Dreams about guns
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ZeSpectre
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Had some terrible nightmares for several nights about someone stealing my guns after I got this beautiful Spanish SxS a while back. That had never happened before.
Also I've been reading this book "Wold War Z" by Max Brooks, son of Mel Brooks (fun Halloween reading by the way) and last night, of course, I have a "hero defending the world from the Zombies" kind of dream.
Of course if I could remember more of the dream it would probably have made a great Hollywood movie.
Also I've been reading this book "Wold War Z" by Max Brooks, son of Mel Brooks (fun Halloween reading by the way) and last night, of course, I have a "hero defending the world from the Zombies" kind of dream.
Of course if I could remember more of the dream it would probably have made a great Hollywood movie.
That reminds me, I did have nightmares for a few nights that the person who stole my guns (knew who it was but couldn't prove it) was trying the locks or already in my home and I had to shoot him. Really creepy, woke up sweating for a few nights after that.
michaelbane
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What a coincidence...
...that you started this thread. Just last night I had a nightmare. In the dream, my brother was in a boating accident (my brother has no interest in boating whatsoever, so I don't understand where that came from). A federal agent investigating the incident forced his way into my house without probable cause or a warrant and pointed his Glock at my family.
...that you started this thread. Just last night I had a nightmare. In the dream, my brother was in a boating accident (my brother has no interest in boating whatsoever, so I don't understand where that came from). A federal agent investigating the incident forced his way into my house without probable cause or a warrant and pointed his Glock at my family.
Pity me, for every time I find myself holding a handgun, I realise I am dreaming.
Declaration Day
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I occasionally have dreams that involve my firearms. They usually fall into one of the two scenarios:
1) I need to use them and I either can't find any ammo, or I have several calibers handy, none of which are for any of my guns.
2) Somebody has stolen my firearms, and I wander around looking for them. Sometimes the search leads me to other countries
1) I need to use them and I either can't find any ammo, or I have several calibers handy, none of which are for any of my guns.
2) Somebody has stolen my firearms, and I wander around looking for them. Sometimes the search leads me to other countries
DoubleTapDrew
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Usually when I have a nightmare where I have to shoot, the gun will fire but recoils like a 22 short and is as loud as a cap gun, then after I go clear the rest of wherever I am and come back, the body is gone (like he got up).
I guess that's better than the dreams I used to have where I couldn't find guns or ammo or they wouldn't go bang. Maybe it's because I'm shooting more
I guess that's better than the dreams I used to have where I couldn't find guns or ammo or they wouldn't go bang. Maybe it's because I'm shooting more
After every training class I have ever taken, and fairly often after assisting with scenario-based classes, I have had nightmares. It is just the unconscious mind's way of processing the learning that you've experienced. For me, it is also somewhat a reaction to adrenalin production during the day.
Because of those dreams, I've done a little bit of research & paying attention, and have learned a few things.
First, a lot of people have dreams/nightmares when they first begin carrying a gun, or when they first begin considering concealed carry. Others have such dreams after a worrisome incident, even if nothing much actually happened and the situation resolved itself without much fuss. Again, this is the unconscious mind's way of processing new information, and of working through some emotions that your conscious mind might not be aware of. So -- it's normal to have this kind of dream.
I think the commonly-recurring "gun doesn't fire" dream has two basic causes. First, it's a reflection of your fear that you're not really ready to encounter a criminal. To that extent, it can be resolved simply by getting a little more training and doing some conscious and realistic thinking about your actual level of preparedness. Second, I think that a lot of times it's simply that your brain, having served up the fantasy of needing to fire a shot, kind of pauses and expects auditory feedback. When the 'bang' noise doesn't come from the outside, your brain fills in a reason for the missing sound. So there may not be any underlying unconscious worry -- it might just be the way your sleeping brain is wired.
One thing that has really helped me with unpleasant dreams is to sit down and "replay" the nightmare in my mind's eye, changing the ending to a more satisfying or more appropriate one. For example, if the dream ended with me freezing instead of fighting back, I close my eyes, visualize the scene again, and then picture myself doing what I need to do in order to prevail -- including the BG running away or falling. If I had a dream where the gun did not fire, I visualize the scene again, but picture the shot firing and hitting exactly where I intended to hit.
This kind of visualization really works both to erase the sting of the nightmare, and to reprogram your mind to fight & win. These days, my nightmares are much less fear-based, and more anger-based (eg, I fight rather than freeze or flee). They still aren't much fun to wake up from, but I know my mind has processed what it needed to process and that I am in a better place to fight back if I need to do it.
HTH!~
pax
Because of those dreams, I've done a little bit of research & paying attention, and have learned a few things.
First, a lot of people have dreams/nightmares when they first begin carrying a gun, or when they first begin considering concealed carry. Others have such dreams after a worrisome incident, even if nothing much actually happened and the situation resolved itself without much fuss. Again, this is the unconscious mind's way of processing new information, and of working through some emotions that your conscious mind might not be aware of. So -- it's normal to have this kind of dream.
I think the commonly-recurring "gun doesn't fire" dream has two basic causes. First, it's a reflection of your fear that you're not really ready to encounter a criminal. To that extent, it can be resolved simply by getting a little more training and doing some conscious and realistic thinking about your actual level of preparedness. Second, I think that a lot of times it's simply that your brain, having served up the fantasy of needing to fire a shot, kind of pauses and expects auditory feedback. When the 'bang' noise doesn't come from the outside, your brain fills in a reason for the missing sound. So there may not be any underlying unconscious worry -- it might just be the way your sleeping brain is wired.
One thing that has really helped me with unpleasant dreams is to sit down and "replay" the nightmare in my mind's eye, changing the ending to a more satisfying or more appropriate one. For example, if the dream ended with me freezing instead of fighting back, I close my eyes, visualize the scene again, and then picture myself doing what I need to do in order to prevail -- including the BG running away or falling. If I had a dream where the gun did not fire, I visualize the scene again, but picture the shot firing and hitting exactly where I intended to hit.
This kind of visualization really works both to erase the sting of the nightmare, and to reprogram your mind to fight & win. These days, my nightmares are much less fear-based, and more anger-based (eg, I fight rather than freeze or flee). They still aren't much fun to wake up from, but I know my mind has processed what it needed to process and that I am in a better place to fight back if I need to do it.
HTH!~
pax
You are right on. I've had these 2 same dreams last night.
1. I'm in my apartment and 2 badguys come storming in. I have my Rem 870 and start shooting at them. They are still coming at me and are not fazed. I realize that I'm shooting blanks. Then one guy comes right on top of me and I find out that it's my childhood buddy that I haven't seen in a long time. he then says "surprise"
2. I'm at the range and leave to go do something. I come back and realize that all my guns are gone. Somebody has stolen them.
As a kid and a teen I always had a re occuring dream of some Freedy Kruger type of guy slowly coming toward me, and I'm holding a revolver that I cannot pull the trigger because its stuck. Freddy would lunge and I would wake up. I had the dream again about a month ago, and this time I dropped the revolver and reached around my back for my Glock 26, AND IT WORKED FINE
It's got to mean something
It's got to mean something
0din
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I started carrying in 1988, and ever since then I've had a recurring dream. It doesn't happen often, sometimes I go years without having it, but it's always the same situation. I'm about to be killed, I need to shoot, but the trigger is stuck and too hard to pull.
RevoPsych
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Wow, as a mental health professional I could spend weeks on these dreams.
romma
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Dreams of gunfights... In them, sometimes I win,sometimes I get killed. Oh, btw, it is not true that when you die in your dreams, you die for real and don't wake up...
Fu-man Shoe
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Whenever I am in a dream and I reach for a gun, it always turns out
to be a junky old STEN copy that "just happened" to be lying around.
This has happened several times. I don't know why I can't dream up
any *good* guns!
to be a junky old STEN copy that "just happened" to be lying around.
This has happened several times. I don't know why I can't dream up
any *good* guns!
Tommygunn
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The only dream I remember about guns is one where I attended a sort of "out door market/ gun show/ what ???' and was carrying a slinged 1928A1 Thompson SMG over my shoulder. For some odd reason a number of people were trying to chase me and take it away.
The dream made absolutly no sense at all, even if those weird pursuers were BATF agents...but even to this day I have to laugh at it.
The dream made absolutly no sense at all, even if those weird pursuers were BATF agents...but even to this day I have to laugh at it.
cloudedice
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I had this one a few weeks ago:
I was a US Soldier during the Korean War, fighting my way through the jungles of Vietnam. As I'm walking through the jungle, I'm ambushed by a group of about 20 Nazi soldiers armed with Uzi's. They're coming at me from all sides, but I'm calm as I pick them off one by one with my bolt-action rifle. At some point I lose the rifle and grab an Uzi. I must say it got a bit easier after that.
I found the mix of anacronisms strange.
I was a US Soldier during the Korean War, fighting my way through the jungles of Vietnam. As I'm walking through the jungle, I'm ambushed by a group of about 20 Nazi soldiers armed with Uzi's. They're coming at me from all sides, but I'm calm as I pick them off one by one with my bolt-action rifle. At some point I lose the rifle and grab an Uzi. I must say it got a bit easier after that.
I found the mix of anacronisms strange.
Geronimo45
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"carrying a slinged 1928A1 Thompson SMG over my shoulder. For some odd reason a number of people were trying to chase me and take it away."
Who wouldn't want to take it away? Did you have a drum or a stick in it?
My gun dreams have the gun always firing without a sound, so I stop shooting to ask myself why. I don't get killed, at least not that I remember...
Who wouldn't want to take it away? Did you have a drum or a stick in it?
My gun dreams have the gun always firing without a sound, so I stop shooting to ask myself why. I don't get killed, at least not that I remember...
Evil Monkey
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Wow, I wish I have some of your dreams. My dreams, or should I say nightmares, are absolutely terrifying and horrific.
Many times after reading about gun laws and anti-gun propaganda, I get dreams of being arrested and in the court room, judge yelling at me, telling me I have no rights and that I'm going to prison for ever. In the jury box there are a bunch of people, men and women, pointing thier fingers and yelling "bad, bad, guns are bad, bad..."
I wake up very angry but happy that it was only a dream, and my rights haven't been taken away. One time I had the same dream but I woke up happy because I broke out of the handcuffs and sprayed the jury box with an AK and 75rd drum!!!! GET SOME!!!! LET THEM ALL MEET THE DEVIL!!!!
I love those happy endings.
Many times after reading about gun laws and anti-gun propaganda, I get dreams of being arrested and in the court room, judge yelling at me, telling me I have no rights and that I'm going to prison for ever. In the jury box there are a bunch of people, men and women, pointing thier fingers and yelling "bad, bad, guns are bad, bad..."
I wake up very angry but happy that it was only a dream, and my rights haven't been taken away. One time I had the same dream but I woke up happy
because I broke out of the handcuffs and sprayed the jury box with an AK and 75rd drum!!!! GET SOME!!!! LET THEM ALL MEET THE DEVIL!!!! I love those happy endings.
Funny that this thread would come up today (or at least I saw it today).
I must have had the ever popular "9mm vs .4(anything with a four in it)" debate in my mind for some unknown reason.
My dream I was firing at the BG's with a 9mm and they kept on coming at me. I fired and fired and fired and the bullets would just go in and nothing.
Then I whipped out a .40 caliber firearm and took head shots which put the BG's down for good.
I don't remember if the pistol was a .40 or a .45 but it worked.
It is a relief now though, I don't have to read anymore 9mm vs .40/.45 threads cause I already know the answer .
I must have had the ever popular "9mm vs .4(anything with a four in it)" debate in my mind for some unknown reason.
My dream I was firing at the BG's with a 9mm and they kept on coming at me. I fired and fired and fired and the bullets would just go in and nothing.
Then I whipped out a .40 caliber firearm and took head shots which put the BG's down for good.
I don't remember if the pistol was a .40 or a .45 but it worked.
It is a relief now though, I don't have to read anymore 9mm vs .40/.45 threads cause I already know the answer
.CodeSlinger
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Dave Grossman addresses the "my gun won't function" dreams in his (outstanding) book On Combat. He proposes that they are usually caused by a fundamental lack of trust in your equipment's reliability...That deep down, your brain is really worried that your gear won't work when it's needed.
Personally, my experiences mirror that sentiment perfectly. I have a large semi-auto that I CCW in the winter, when a coat makes concealment easy. I later purchased a smaller, easier to conceal semi-auto for warm weather CCW. For some reason, the new gun isn't reliable with my practice ammo, it'll FTE with WWB. It feeds my "social" ammo just fine, so I logically don't worry about carrying it, but after any serious practice session with the WWB, I'll have the "gun won't shoot" nightmare. I'll go back to the range and run a hundred rounds of the JHPs through it to re-prove its reliability, and then the dreams go away.
As always, YMMV, but I found it interesting.
Personally, my experiences mirror that sentiment perfectly. I have a large semi-auto that I CCW in the winter, when a coat makes concealment easy. I later purchased a smaller, easier to conceal semi-auto for warm weather CCW. For some reason, the new gun isn't reliable with my practice ammo, it'll FTE with WWB. It feeds my "social" ammo just fine, so I logically don't worry about carrying it, but after any serious practice session with the WWB, I'll have the "gun won't shoot" nightmare. I'll go back to the range and run a hundred rounds of the JHPs through it to re-prove its reliability, and then the dreams go away.
As always, YMMV, but I found it interesting.
DoubleTapDrew
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That's interesting. It makes sense. The more I practice with a given carry gun the less I seem to have those dreams.
All the more reason for me to get an AK! If I start having FTF dreams i'll go burn through 500 rounds or so and get back at the BG in my dreams
All the more reason for me to get an AK! If I start having FTF dreams i'll go burn through 500 rounds or so and get back at the BG in my dreams
Cromlech
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No doubt caused by watching some action films, and reading 'Soldier of Fortune magazine' at Army Cadets, as a young lad (maybe 13 years old), I dreamt about finding a cache of weapons, including some rather sexy auto-grenade launchers. I covered them back up, and told no-one, hoping to keep the stash to myself.
Then I woke up.
Then I woke up.
Glockfan.45
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I recall a firearm dream I had once where some rather ghoulish woman was in my home. I emptied all 8 rounds from my 870 at her and she just kept comming . Woke up in a sweat after that one.
. Woke up in a sweat after that one.- Status
