I have them fairly often, maybe once a month or so. It usually a scenario where i have to defend myself and Im not usually afraid in the dream but when I go to pull the trigger, it either feels “spongy” or it just wont budge. In some I can get a shot or two off before it starts acting as described above. other times I go to grab my gun only to find out its not on my hip and I have no idea where it is (those dreams are a little scary oddly enough).
Most of the time its the trigger wont work dream. I always feel confident in my gun skills in those dreams but then the gun wont work. Strange.
Honestly Konrad3, I have. And Welcome by the way…
But realistically for me the dreams, or nightmares, were encounters with large game or large animals for that matter. Small ones too, Badger or Beaver… Because I spend more time on the Forest Floor then on Asphalt. I had this Badger, that SOG, after getting chased for like 100’, I had her pelt…
You mentioned “gun jambs”… You’ve heard it before, TRAIN yourself for that.
You mentioned “shots on target but don’t stop the threat” Ya, I Imagine that could happen with a lot of scenarios. “Here Comes the Big Person, You with a .308 Boot Hideout”
“Placement”…
Have a Grip in the Hip, Hideout for later… Perhaps folks might think I’m nuts but I ALWAYS roll a Hideout,
People can give you good and bad advise all day long…
My advise means nothing…
Something that does take a bit of time and experience…
Find a Firearm, or Firearms that your comfortable running, Be and Get Proficient and Confident with your Firearms. It should make you feel better and confident.
Your mentioned “or the trigger just won’t move”… WTF ???
C’mon Konrad, you know your trigger will work just fine, because your take care of your firearms…
Don’t take offence, but get out and shoot more… And if you don’t like your Firearm, get rid of it and get one that you like and can use proficiently…
Honestly Konrad, sounds like your doubting yourself. Look in the mirror… Give your balls a yank, and figure out what is bothering you about Firearms and defending yourself…
AND KONRAD I MEAN NO DISRESPECT!!! Just chatting with you…
The best to your and yours…
I dont’ think it’s necessarily that simple. The too-heavy trigger is a very common report, from all types of people, including those who shoot and train a lot, professionally and proficiently.
Those are useful things to do, but they may not alleviate a fear that even your pistol won’t stop an attacker. The ‘shooting blanks’ or ‘no effect’ dreams might only get accelerated as a person spends more time learning and realizes how ineffective handguns can actually be as stopping immediately…probably a time when believing in Hollywood actually helps you sleep better lol
This reminds me of the incident where a policeman shot a man 14 times before he finally succumbed. You can see the story on YouTube. The criminal wasn’t on drugs but on pure adrenaline. He vowed that day to kill a policeman but thankfully failed when the policeman finally crouched under a car and shot his ankle or lower leg, which finally brought the criminal down. A head shot by the LEO finally ended the threat.
I still remember vividly having a dream where a man with a hunting rifle and scope was about to shoot me from a distance in my backyard. I was on a sofa looking towards him and I could do nothing. It was one of the most horrible feelings I’ve ever experienced. This was back in the early to mid 70s when I was a kid. It was also most likely due to the very popular Dirty Harry movies that I saw. Back then crime was rampant and a very serious issue, and there were many programs on TV about police, detectives and crime. Interestingly, that dream almost came true 2.5 years ago when 3 out of 4 ex~cons tried to do a home invasion. One of them made it to the backyard and I saw his thick green~gloved hands in the air. Unlike the dream though, I had the advantage with my shotgun.
I’ve had some incidents where I should have been attacked while minding my own business. It was a miracle that I wasn’t attacked, especially in Montreal where I had no choice but to walk past 4 racist big guys egging me on with “Did you feel that white boy!” as they punched a newspaper rack. I was thinking about this and other past incidents and trying to find the message behind all of them. Everything happens for a reason and there are always long~term lessons to derive from those incidents.
I recently had a major paradigm shift after getting over the flurona, coof, Wuflu or whatever it’s called. I never got a vaccine and only took vitamins, supplements, and ate healthy food. I actually had worse illnesses and symptoms when I lived in S. Korea, including ones where I thought I was going to eventually die. I’m my mother’s caregiver, so I had to also take care of my father who actually gave us the contagion. He was worse off than my mother and I, and I had to call the paramedics to take him to the emergency room. I ended up picking him up at the emergency room only to have to call the paramedics again to our home after he stopped breathing for a few seconds. We’re now over the worst of it but this experience has many implications. I learned that even in emergency situations, you are pretty much on your own and that you have to move on afterwards no matter how bad the experience was.
I was isolating myself for a long time due to other things as well. I was reconsidering the reasons why I’m a USCCA member because I can’t even conceal carry in my county. It doesn’t make sense to be paying for a service that’s supposed to primarily be for concealed carriers. I had an unhealthy fear of the local government that actually undermines people’s right to bear arms by their illegal schemes. I even went along with their game when I applied and still was denied a permit. I had a perfect record but I wasn’t among the privileged few who are granted a permit (i.e. retired police, fire, judges and VIPs who give the LACS a generous “gift”). I don’t even drink, smoke or participate in “recreational” drugs of any kind. Yet people like me are placed in a position of breaking their illegal mandates or laws while upholding a much greater right which supersedes those illegal mandates\laws. That greater right is guaranteed by GD, natural law and the Constitution. So I’ve made my decision and began carrying outside my home but within the permitter that I’m “allowed” to, which is up to the sidewalk. Many times in life you have to go against popular opinion and do what’s right. I will gradually begin carrying in other areas as well, such as when I hike. More importantly, I will begin taking self~defense gun courses for not only my training but to show good faith just in case anti~2A people want to persecute\prosecute me for having used my gun to defend myself or loved ones. At this point I feel like a kid learning to ride a bicycle. I’m renewing my mind and practicing to look at the glass half full rather than empty. I’m gradually doing everything to where I will feel comfortable enough to carry concealed within my city and eventually everywhere. Overcoming this coof\Wuflu has taught me many valuable lessons. We either become victims because of our mindset and unhealthy fears, or we live a healthy, abundant life that allows us to overcome obstacles and fears.
I can’t say I’ve had dreams like that but I do visualize from time to time what I would do if I was ever in that unfortunate situation. I train occasionally using laser ammo’s video scenario trainer pro scene where a guy is running at me with a knife. It is much harder than people think it is getting shots off in time.
But what people need to plan for and visualize what they would do in that situation in case their gun fails. How would you take on a guy running at you with a knife if your gun jams? First of all you not only have the added stress of resolving the malfunction but you also need to get away from the blade to avoid getting slashed or stabbed.
When I was a young kid I had a bunch of these dreams. Variations of shooting a gun at something dangerous and it having no effect. One involved shooting and spoons coming out and bouncing off the bad guy. Very frustrating trying to stop an attack with spoons! Maybe that’s why I value sufficient penetration over expansion in SD ammo;)
I lived in a safe neighborhood in a good house with a good family. Probably had the usual childhood insecurities of not feeling in control of life and having to follow others direction and trying to fit in etc but didn’t have much to truly be afraid of. My only exposure to firearms was TV and books (fiction and history). So not sure where those dreams came from. Don’t remember ever having any as an adult, either before or after I got into self/family defense.
Still dream about Afghanistan…guess I will till I die.Those dreams are about things that actually happened.The stupid reoccurring dream about going to high school with an article of clothing missing is much worse.
Several years ago I had the most vivid dream of my life. I was walking down a crowded street when suddenly from out of nowhere a gladiator type person arrived. (Now keep that picture in your mind.) This guy WAS HUGE and the ultimate male specimen. No armor (he needed none), a battle axe in one hand and in the other a Conan type broadsword.
What took place upon his appearance was really quite gruesome. With both arms he began an unbridled slaughter of each and every person who had the misfortune of crossing his path. Nothing and nobody slowed him from his pursuit as bodies and parts of bodies fell before him.
At this point I realized that he would eventually make it to me and that no amount of any caliber was likely to stop him before it happened. So I ran. He then took note that I was running and began his pursuit of me! Never failing in his bloodletting as he came after me and the bodies and parts of bodies continued to fall. I had never run so fast and the distance kept closing until he was upon me!
At this point I wake up panting, sweating with heart racing and spent! Get a shower, go to work. One of my least productive days ever. I was genuinely fatigued from a dream! It was so real, so brutal and so vivid I don’t think it will ever leave me.
In the years since I have had dreams about having to defend myself and others as well. Only 2 have been resolved with a firearm and both those were positive outcomes.
I think the first I’ve described here caught me at a time where I was lax at running defensive scenarios through my head. It was a definite wake up call. Someone said if you haven’t thought about these things it will be hard to act if or when it happens. I believe that.
