i can't say i've had any gun dreams but I have a friend who used to have a recurring one. He would pull the trigger and the gun would fire but the bullet would barely make it out of the barrel and just drop straight to the floor.
 
open carry in chicago dream

last week for some reason. i had a dream where i was open carrying in chicago. had a cop that kepted following me around. i stopped and asked him why he was following me. he said to make sure my pistol wasnt loaded. i remember looking at it. and sure enough the magazine wasnt in it.

so i could open carry a unloaded handgun in chicago.
 
I've had dreams where I absolutely could not pull the trigger on a gun. It just weighed too much, like 100 pounds or something. I'd wedge three fingers onto the trigger, brace the gun butt against something, and still no luck. In other dreams, the ammo I'd fired would only lightly sting my opponent and he'd become even more vicious. In still other dreams, I'd be trying to drive a car and either couldn't reach the gas pedal, couldn't press the pedal, or the car was woefully slow.

I've heard an explanation for these somewhere. I'm pretty sure it was in an article by Massad Ayoob; one where he interviews a police officer who's been in a shooting. It seems the subconscious harbors certain fears, one of which is inadequacy. Your brain thinks that at the moment of truth, you couldn't really pull the trigger. Or your tools would be insufficient, such as ammo that had no effect, or a gun that jammed hopelessly. In the Ayoob's interview, the officer said that before his shooting, he'd have a dream like this occasionally. But after winning a shootout, that dream completely went away.

Short of volunteering for a real gunfight, maybe a solution can be found in increased live fire training, or better yet, force-on-force scenarios.
 
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