I was in some public place and some guy was being an a$$ and I confronted him… he eventually left.
I was then just hanging out and I see the guy walking fast through the crowd at me, very angry looking…
I stand up when he is about 10 feet from me and he pulls out a handgun…
I am UNARMED and I turn to run… People start screaming…
I hear a loud BOOM and my body quakes like hit with a sledgehammer… I fall down and the lights go out… I assume I die. No felt pain though… Sorta peaceful, actually…
Pretty crappy dream, heh? It was pretty real and I hope I never have it again…
Makes you think about getting on someones case without being armed…
I have trouble sleeping, and usually wake straight out of a dream. That is why I remember them so well. (Oh you people who sleep well, you don’t know how good you have it!)
I sometimes have “epic” dreams that go on for seeming hours on one storyline. Once I was impersonating a soldier; using forged documents on an Army base I checked out an M-109 SP howitzer and drove it out to a hilltop on a practice artillery range. A helicopter landed nearby, and my compatriots aboard climbed out hauling three cases, while others armed with M-16s fanned out to make a perimiter. Each case held a 155mm tactical nuclear round. The gun was laid and the first round fired; the turret was swung around and the next round rapidly loaded and fired. The first nuke went off as we were loading the last round. I got to pull the lanyard for that one; then we all shook hands, got in the chopper, and flew away.
for many of us who’ve never had a to use a firearm in anger i think it might be a little hard to imagine the same thing that punches neat holes in paper targets at the range can also create mortal wounds in a man. i mean i believe it, but some part of my subconcious is like “wait, what?!”
I have the same dream. I shoot and shoot but the bullets do no good. I have talked to a few other people that say they also have the same type of dream. I also have had dreams where I am in a shooting and everything goes perfect. I think to myself that was easy, I am not even amped up. Then I realize it is a dream.
I used to have the “trigger too difficult to pull” dream. My “gun” dreams now involve (in vivid, terrifying detail) me shooting a bad guy in the house. The gun works, but when they take it off for evidence the semi-auto somehow becomes an illegal full-auto. Sometimes it’s an AR, sometimes it’s an AK. I then dream the whole trial thing, frantically screaming the rifle was a semi-auto. I’m always convicted and sentenced to life (I fear life in prison more than death). The dream ends in several ways, none of them pretty.
Frankly, I’d rather have the “trigger too difficult to pull” dreams, they were far less terrifying.
Mine wasn’t gun related. It was about being in a fight where my opponent just was overpowering me, had me on the ground hands around my throat choking me to death. I was gonna die.
I reached for my knife in my pocket but just couldn’t get it opened…that was all I remembered. I rarely ever remember a dream but when I woke up it just bothered the hell out of me.
After that I knew only a switchblade was what was needed. When I went to work that day I told a buddy about the dream, next day he came in and gave me an old out the front automatic knife. It is a shitty one, kinda loose but I still have it.
This is the reason I like automatic knives and want to get a good microtech…too bad they are so damn illegal to carry.
I have had a few dreams when I shot the person center mass multiple times and it never affected them. Other dreams about fighting and my strikes do not have any affect also.
Hi, I remember reading On Combat by Lt. Col. Grossman. And he had a page or two on the ‘Universal Warrior Dream(nightmare)’. I don’t have the book on me, but if I remember correctly, it is very common for warriors to have a dream where whatever they do( punch someone with no effect, bullets dribble out of the barrel, bullets bounce of bad guys) they can’t win. He says that its the ‘puppy’ brain asking the upper brain( the part we use to think) if we’re ready for combat. The most common cure is to prove to yourself that you’re ready by training/practicing your skill set.
So, try going to the range to practice, or maybe take a course. I highly suggest getting a copy of On Combat and On Killing by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, very good reads talking about the physical and metal aspects of combat. If anyone has the book, could you please post the Universal Warrior Dream, because I think I left some stuff out?
I have nightmares frequently. The more stress I’m under the more frequently they occur (much less over the last few years). For a while I could not go to sleep with a loaded gun in my bedroom because I would wake up holding it but that hasn’t happened in a years.
Take a class? Oh God, no! Then I’d probably be plagued with “missing the gun class” dreams, just like I’m now plagued with “oh no, I haven’t been to that college class all semester! Should I go today? What would be the point? And I can’t remember my wall locker combination anyway”…Or even worse “oh no, I’m back in uniform! But I’ve been out so long!”
About every monthI dream of being in a gun fight. I think I’m in a war shooting at dozens of people but they never seem to be able to get me. I’m never scared and my gun never jams or anything.
I have had both the bullets don’t work scenario and the punches move in slow motion scenario replay themselves with me more times than I can remember. Glad to see that I am not alone.
I’ve carried quality modified 1911’s for 30 years with no malfunctions that couldn’t be attributed to inferior PM (not changing extractors when I should, so I don’t have the MALF concerns, but my dreams are related to hitting the BG in the chest 8 times with .45ACP and he doesn’t even blink.
