I get these all the time…I’m under a threat, but can hardly ever get the gun to work. Either the cartidges aren’t the right caliber, the pistol falls apart, the trigger is too hard to pull, or stuff like that. Once I pulled out a .45, but for some reason the grip had been sawed off with a hacksaw, so I couldn’t grasp it right. In several dreams, the guns were made of cheap, transparent plastic, and I was afraid if fired it would explode. One of the few times the gun would fire, the monster was bouncing around so wildly it was hard to hit it, but since it was like a giant inflated illuminated beachball, when I finally hit it the rounds went right through. On the other hand, I was once cutting a guy in half with a laser rifle; the whine from the beam turned out to be the tone from my new alarm clock. Weird.
I have a “fight dream” two or three times a year, and have for at least a decade. But I’m always the victor. I’ve been hurt, even shot, in my dreams but I’ve never had an equipment problem.
I attribute it to the fact that I’ve never owned a 1911, so I’ve never had those kinds of latent anxieties. 
I recall a dream where I was shooting at someone (a bad person deserving of being shot, of course) and the bullet travelled so slowly that they moved out of the way. I was using a Ruger SP101 .357 mag, a gun I have never owned or shot.
It works both ways, though.
I recall a dream where someone was shooting at me from a couple hundred yards away (Remington 700 PSS .308). I watched the bullet come toward me, as when it got close, I merely moved out of the way.
Yes. I have a reoccurring dream/nightmare that I’m being attacked, usually by a group, and my bullets do nothing to the attackers. I then switch to my knife, and I can actually feel the blade entering when I stab the attacker, and even that does nothing. Then I wake up. 
It usually happens when I’m frustrated about something - work, girlfriend, family, etc., and when it happens, it generally comes back every night for about a week, or until the issue is resolved.
I have this recurring dream about once or twice every two weeks or so where someone is breaking into my house and I’m trying to load one of my AR-15 mags and either the bullets don’t go in, fall out the bottom, disappear, or I just can’t pick them up. Then this guy walks in my bedroom and aims a little black revolver at me then I wake up.
I have this dream so often and it freaks me out so much that I started keeping a loaded PMAG (for added security) on top of my safe.
I haven’t had many fighting dreams in a while which is sort of odd since I’ve been spending a lot more time shooting and dry firing over the past 6 months. However, the main problem is I deploy my weapon, whether fictional or realistic, and the gun does not fire or its an underpowered cartridge that makes a puff sound.
This has been a common “problem” in most of my gun fighting dreams as far back as I can remember.
Proven fact of science is that the most common nightmares and reocurring dreams for gun owners is
A: gun doesnt work
B: Bullets dont phase target
However, researchers say people who have actually had the misfortune of shooting someone tend to not have dreams of this type afterwards
I’m no psychiatrist, but I find a common theme among people I know who are really serious about their training, and their fighting training in particular. They tend not to have these kinds of dreams. One might theorize that as you train more and become both more proficient and more confident, your subconscious anxiety lessens and you’re thus not as likely to have nightmares.
I could be completely off base …
its usually as stated above. fighting in the dream is to resolve someting. the more disturbed or out of control i believe things are then a dream of Power shows up.
the more things are good or fine the quicker and easier to sleep and stay asleep. Guess it gives us some kind of answer.
I was told by ‘spiritualists’ that guns are just the desire to control what cannot be controlled. Ok. I just like the cool metal and precision and hitting the target, like a goal reached and satisfying, something achieved.
sounds the same.
I don’t think so. When guns became tools more than toys for me, I had the “50lb trigger pull, can’t hit the bad guy” dream a couple times a year.
I’ve long since replaced that dream with other disconcerting stuff 
Ive had a dream a few times not always exactly the same dream but they were basically similar. I was always trying to protect a loved one and I was using a Glock, the trigger would be super heavy to were I couldnt fire it and if it did fire it wouldnt stop the bad guy but Id usually wake up before anything “bad” happened. I havent had these kind of dreams in a couple years though.
Remember, Neo, there is no spoon.
When I woke up after dreaming of dodging rifle bullets, I was thinking “That was pretty cool.”
You’ve got issues;)
-Just kiddin
I have had similiar dreams to that as well. A lot of times, they say that what you actually dream about and what they actually mean are two different things. So who knows.
I rarely remember my dreams. The ones I remember would qualify as nightmares in terms of content but I am not scared (with two exceptions).
I had a dream the night before last about getting attacked by a cottonmouth. I grab it behind the head and try to shoot it, but my BHP is in Condition 3 so I ask a relative (it was like a family reunion) to rack the slide. When this happens the gun gets jerked around so it’s pointing at a family member and nearly ND’s. I finally manage to shoot the snake, but it bites my hand anyway.
I had a VERY vivid dream a few years back that my parent’s house was being overrun by Viet Cong - really gay, I know but it was dream after all. I managed to stop the attack w/ my 870.
on the technical side, i had a dream where i was topping off an smg magazine w/ the 9mm rounds from my opponent’s pistols. My subconcious must be locked on.
So that’s why my shit always MALFS in my dreams! I’m still haunted by the 1911 platform even though I dumped it for carry almost 7 years ago.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
That’s exactly how my gun dreams are. I am also never able to run in my dreams except in a slow bounding motion, like I’m on the moon.
I almost never remember my dreams. And rarely if ever do I wake up because of a dream. The only dream I can remember having like this, involved a BG climbing the 7th floor balcony of the apartment I shared with a roommate in college. We were and are both CCW carriers. The BG climbs the balcony, opens the slding glass door and walks in. Then he just stands there looking at us out the tops of his eyes, head dropped, shoulders rolled forward. We open up on hm to no effect and he walks out the front door. End of dream. That was probably 10 years ago. I found it very disconcerting at the time.
Coincidently I switched to a .45ACP 1911 shortly there after and have had no dreams of ineffectual caliber or malfunctioning weapons since.
Seriously. Coincidence? I think not.
j/k
-RD62
I’ve had dreams of FTF and a home invasion dream that ended with lead on target…