Strange dream parallels...

steveinaz
steveinaz Posts: 19,538
edited April 2008 in The Clubhouse
From a post in the GlockTalk forum I frequent; I found this fascinating.

How many of you have had one (or both) of the following occur in your dreams:

Scenario 1:
In your dream, you have a gun that will not fire, jams, or when it does fire the bullet just falls out of barrel, and/or has no effect on the bad guy.

Scenario 2:
I call this the "naked in the classroom" dream--ever had this one? I also have a variant on this dream where I'm naked in the grocery store.

I was amazed how many people have these same dreams, and how similar they are to what others experience.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited April 2008
    I have a reoccuring variation of dream snenario #1. But instead of a gun, I'm trying to shoot the undead with my finger with no effect. Odd.
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited April 2008
    I have had both.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited April 2008
    I have a variant of the number 1 dream all the time, but without the gun. Just in a fight or something and trying to punch someone and it having no effect. Which is probably close to what would happen in reality, I guess :)
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited April 2008
    Wanna go shopping Darla?

    The only recur that I ever have is horrible. I'm alone in the tanker, driving, and it's getting so bad I can hear and feel the trees/branches and **** scraping along the bottom of the airplane. Then I wake up, scared ****.
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited April 2008
    George Grand wrote: »
    Wanna go shopping Darla?

    The only recur that I ever have is horrible. I'm alone in the tanker, driving, and it's getting so bad I can hear and feel the trees/branches and **** scraping along the bottom of the airplane. Then I wake up, scared ****.

    :confused:Blonde. Over my head.

    That is a scary dream George. Mine is usually the gun thing. The gun won't fire or it fires late. I have been naked in school a few times too.:p
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited April 2008
    I was hoping my non-firing gun wasn't some sort of sexual heads-up, ya know, being 46 and all....could be worse I guess, what if my guns fired prematurely? :eek: :D
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited April 2008
    I have recurring dreams of being in a bar and chatting up a bartender or waitress while I'm folding laundry. What does that mean?
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited April 2008
    +1 on both dream versions.

    I had a friend I was on the sheriff's reserves with who went through an entire domestic stand-off and then realized he had forgot to put the magazine in the tactical rifle and chamber a round. The training was a little lax for us volunteers :o
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited April 2008
    Jstas wrote: »
    I have recurring dreams of being in a bar and chatting up a bartender or waitress while I'm folding laundry. What does that mean?

    Dr. Steve's analysis:

    You generally are a somewhat picky person, everything has it's place--organized. Your a man of carefully planned "method," not trial-and-error. Right now your life is together, satisfying, and thankfully uneventful. You're a creature of habit, and somewhat of a loner--but not extremely so. You are secure with yourself, and place in life. This is clearly demonstrated by the fact that you are folding "clean" laundry--not airing out dirty laundry at the bar.

    Did I pretty much nail it?
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited April 2008
    I suggest you try Viagra for your first "scenario" and install a floor length mirror on your front door for the other "scenario".
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited April 2008
    If it wasn't for the extensive use of thin drywall in the house, i'd try the blue pill. I wonder if my dream would change from non-working gun, to beating people to death with my ****, that would be cool.
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  • MrNightly
    MrNightly Posts: 3,370
    edited April 2008
    Everytime I have that non-firing gun dream, I would go to the range and fire off a few hundred rounds. It would put the dreams to rest for quite a while.

    The naked one? I have no idea, but I always enjoy them when they come... hehehe...
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited April 2008
    steveinaz wrote: »
    From a post in the GlockTalk forum I frequent; I found this fascinating.

    How many of you have had one (or both) of the following occur in your dreams:

    Scenario 1:
    In your dream, you have a gun that will not fire, jams, or when it does fire the bullet just falls out of barrel, and/or has no effect on the bad guy.

    Scenario 2:
    I call this the "naked in the classroom" dream--ever had this one? I also have a variant on this dream where I'm naked in the grocery store.

    I was amazed how many people have these same dreams, and how similar they are to what others experience.

    #1. Hell no....I custom load EVERY defense round myself on my Redding single stage press....and have shot thousands of them...all flawless. I have never even once had a failure using my multi-stage dillon press that I use for mass quantities of target/plinking ammo ( Basically .45 auto by the thousands for myself...my favorite plinker....and a lot of 9mm for friends ....some of them like that little girl round ;) )

    Also, in thousands and thousands of rounds of factory ammo.....I have only had one batch of ammo that was faulty. I bought 1,000 rounds of .44 mag ammo from Midway ....IMI ( ISRAEL MILITARY INDUSTRIES ) 240gr jhp's ....after 2 squib loads ( Had to remove the bullets out of my Super Redhawks barrel by hand :mad: ) I pulled the bullets from a box of 50.

    There was NO consistency in the powder charges...it ranged up and down the scale...but that was the only time I had ever seen center fire factory ammo screwed up like that.

    I also shoot every firearm enough to know it cycles flawlessly...I have gotten rid of ones that dont.

    So no, I cant say I have ever experienced number 1.



    #2. Gotta be a no to that one too...been naked in public before, just never woke up doing it ...or had done it involuntarily :)
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited April 2008
    shadowofnight wrote: »
    There was NO consistency in the powder charges...it ranged up and down the scale...but that was the only time I had ever seen center fire factory ammo screwed up like that.

    Thanks for the heads-up--guess I won't be using any of that in my Bisley Hunter.
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited April 2008
    Zero wrote: »
    I have this re-occurring nightmare where I'm at this party, and some heavy set **** chick decides to try 'the other side' by trapping me into a corner and sticking her tongue down my throat...

    Oh wait, that **** really did happen! *cries*

    I need a hug!


    Haha...heavy set I could handle.....you would have to throw in butt ugly to make it a nightmare :D
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited April 2008
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Dr. Steve's analysis:

    You generally are a somewhat picky person, everything has it's place--organized. Your a man of carefully planned "method," not trial-and-error. Right now your life is together, satisfying, and thankfully uneventful. You're a creature of habit, and somewhat of a loner--but not extremely so. You are secure with yourself, and place in life. This is clearly demonstrated by the fact that you are folding "clean" laundry--not airing out dirty laundry at the bar.

    Did I pretty much nail it?

    Where the hell did you find that?
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited April 2008
    That's all me baby. I'm good with people. BTW, that's actually based on what I observe in your personality--nothing to do with the dream--but it fit well.

    You strike me as a person who likes things neat and tidy, efficient; I would also guess that you don't care for fiction literature, but prefer factual, documentary, tangible type stuff. I'd further guess that though you do well in social situations, you're quite content doing things alone as well. The fact that you mention folding laundry (typically associated as a woman's chore) in a non-chalant manner would indicate that you are very secure with yourself.

    That will be $9.95 paypal is fine.:D
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited April 2008
    shadowofnight wrote: »
    Haha...heavy set I could handle.....you would have to throw in butt ugly to make it a nightmare :D

    ROTFLMAO!!! Could a been a heavy-set dude...:eek:
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,085
    edited April 2008
    wingnut4772 wrote: »
    :confused:Blonde. Over my head.

    I have been naked in school a few times too.:p

    Could you hum a few bars of that one? :D

    I have the one where I'm trying to run but can't seem to go anywhere. Wait, that's real.

    Then there is the one where I'm in the grocery store in just my drawers. Uh, nope, did that last weekend. Can't shop at Publix anymore either.

    Damn. Your dreams are equivalent to my reality.

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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited April 2008
    Blonde. Over my head.

    There's a joke in there, somewhere. :D
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited April 2008
    I'm never naked in my dreams. Nobody else is ever naked in my dreams. My dreams suck.
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  • MrNightly
    MrNightly Posts: 3,370
    edited April 2008
    George Grand wrote: »
    I'm never naked in my dreams. Nobody else is ever naked in my dreams. My dreams suck.

    Yes, yes they do. :D
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  • Mike Kozak
    Mike Kozak Posts: 931
    edited April 2008
    I usually get shot in my dreams, stabbed as well, not too fun
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited April 2008
    I always had this dream as a kid that i had to climb to the top of my swingset because alligators were eating the bottom of it. Eventually they ate so much i was no longer high in the air and the alligators ate me. :(

    I occasionally have the gun dream but it's more along the lines of I can't get to the gun in time before the zombies get me.
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    The naked dreams.....that's a story for a rainy day.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited April 2008
    Mark, in your case it's more likely you can't get to the gun because Massachusetts took it away from you.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • sabotg
    sabotg Posts: 126
    edited April 2008
    I have a recurring dream where I'm driving totally s**t faced. I try so hard to keep on the road and not crash into anything but I keep passing out and waking up after scraping or hitting something. It's really scary. :o
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited April 2008
    sabotg wrote: »
    I have a recurring dream where I'm driving totally s**t faced. I try so hard to keep on the road and not crash into anything but I keep passing out and waking up after scraping or hitting something. It's really scary. :o

    For some members on this forum that's probably pretty close to a reality.....unfortunately.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited April 2008
    Never #1, sometimes #2, it's been a while though.
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited April 2008
    Mike Kozak wrote: »
    I usually get shot in my dreams, stabbed as well, not too fun

    Me too. I get shot a lot. And I get killed a lot. I guess that's not supposed to happen but it does all the time with me.
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  • SKsolutions
    SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
    edited April 2008
    Teeth falling out, or crumbling?
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