Weird gun dreams

[samueld308]

I have a recurring dream that freaks me out. I'm a young law enforcement officer. I have dreams where I get shot approaching a vehicle on a routine traffic stop. There are several versions. In one, my gun is welded to my holster. Another is my gun will not fire. Another is my rounds bounce off of everything and the perp's rounds react normally. I really hope these are only dreams.

 

[ForeignDude]

Man, What Timing!

I was going to post today, asking if anybody else had these kinds of dreams.

A couple of nights ago, I dreamt that some guys broke into my house. I had a Glock 19 with me (I shot one for the first time a couple of weeks ago). When I shot the bad guys, nothing happened. In a moment of visual clarity, I could see that the bullets were bouncing off of them, but they were only wearing T-shirts... I kept firing, and they kept coming. My wife was standing right behind me, and we kept stepping back to gain distance, but they just kept coming!

I tell ya -- scared the hell out of me. When I woke up, I remember thinking if maybe I should upgrade to the .45...

 

[Neo-Luddite]

Re-occuring gun dream meaning

Mine is that the pistol is broken down and I have to assemble it first.

Or that it keeps falling apart in my hand.

Once in a while its all gummed up.

Sometimes there are multiple assailants.

Almost always at home. Usually in bed when the problem starts.

I told my doctor about these dreams--he said I could open up about the problem and that Viagra might help. He gave me a pamphlet explaining that, as they've always said, the dream-gun represents my manhood. Perhaps not broken yet, but certainly gummed up and (occasionally) in pieces. So I gave it a try.

Now, when bad guys 'say hello to my little friend' in my dreams, I'm ALWAYS as tuned up and crazy as Al Pacino with the selector on full auto. Thanks, viagra.

 

[ZeSpectre]

I've had dreams like that before. Mine almost always consist of either the gun just falling apart as I pull the trigger, or the gun suddenly turns into silly putty consistency and I can't squeeze the trigger without deforming the whole gun.

Usually my "I'm stressed" dreams involve a car with bad brakes though.

 

[ilove45acp]

My gf is now having dreams involving guns as well. Usually hers seem to involve me shooting some one in defense

+1 for my Wife on that one. She tells me all the time how she had a dream that I shot some BG that was trying to hurt her. I'm her hero, well, at least in her dreams

 

[FieroCDSP]

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.

Sounds like your friend needs to review his reloading QC procedures. His brain thinks he's going to end up with a squib load.

My strangest one was not one of me shooting, but of being shot. Standing in line at some restaurant with a door open to the outside, there's a scream from someone, I turn around, and some punk shoots me in the stomach from the street. In the dream, I felt my stomach go numb, then my shoulder and arm. At that point I realized it was a dream, but was still in it. I remember telling myself that if you die in a dream, you die for real (isn't that what we've always heard). I was finally able to will myself awake shortly after I slumped to the floor in the dream. I was sleeping with my fore-arm under my stomach and both were numb, with my shoulder half asleep.

Creepy.

 

[default]

The only gun that works in my dreams is my AK. Go figure .

That's the best testimonial to the AK's legendary reliability I've heard yet. Forget waking-life mud, sand, grit, corrosion, or poor ammunition. They even work in dreams, where most firearms would dissolve, shrink, or turn into a winged rabbit and fly away. That's Russian engineering for you!

 

[stevekl]

Sounds like that time I had to kill some Germans with a STEN gun but the trigger pull was so hard that it actually woke me up.

 

[ARperson]

.45s didn't help my dreams

tell ya -- scared the hell out of me. When I woke up, I remember thinking if maybe I should upgrade to the .45...

ARperson hubby here,

Well I can tell you that I have similar dreams with bullets bouncing off of bad guys. I using a Colt SAA and those big .45 caliber slugs arced over to them, bounced off, and fell to the floor.

Scared me too. In my dreams like that, guns have always worked, bullets have always failed to penetrate.

 

[Tokugawa]

Remember the movie mad max? the scene where he is in deep doo doo and he has but a few old corroded shotgun shells left?

 

[benelli12]

Those kind of dreams happened to me a few years ago, but it involved me using my 870 12 gauge.
The first dream was that somebody was in my room and I shot him with all 7 shots, and they all just left little tiny holes, and He kept coming, and then I woke up.
The second and following dreams the holes just kept getting bigger when I shot the intruder, and finally by the 4th or 5th dream, He died on the first shot.

All of these were really weird, and ever since I killed him in my dream, he hasn't came back

 

[Autolite]

Weird gun dreams are common. I recently had a strange dream that caused me to reflect on my ability to assess a situation. There was some sort of gunfight going on in a parking garage. I was with some family members and I was trying to get them out of the garage ASAP. I had my 870 with me and I managed to get everyone behind me, backing out on our way to an exit. As I rounded a corner, there is this dude wearing a vest who grabs the muzzle of my 870. I couldn't decide whether to shoot or not. The guy in the vest has a Beretta HG in his left hand but he has it pointed away and off to his left. I couldn't determine whether he was a good guy or a bad guy. At that point I racked the slide and asked him if he "really wanted to die". He didn't say anything, but he let go of the muzzle and I woke up. What bothered me when I awoke was whether or not I would hesitate like that in real life ...

 

[Trope]

A while back, I was having the recurring dream with the "impossible to pull" trigger. I could squeeze it and squeeze it, but it wouldn't fire. I had this several times.

I had not made this connection until just now, but around the same time, I was having trouble with a flinch when shooting. I had hit a plateau and was having trouble working through it. For whatever reason, there was a point where the flinch just disappeared, and I don't remember having that particular dream since.

 

[Axman]

Or that it keeps falling apart in my hand.

LORCIN, the gun of your dreams!

Interesting enough the same stuff happens in my dreams. I recall one where I'm in a car chase with some BG's behind chasing me. I stopped the car in a position to use it as a cover for gunfire. I opened the door and rolled out onto the ground. I had my 9mm and pulled the slide back to check the chamber. It was loaded so I lifted my head over the hood to see th BG's car stopped and they fired. I ducked to avoid the bullets and when they stopped iring, I came up over the hood with the 9 mm ready to fire. I squeezed the trigger and when the gun fired it just made a "poof" noise and the bullets just sort of "spit" out the end and bounced off the attacker's car. It would have been more effective to throw the cartridges at them.

The second dream was at a beach and being chased on foot by a giant who was 30 feet tall and looked an awful lot like a former co-worker. Same thing, the 9 mm "poofed" and the bullets "spit" and just bounced off him.

 

[usmccpl]

For a while I had a dream of indestructable bad guys. I unloaded eight different guns, stabbed them, clubbed them and they kept coming. Then I would run them over with a Ford pick up and park a tire on their chest. and walk away. I would look back and see the truck flying at me then I wake up.

 

[ogivemeplat]

Real vs Dream Guns

Oh yes, the old "can't pull the trigger" dream.
Had that one numerous times.
Also had quite a few where the G19 worked just fine.
Remember one where I'd made the decision to shoot someone
who was following me. He was a threat and I was tired of trying to evade him,
so I shot him and he died. Much better than the "hard trigger" ones.
Or the "stuck in holster" ones, had those too.
Might be something in what other poster said about needing more range time to dispel, since I haven't had much recently.

At least most have done better than my buddy, who used his G23 to shoot the BG in his dream. I told him that one needs to use a dream gun to kill a nightmare!
CorBon 135's are rough on furniture

Wierdest one I ever did was confuse my cocked and locked .45, under the pillow adjacent to my head, for my alarm clock.
In the fuzzy state of more asleep than awake, I was convinced that it was the alarm clock.
Grabbed it, snicked off the safety. When that didn't have the desired result, I pinch gripped the hammer with the fingers of my opposite hand, and pulled the trigger. This lowered the hammer.
When the alarm continued to sound, it slowly dawned on me that there was a good likelyhood that what I was holding was not it!

 

[skinnyguy]

I very rarely remember my dreams, but when I do, there is usually a personal meaning behind them, and until I figure out just what the meaning is, they bother the h*ll out of me. This is one such dream, I remember it very clearly, but it doesn't bother me anymore.

A number of years ago, my then-wife bought me a Savage .30-06 for Christmas. About a year or so later, I had a dream that the gun discharged while I was holding it without anyone or anything having touched the trigger. The bullet hit my 3-year old in the temple and exited the opposite temple with little expansion, and no blood. The wound looked exactly like one that a mule-deer that my step-dad had shot in the neck the previous year. She walked over to me over to me, smiled and said, "I love you daddy" and gave me a big hug, with this fatal hole in her head.

I woke up all freaked out, told my wife about it, she freaked, but didn't show it. I de-bolted the -06, and locked it up tight. About 2 weeks later, after examining the dream a thousand ways, logical and illogically, it hit me. No matter what I do, my little girl is going to love me. That's when it quit bothering me.

Today, my little girl is 17 and moved in with me last year from her mother's house. And she loves me, no matter what I do, including a period of time where I seen her once over a period of 8 years.

Happy ending to a FUBAR dream huh?

 

[2TransAms]

I've heard it explained that these dreams are not showing our inadequacy,but revelations of our fears. Most of us believe that we ourselves can handle whatever comes our way in the form of bad guys so that doesn't manifest in our dreams because, men being what they are,we don't believe that we will choke when the time comes. Your brain doesn't recognize the possibility that you won't get the job done...probably because you spend too much time on THR and watching 24.

But even if you are doing your part, equipment failure (even bizarre failures like bullets going 10 fps and slides that take all our might to rack and buckshot that doesn't hurt anybody) would throw a huge wrench in the plans and leave us unable to protect our loved ones and that fear can be overblown in your dreams,where the physical world isn't keeping your imagination in check.

The sleep paralysis concept is new to me,but sounds very plausible. Sometimes in a critical moment in my dreams my eyes will slam shut and I can't open them for anything.

But what do I know, I'm just a carpenter. My sister-in-law took some psychology classes in college and told me all this. Who knows...men have been trying to figure out dreams since God put us here. I doubt we're on the verge of a break-through now.

 

[Mauserguy]

I normally don't have dreams, but after I first got married I had an unusual dream. I dreamt that we were in bed, late at night, and an intruder broke in. He entered our bedroom, so I jumped out of be, grabbed my Mosin-Nagant M44, and beat him with it. I don't know why I just didn't shoot him. At the end of the dream I had to tell my boss at work why I was late at the office. "Well, last night I nearly killed a burglar and the police wanted to talk to me." I realized later that it was about responsibility and protecting my family and company. Weird....
Mauserguy

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

The sleep paralysis concept is new to me,but sounds very plausible.

By far the scariest dreams I've had are "waking dreams". I don't know if anybody else on the board has experienced them but they are awful.

Basically your body wakes up, but your mind is still partly dreaming. The problem is you still have sleep paralysis. So I wake up, know i'm laying in my bed (partly awake), I hear stuff going on in my house or in my room (brain still dreaming), but I can barely move (sleep paralysis)

I've had those, trying for the life of me to get the energy to move my hand to my pistol or grab something to get my body to wake up because it sounds like bad people are talking and things are happening in the room. Usually I either succeed in waking myself up or I fall the rest of the way asleep. I don't have them very often but they SUCK!
Some people think those are the cause of those alien-abduction stories (can't move, strangs things going on around you). Fortunately for me there has been no probing

 

[chipp]

heres your answers

A dream like that usually means your haveing another conflict in your life that you are struggling with and can't seam to win. If you figure out what it is and resolve that conlict your dream should change or end.
That'll be 150 bucks if it keeps happening we can make another appointment.
But seriously I used to have dreams where I couldn't win fights (or lose)
many different ones with guns not working dreams and such. someone told me this and i figured out the conflict.
Then i had a dream that gang members stole my motrorcycle and dis assembled it. I had one around the neck and my gun to his head trying to find the rest of my bike . Another gang member popped up from inside a car and I shot him in the head.his head exploded, blood and everything! It was better than a movie.
Okay so I still have issues but losing in dreams isn't one of them

 

[Daemon688]

Dream interpretations are far too freudian for my liking, but yes I've had gun dreams. Usually they involve me shooting zombies with no effect. The gun works but they never drop. Last night though, I had a dream that I got hired at a local gunshop. As soon as I walk out of the office as a hired employee the gun store became a furniture store. Go figure.

 

[razorburn]

I also had the ones where I'd shoot the guy, and then he just wouldn't die. It doesn't bounce off, I don't see the bullet, but it just doesn't put them down permanently. Maybe I kill 1 or 2 guys, and then the gun just doesn't kill people anymore. They don't die when they get shot. But then I always realize when I'm dreaming because it doesn't make sense. And when I'm dreaming, I can't die. I can get shot, and it kind of feels funny, like sort of hurt. But I don't die. I usually just go and walk out without caring whether they shoot me or cut me, and just walk up and kill them barehanded.

 

[gabeusmc]

Nut Cases

I am glad to know that I am not the only one borderline insane . I usually shoot people in my dreams and they dont die.

I had this one not to long ago, I was hired to kill one of my Staff NCO. An officer had hired me, well I was driving the SNCO and he was visably nervous telling me someone was going to kill him and so on. I didnt respond to anything he said, I just kept driving. I decided it was time to finally do and I turned to him, pulled out the Berretta, and shot him in the head twice. He looked at me and said. *** I thought you were going to help me. At this time I had quite the predicament. I was wondering if I should shoot him again or just ignore him and keep driving. Then I woke up.

Thats just one of many.

 

[BigO01]

Only gun dream I remember I was in the old west and had a two story building on the outskirts of a town that only had maybe 5 buildings and a bunch of Indian Tepees just outside of town .

A killer Grizzly was running around and all the braves went to kill it and they left me to protect the town , women , kids and old people with my guns .

Bear came around and was about to enter a Tepee so I started shooting it with a Lever action rifle and ran out of bullets as it began to charge me , ran into the two story where my family was and had them going up stairs with me behind them with a HUGE single action revolver in my hands . Bear follows up the stairs and opens his mouth and growls and I stick the revolver in his mouth and thumb back the hammer as I do so the cylinder falls out !

I think I am very glad I woke up just at that moment !

Oddly I am not into single action sixguns , hadn't been watching any horror or western movies or doing any reading on Bears or Bear hunting .

No idea why that dream manifested itself and has never reoccurred .