The only one I’ve ever had was where the trigger pull was like 100 miles long. I went to pull the trigger and it just kept going back…back..back

I have this one a lot. Glad I'm not alone or crazy like I thought

I have had some pretty epic firefights in my dreams too though, so not always the "1000 lb trigger".

I’ve had the 1000 pound trigger dream and one where whatever I’m shooting just soaks up the rounds like they were nothing.

Have had a mixed bag over my lifetime so far. Usually the gun fires but has no effect on the baddie. Sometimes they drop and I assume die, but there's no blood or gore.

One time I was levitating down a flight of stairs (very cool dream mode) and when I got to the bottom some rando shot me in the face and blew half my head off then everything went black.

Good news is it didn't hurt.

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Originally posted by SFCUSARET:
Back when I was still in the service I had dreams like those. The most common were not being able to find or chamber the right ammo. Frantically searching for proper ammo and seeing the enemy closing in and not being able to shoot back.

1000%

Don’t have it so much in the last decade; but up to late 40s at least a few times a month.

Occasionally I dream that I'm in Africa, on the dream safari of a lifetime, having a splendid time dressed like Stewart Granger in "King Solomon's Mines", and...almost always I'm trampled or gored by an animal that I've failed to stop. Last thoughts are always "maybe I needed a larger caliber".

I've had the dream where I couldn't find my pistol in a shootout, but their bullets ricochet off me and hit each shooter in the head.

Then I finish the rest of them off with an antiproton smasher.

Happened several times in different fields of battle.

You fellas are weird.
Sure hope I don't start having of those dreams you mention!

I cant explain dreams but have experience to share. When I was quite young, I hunted in areas where I rode horses and snow mobiles. For big game, in this area rifles were not allowed. However, all the area was owned by neighboring land owners and occasionally, someone tagged a deer taken by rifle to fill their tag. One morning, light out, I walked across 6 or 700 yard field to get into the forest. At the edge of the field was a low barb wire fence and then light trees before you head into dark, large pines. Standing right in front of me, other side of the fence is a small, near complete albino deer. It looked right at me and I shouldered my .30 30 and levered 4 live rounds out onto the ground before it turned and scooted off. No recoil, no report and no fired rounds. To this day, decades later, I cant be convinced I wasn't shooting that rifle. How weird is that?

I think the 1000 lb trigger thing, like other dreams where you are trying to do something physical (like fist fight, or just move/run) in your dream and is related to a feeling of being conscious but unable to move. It occurs when a person passes between stages of wakefulness and sleep.

I've never had any dreams about a firearm not functioning as expected. I have vapor locked once or twice after short stroking the reset on a P series pistol though. It was very disconcerting.

Very common for both military and LE.

According to a training class I took years back, YOUR version is the most common version.

Another variation is that everything functions but the end result is ineffective.

I have had it (the latter variation) a few times myself. It used to happen a few times a year.

FWIW, since I was in an actual incident a few years ago, I haven't had it since.

But it is a common thing to have. Some say associated with PTSD, although I find it may be the opposite.

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
I had it too early in my career. I think the dream was my brain trying to sort out wether I should kill someone or not..I dunno, I’m not a head shrinker.

After an OIS, I never had that dream again.

I only read the OP, and then this. Me too. Interesting.

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Originally posted by KevinCW:

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
I had it too early in my career. I think the dream was my brain trying to sort out wether I should kill someone or not..I dunno, I’m not a head shrinker.

After an OIS, I never had that dream again.

I only read the OP, and then this. Me too. Interesting.

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/OIS

Edit: Oh. Eleventh one down the list. Never mind.

Ive had that same dream where I can't pull the trigger no matter how hard I try. Interesting to see I'm not the only one having that particular dream

Last night I dreamt that a guy was trying to steal my catalytic converter. That’s just pathetic.

Lets see. I've had dreams with"

- 1000 lb trigger
- ammo dropping out of the magazine well
- trouble loading or finding the right ammo

and a few others. I just chalked it up to them being stress dreams.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
I think it relates to how you feel about potentially killing another human being. Unless you are a stone cold sociopoath you have feelings.

I disagree with that. Completely.

Because one human being kills another in a justified homicide, a lack of “feelings” does not make him or her a “stone cold sociopath”. It makes him or her a survivor. Why does happiness that I survived and a lack of guilt that he didn’t make me a “stone cold sociopath”?

I get the version where shit is about to get real, so I go to my safe and begin to load up but all my ammo isnt in the right place/isn't loaded into mags/can't get the safe to open. I have a weapon, I have *some ammo, but I'm just frantic about getting the rest of it together before it's too late.

Not LEO, military or ever fired a gun at anything other than a target...

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Originally posted by maddy345:
I used to have a similar dream but in mine the gun would fire but was completely ineffective.

I've had these. Like they're blanks or something. Had one very vivid dream were I got hemmed in by a road rager and had to shoot and they took a dozen rounds or more like it was nothing, and just kept coming. Other times, like Jester814, some rather insane and protracted gunfights. Always very graphic, very realistic.

Had one dream twice over a ten year period. It wasn't the common ones listed, but it was every bit as disturbing. I was in the place I was living at one time, and there was a wolf outside. The only thing I had in the apartment was a shotgun and no ammo, and I just kept watching this wolf through the peephole in the one dream, it growling and scratching at the door. The other time I was back in the home I grew up in, and the wolf was outside, but circling the house and looking at me through the glass doors, snarling at me and trying to find a way in. Also a shotgun with no ammo in that one.

I took those to mean that there was something lacking in my home defense preparedness and started keeping loaded long guns handy. Had the dream start a third time, but I vaguely remember chasing after it and killing it. No more wolf dreams.