Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 week ago
There’s a common dream among gun nuts, where you squeeze and squeeze and squeeze the trigger, but the gun never fires.
It has to do with how we are often taught to shoot. If you anticipate the recoil, you tend to push the gun forward, the muzzle drops, and you miss your target. To counter that, you’re taught to slowly squeeze the trigger while you aim, and let the shot surprise you. By the time you recognize the gun has fired, the bullet has already passed through your target.
In the dream, you’re squeezing harder and harder and harder, waiting for a bang that is never going to come.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
That’s a familiar feeling. In my dreams, things tend to be wrong somehow. You’re expecting something to happen, but that’s not how it works in dreams.
In some cases, the exact opposite happens. You just go with the weird flow, and don’t even realize how wrong everything is. When you wake up, you wonder how you didn’t notice anything odd at the time. While dreaming, you’re so familiar with the unusual rules of the game that even the strangest things don’t make you bat an eyelid.