What happens in these dreams?
In the first one I danced with the one girl that I know in real life. She was dancing around a room of people until held her in my arms for a moment, then she pushed away from me and lead me down to a basement games room and watched another girl I know playing pool with some other guys, and woke up. Boring.
In the second dream I was being taunted by a walrus until two hot chicks in thongs showed up, giggled a little, and then I woke up. More eye candy, but also very boring.
The the last dream this morning, crap… I don’t remember what happened, just who was in it, that she was fully clothed, and it was also boring. Crap, I should have written it all down earlier…
Maybe you have never fired a gun in real life, so your brain does not know how to simulate this to your subconscious. It’s much the same for me. Whenever I do something I have absolutely never done before, it does not work.
Example:
I can fly in my dreams, because I know how it feels to fall from great heights. My brain substitutes the feeling of “flying” with that of falling, and I can actually fly.
I have fired a gun in real life. Several. And the guns in my dreams hardly ever work properly either.
I have never fallen from great heights in real life, but I have flown in my dreams on many occasions.
Hmm. That disrupts my theory. Well, it made sense while it lasted. Science has struck again 
Oh, or maybe it doesn’t! How about your brain being incapable of providing the necessary noise for firing a gun in your dream, because it would be too loud and make you wake up?
Guess why I was trying to use a gun in the first place? People were shooting at me with loud noisy guns
pERHAPS IT SYMBOLIZES A SENSE OF HOPELESSNESS IN THE FACE OF SOME SITUATION.
Or the use of too much caps lock 
Also, wouldn’t you be able to simulate what it feels like to shoot a gun from playing games and watching action movies? Also your theory about sound doesn’t seem right. Your dream would obviously make it less loud than a real fire arm.
Also, I’ve driven cars in my dreams, but I’ve never driven a car in real life.
Same here. It probably is representative of something, but I couldn’t say what for sure. As winged one so capsily said, it could represent a feeling of helplessness, or it could be an expression of a subconscious desire to be peaceful and not hurt anything, or it could represent a frustration that things aren’t going the way you want, etc.
Oh yeah, you totally want him. Well, who doesn’t.
I used to have recurring dream where I would jump up in the air and keep going up, unable to get down. Freaky stuff man.
I have been reading about lucid dreaming recently, and the other night i had one, albeit very short.
It was actually more of a false awakening but in the dream i somehow knew i was lucid so i got out of bed intending to head outside and see if i could fly. Before i could even reach the stairs however, i could feel myself waking up and fought to stay asleep.
I managed to fight it off, but as soon as i felt i was safe to keep going i opened my eyes and woke up properly.
You can’t fight waking up. If it happens, it will overwhelm you. Pretty much like I imagine the process of dying.
I have rethought all my theories about dreaming, and according to psychologic material I have researched, they don’t apply. Dreams are a means of coping with real life situations. Dreams in which you try to defend yourself against enemies, and are unable to (for instance, because your gun does not fire) are symbolic of a general feeling of helplessness you might have had in real life recently - or even some time ago. Recurring identical dreams mean that the problem remains or has reoccurred. There was more of that stuff, but I have already forgotten where I read it.
Muh… I think those Freudian explanations of dreams use way too rigid interpretations. I think dreams are different for everyone. You can’t really analyse a dream without knowing the person who had it and how he is. Any symbolism would be completely subjective and thus “gun does not fire” stuff could mean a lot of things depending on the person.
i think
So I had a bad one a few weeks ago. I was sleeping in a camper trailer (IRL) and I dreamed I was trying to fall asleep in a camper trailer. each time I “fell asleep” in my dream I was in a new camper trailer, trying to sleep. They were all slightly different and I came to that realisation that I was in a dream.
That is when it got bad. each time I tried to wake myself up, I would only wake up in my dream. each time I woke up the new camper trailer had some problem, IE; the door was missing and I could hear creatures outside, or I was completely paralysed. When I finally managed to wake up IRL, I was out of breath like being underwater for a long time, not like running and the rest of me was still asleep, like when your arm falls asleep, only your whole body.
Honestly, that is how I imagine it would feel to be brought back from the dead. 
You would be surprised how much that is actually like it. I was once revived after being unconscious due to having fallen out of a tree, and your description actually resembles some of the feelings I had.
I’ve had a dream in which I experienced zero-gravity, to the point where I felt my stomach contents drift around as I moved. I have never experienced anything close to zero gravity: some might say swimming is close, but I lost all sense of up/down and, obviously, when you swim your food doesn’t go walkabout. Despite never having felt this, my brain managed to reproduce the effects rather impressively.
I think that might be sleep paralysis, but I could be wrong.
I’ve fired shotguns, machine guns, rocket launchers and used a chainsaw in dreams but never fired a gun IRL.
Also I’ve been killed plenty of times in various dreams and also experienced “noclip” effect which really made people freak out (in my dream)…
I once dreamed of firing an assault rifle closely resembling the Magpul Masada / ACR. Only that was long before it was revealed to the public. Stunning coincidence.
I have also never fired anything bigger than a single shot BB gun iRL.
QFT. Man I hate when that happens…you’re having a great dream and then something happens IRL which disrupts it, and you can feel the dream slipping away. Sucks man.
I think you are right. As Freud supposedly said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” Things that happen in dreams could be expressions of your subconscious, or they could just be there because you watched a certain movie before going to bed. Can never say for sure.
However, speaking of Freudian things…sometimes I have dreams where I start doing something sexual to a girl, but she doesn’t care or, sometimes, she doesn’t even notice that I’m doing anything, and continues doing whatever she was doing. Wonder what that means…