Dreams about heavy trigger pull?

[cody88]

I've never had those dreams, but maybe it's because I'm an unconverted Saiga owner, and used to horrible triggers [emoji14]

[Creampuff]

I dream of bullets being fired only to fall 3ft in.front of me. Or pull and no fire....must be a fear or insecurity thing...

That's what happens in my dreams. Or sometimes, I chamber the first round but it just won't seat properly.

[steelrain82]

I used to have those type of dream. Even ones where I was punching someone but I might as well as not have even hit him. It had no effect. I always end up getting my *** kicked or getting shot in those dreams. But the other night the gun worked normal and the guy got blasted in his face. First dream like that in a couple of years.

[Jazeronthelaser]

I've had those same dreams. Both the long trigger pull and slow motion ineffective punches. They're frustrating. Funny, I thought I was the only one.

[Brush Guard]

I have similar dreams when using too many blankets and overheat as a result.
Stay cool: nice dreams.

[Sleighter]

I too have had dreams about long trigger pulls. In my dream the guns still go off but I usually have to pull so hard that I totally miss my target or am already hit by the time I get one shot off. Very unpleasant dreams.

I dont have them consistently but more like once every other month but in the end, it always returns. I wish I could give more details of the dream but I have terrible memory of dreams. Nightmares usually stay with me and I guess this would qualify as a nightmare but for whatever reason (maybe my mind is just happy to have a gun in the dream) it doesn't register/store the info like a normal nightmare.

Owning hipoints will do that to you

[CandG]

I dream of bullets being fired only to fall 3ft in.front of me. Or pull and no fire....must be a fear or insecurity thing...

That's funny, in my dreams my bullets are always really slow and weak too. Like no matter how many shots I fire into someone's skull from 2 feet away, it just bounces off and makes them more mad. Oddly enough, when I bought my 10mm that stopped happening in my dreams. It's as if all those "a .45 will bounce off a bear's skull" threads I've read over the years really got to me somehow and made me subconsciously think that it won't work for anything else either. Anyways, there's my solution, buy a gun powerful enough to kill a bad dream bad guy and somehow you'll gain dream confidence... Doesn't translate to the real world quite the same way obviously, as well all know a .45 shot to the head at 2ft would be more than just irritating for the bad guy. I feel equally confident in real life with any caliber, but "dream me" for some reason can't injure squat with anything less than the 2nd or 3rd most powerful handgun load available.

[CandG]

He ended up landing two rounds on me.. One on my left hand and another on my left shoulder.

I've had lots of dreams where I've gotten hand/arm injuries from all sorts of different things... gunshots, animals bites, even a forklift accident one time. All of them have had one thing in common - when I woke up, that arm was "asleep" because I had been laying on it all night. Apparently, as my brain starts to notice my arm going "missing" or numb, it starts inventing wacky scenarios that might have caused it. Try sleeping in a different position.

[SonofWWIIDI]

Sleep paralysis?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Possibly making it feel like the pull is especially heavy.

Oh, and don't sleep with a gun under your pillow.

[TheChief]

I would get dreams like this once or twice a week:

• Long or heavy trigger pull
• Bullets have no force behind them or just fall out of the end of the barrel
• Can't hit the target
• Can't pull the slide back
• Can't hold on to the gun
• Punches or kicks had no impact or I couldn't complete
• Couldn't run or dodge fast enough
• etc.

I look at this as two things, sleep paralysis covers why you can't perform a manual function, but why are you having the dream(s) in the first place?

For me, I hadn't been getting in my range time or training like I should have, had a stressful drive through road rage inducing areas twice a day, and was eating poorly sometime just before bedtime.

I started going back to the range on a regular basis, worked hard on changing my outlook on things, and ate better. I no longer get involved in viewpoint arguments on the threads or call out it the inconsiderate, rude, and stupid responses of the jack-a-muffins who respond on these threads...you know who you are...and the stress levels stay down and I sleep better.

Dreams went away.

[TeddyBallgame]

I watch a lot of Sons of Anarchy, etc. and have been reading Larry Correia's Monster Hunter series so that probably has an effect, but I've had several dreams of late where I need to use a handgun in self defense only to find that the trigger is insanely heavy (I have to use my middle finger and each shot takes several seconds), or that the rounds have little affect on the assailant. Does this happen to anyone else?

i've had dreams where i know someone is breaking in and i can't WAKE UP out of my sleep to stop them...no matter how much i feel like im trying to wake up, jerking around, trying to force myself to WAKE UP, i can't

then, i wake up and realize it was just a dream about not being able to wake up from the dream...i know, weird

still better than the dreams i used to have...like rolling down a hill, or falling off a cliff...those were nerve racking

[Arrieta578]

Life is a dream, and dreams, are only dreams.
--Pedro Calderon de la Barca

So, essentially you are asking for dream interpretation. Writing about dream interpretation --i.e. what does my dream mean?-- goes at least all the way back to the ancient Greeks and I am sure well beyond.

I'm no expert, but dreams are a way of for the unconscious mind to work through things that the conscious mind is dealing with. As an interesting side note, we know that dogs dream too. So what seems to be some king of esoteric and illogical phenomena must be an integral and important part of living.

One thing interesting about dreams is that we dream only what we know, what we experience, or what we imagine. Although it seems contrary to the nature of dreams, we do not seem to have the ability to dream about what we do not know or have not already imagined. In this way dreams seem to be tied to, or working for, our conscious mind.

I think the dream of being in some sort of stressful situation, having to use a firearm, and the firearm not working for a variety of reasons --from a heavy trigger pull, to some kind of malfunction, or to the wrong ammunition-- actually has absolutely nothing to do with your ability to run a firearm or your ability to do what's needed under stress. More often than not, dreams are not about what they seem, but rather about what they symbolize or represent. In this way, "reading" or "making sense of dreams" is much more like literary analysis than it is anything else. Volumes have been written about this and it is not a coincidence that Freud was an avid student of literature.

Here is an example: someone dreams that they are being chased by alligators, but every time the alligators bite them, they reach down release themselves from the alligator's mouth and continue running. The whole process repeats over and over again until the dreamer wakes up.

This is a typical stress dream that has little to do with an actual confrontation with alligators. The fear of alligators may be real, after all alligators are dangerous animals and we would not want to swim with them. But in this typical dream, alligators are symbolic of something else and usually can represent a wide variety of things that someone fears and is causing stress in their everyday life. The solution, or resolution, to these dreams is not to go out and hunt alligators however fun that might be, but rather deal with the things in our everyday lives that are triggering the dreams. That could be stress from a law suit, stress from work, stress from an upcoming exam, etc...

In this way, while more trigger time might be fun and actually indirectly reduce or stop dreams related to firearms malfunctions, the real solution is to identify what is causing the dreams dealing with the inability to run a gun and to identify what it is in our everyday lives that is making us feel impotent --that might be for example one's inability to help a sick loved one, one's inability to do something at work, or one's percieved inability to control your own destiny, get a CCW, provide for one's own safety, or do things correctly in a stressful situation, etc... If the stress that is triggering these dreams is actually related to your own personal safety, then getting better training, obtaining that CCW, having more experience, and spending more time behind the trigger might actually help to reduce the frequency of such dreams. Then again, since the stress is perceived and not necessarily completely rational, it may not. If the stimulus for these dreams is stress from an upcoming competition or event, the dreams may go away once the event is over. However, if the source of these dreams is actually caused by your work environment (such as in the case of a police officer or a soldier), they may only truly go away when you retire --and even then they may persist even after you leave work. Addendum: I still have some stress related dreams and guilt related dreams caused by events that occurred while I was in combat over 20 years ago. Having these dreams every now and then, I believe is normal, and may actually be healthy --despite the fact that I do not enjoy. or like, them.

The hard part is that for each and every person, figuring out what the trigger is that stimulates these dreams is going to be different. In short, you are your best solution to make sense of these dreams and figuring out how to deal with them.

[HighWildFree]

As others have mentioned this is a fairly common dream that I used to have quite frequently myself. But after much range time I now blast away in my dreams. The dream I still have occasionally is about ammo and mags, I'll have ammo for this gun but no mags, or mags and the wrong ammo.

[SoberClurichaun]

I used to box and would have pillow hands dreams LOL. Kinda the same.