anyone ever had a self defense dream?

[Brush-Wolf-Lady]

I had a semi vivid one today before awakening and involved open carry and a college campus.


I was wandering around OCing with my XD40 in my shoulder holster ( still OC since it was on the outside of my clothes), and at first was trying to walk to some range were a shooting comp was taking place or something. At first I was embarrassed about my gun being visible to the public but soon realized I was in an OC state and what I was doing was legal, and no one was bothering me about it as it was. Somewhere in there I end up in some art class building on some college campus. There is never an indication of what state I was in wandering about like this- must have been Utah, sometime in the future, or VA Tech for all in heck I know( visitors were allowed to OC there a while back for some VCDL event).

Anyway back to the art building- there was someone there I knew and was friends with and they had some really cool looking little sculptures made of that creative clay or whatever it's called- the stuff that comes in many colors and you bake it to cure it. She had them set on a board next to a stair landing and there was a door nearby as well, that lead to the outside. She had to go do something like go to the bathroom and left me there alone. I was concerned someone might steal her little sculptures or something, so I stood there waiting for her to come back. Well some werido guy and his girlfriend come in the door leading to the outside and they stand there and he is looking at the sculptures and starts acting goofy like he is going to smash them all. I tell him to cut it out nd you better not do that. So he pulls a knife on me and I back down the stairway to retreat saying to him to cut it out, and then pull my XD out and rack the slide ( this is so realisic as I never have a round chambered in my 2 XD's, just a mag in there, but this is at home). He still starts walking towards me and I continue to tell him to stop it and leave, but he still advances so I end up shooting at him like 5 times. He drops the knife and runs away down this side hall with the terrified girlfriend behind him, and for some reason I walk back up the stairs and peek down the hall, like I was trying to see if I hit him or not. There are bullet holes in this inside thick old wooden door behind where he had been standing as he came towards me with the knife. I noted that the hollowpoints looked to be lodged in the door. The girlfriend is standing inside another doorway in this hallway and the crazy guy comes out a door at the end of the short hallway and staggers towards me. I can see I hit him a few times in the chest. He then falls to the floor a few feet from me and is getting back up and I see him pulling some little gun from his waist area, so I just react and shoot him in the head and he just drops. The girlfriend then is trying to lift him up. He was this ugly looking guy too, white guy, skinny, dirty white clothes ( now all bloodstained) and really light colored eyes and hair- he actually looked like an albino.


After this I run back to the stairwell, and students from an art classroom are running out and I yell that I hope someone called 911. Then the cops show up pretty fast and I am clearing the gun and lock back the slide and hand it to them. I notice all this rust on my XD! I ask the cop I hand it to if he could oil it up so it wouldn't continue rusting in some evidence locker LOL. I am never arrested, and it goes to a little later and I am alone with some detective explaining exactly how it all happened right there at the scene.

When I woke up I checked my XD 40 to see if it was rusting.

[DanTheEldest]

For every "realistic" shooting dream I remember, I have four or five where my pistol/rifle either malfunctions, doesn't hit the attacker, the rounds hit but have no effect, or the weapon turns into something really useful like a bar of soap or a bratwurst.

[xdfan80]

That was a good dream!
Ive had some like that, but in mine I cant pull the trigger, its like something is stopping it so it wont fire. Almost like the grip safety on the XD isnt pushed in.
Happens every time

[east_stingray]

Originally Posted by DanTheEldest

For every "realistic" shooting dream I remember, I have four or five where my pistol/rifle either malfunctions, doesn't hit the attacker, the rounds hit but have no effect, or the weapon turns into something really useful like a bar of soap or a bratwurst.

I used to have dreams like this all the time... I would find someone assaulting a family member or the like, but they would only flinch when I shot them and keep coming. That, or the gun wouldn't work like you said.

There's a Freudian school of thought on dreams like this... something about feeling inadequate as the protector of your family. Then again, even most shrinks don't take the guy seriously!

[SgtWKPII]

Originally Posted by DanTheEldest

For every "realistic" shooting dream I remember, I have four or five where my pistol/rifle either malfunctions, doesn't hit the attacker, the rounds hit but have no effect, or the weapon turns into something really useful like a bar of soap or a bratwurst.

OMG I have the same dreams, but mine are always where I pull and my pistol just clicks,

[ichy_trigger]

Originally Posted by SgtWKPII

OMG I have the same dreams, but mine are always where I pull and my pistol just clicks,

No kidding, I have had dreams where the bullets just do nothing when they hit.

[SgtWKPII]

Originally Posted by ichy_trigger

No kidding, I have had dreams where the bullets just do nothing when they hit.

Last week I had a dream I had my xd45 loaded with 9mm rounds, everytime i fired the round casing and all just slid out the end

[Fish609]

I used to have dreams, none involving guns, where I would get into a fight and end up pinning someone down and just punching their face over and over. After a few good hits I would stop and they would just look up at me like my hits didn't even phase them and push me off.

I think that's why I got a gun. I haven't had a dream like that since!!!! Does make me want to go to the gym though lol.

[grahamstein]

I have had dreams like this. When i have them, they are always very realistic, blood splatter, my aim is not always perfect. In the end they either run when i pull the gun, or stick around and usually wind up getting shot, or at least pistol whipped.

I havent had a dream yet where i cant stop the threat.

[AZXD]

Try having someone on your roof firing down into the house. That is the only one I can remember. Then again, I seldom remember any dreams even though statistically they say you have many every night.

If it had been a black helicopter, I could understand. But this was just some guy out to get me.