Bad Dreams...

[joe/OH]

I've been having a lot of bad dreams lately. Thinking too much on the whole subject I suppose. My latest theme is that my ammo won't work or possibly something wrong with the firing pin. Just goes 'click' on every cartridge. Or the gun jams and I can't clear it.

Anyone else have a lot of these dreams or am I alone here? What's your latest?

[DefensiveCarry.com]

[rocky]

some strange dreams occasionally, but nothing that bad.

[QKShooter]

Where is that bottle of lithium carbonate? :poke:

[P95Carry]

Where was I reading? - forget.

Someone on a thread about such things suggested that perhaps we subconsciously feel we are inadequately trained and so may fail under stress - and so this gets incorporated in to dream material.

Not really sure myself, but never feel my own ''training level'' is ever adequate compared with what I may choose and yet - no such dreams. Maybe with age I am gettin' real laid back about it all

"Que sera, sera" - perhaps!

[joe/OH]

Chris,

I'm not psychotherapist, but I think - for me at least - that it's really just because it has been on my mind alot. Remember that carrying for me is still pretty new. So I constantly run scenarios through my head and 'obsess' for lack of a betterw word over different situations. Don't get me wrong - in part it's fun - in a weird masochistic sort of way.

For example, Sunday we were running a lot of malfunction drills and my friend's Keltec P3AT started soft striking about every other round (on the LIVE rounds - not just the dummy rounds). It freaked her out (she has emailed Keltec) but it also got me thinking too - how bad would THAT be to need a weapon and to hear a click when you pull the trigger? So I have an idea that is where a lot of these feelings are coming from.

[Bud White]

Ive always had Nightmares on and off since i was a kid notice when i get more stressed they start up more go out buy yourself something it will make you feel better

[joe/OH]

So I can write off that Bushmaster as a medical expensive - i.e. psychological treatment? "Yeah honey... Dr. White prescribed it..."

[A1C Lickey]

You can try.... of course if you do try, she should start planning her legal defense now.

A1C Lickey

[Bud White]

So I can write off that Bushmaster as a medical expensive - i.e. psychological treatment? "Yeah honey... Dr. White prescribed it..."

Works for me While your at it add a 1911 in might as well get 2 dose's of feel good

[Bruces45]

Where was I reading? - forget.

Someone on a thread about such things suggested that perhaps we subconsciously feel we are inadequately trained and so may fail under stress - and so this gets incorporated in to dream material.

Tater Salad stated that in my post concering the same bad dream seniero.

I also have many of those same dreams, so your not alone Joe. Might be lack of training as I haven't had any "real" training. I would like to visit the Thunder Ranch or a similar defensive shooting course, but haven't yet so I am stuck with my hillbilly training (shooting paper plates, swinging steel plates, trees, rolling tires with cardboard in them, ya know the poor mans training.

[joe/OH]

I'm all for hillbilly training. It's cheap so I can do it more often. Plus we have a deputy that used to teach at TDI that runs an all day advanced class for $100. Yeah - it's still semi-hillbilly, but I don't have to travel and I don't have to sacrifice potential toy purchases.

[tater_salad]

That was correct, and I think P45Carry actually stated it better than I originally did. I really think you guys should check www.killology.com out. He has several books out (I even have a lecture of his on compact disc, 'the bulletproof mind' that I may dig out and listen to again when I get a chance). I would say he's definitely qualified in his opinions, and he has some very interesting material that relates directly to what we talk about so often in here. Give it a shot, you won't be dissapointed