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What are gun dreams about?

Guns are weapons that shoot bullets. They can be used from a far distance and cause great harm. This symbol is identified by words like shotgun, gun, revolver, etc.

Guns in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 4.0% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 25 dreams.

What are the major highlights of gun dreams?

Guns is a normal dream symbol. Having guns in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Dreams of guns are aggressive

Gun dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all guns have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having guns in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include detours, break ups, Bangladesh, hairdressers, talismans, harpoons, disguises, wounds, rockets, and betrayal.

Gun dreams might be about death

Dreams that contain guns are highly related to death. They are more related to death than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include cancer, nuclear bombs, knives, grief and sorrow, going to die, nazis, grandmothers, hunger, cursing, and Voldemort.

What are the symbols that help define guns?

The symbol of guns in dreams is highly related to weapons.

How does the dream symbol of guns affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of guns

Who is in guns dreams?

Overall, dreams with guns are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of guns are more related to different roles and much more related to distant people than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to romantic partners.

Animals

less than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

more than usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

much more than usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in guns dreams?

Overall, dreams with guns are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of guns are more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

less than usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in guns dreams?

Overall, dreams with guns are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of guns are more related to home, more related to human places, and more related to transportation than dreams in general.

Home

more than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

more than usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in guns dreams?

Overall, dreams with guns are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of guns are much more related to aggressive interactions and much more related to disasters than dreams in general. They are less related to sex.

Aggressive interactions

much more than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

much more than usual
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How do guns in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with guns are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of guns are less related to recurring dreams.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do guns in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with guns are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of guns are more related to hearing and more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to smelling and less related to taste.

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

more than usual
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How can you make sense of guns in dreams?

Gun dreams are relatively common. Among other things gun dreams are normally interconnect, aggressive, and about death.

Do you think this is true for your dream of guns? How might your dream of guns be different?

All dreams have meaning

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience guns in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about guns in dreams. See how you feel about guns now, in your waking life.

What are possible meanings for dreams of guns?

Guns are so prevalent in media and society that the possibilities for symbolism are almost endless, especially when you factor in personal associations. Dreams begin with an association and create symbolism with it, and guns have many associations: self-defense, coercion, conflict, hostility, aim, targeting. We’ll discuss these and more, and give you the tools you need to figure out what a gun in your dreams means.

As with all dream symbolism, a gun is understood within the context of the dream-story. Is it pointed at you, or do you point it? Is it fired? Is anyone hurt? Is it loaded? These details carry different connotations.

A primary association with guns is linked with self-defense, so if you point or use a gun to defend yourself in a dream it might symbolize defending yourself in some other way: from personal attacks, from intrusion, from hostility. It might be a sign that you need to stick up for yourself—probably not with a gun, but in some way to defend your boundaries or appropriately express your anger.

Or perhaps you’re being defensive. Something feels threatening, including intangible threats such as to your reputation. You don’t want to realize or admit something, or are resisting a change. Instead you act hostile, you resist, you threaten. A gun in this context means “defensive” or “resistant.”

A gun can symbolize feeling pressured, coerced, or forced. You are “under the gun.” The symbolism is created by how guns are used to force people to do things they don’t want to.

Along these lines, consider that using a gun in a dream can symbolize taking the easy way out. Rather than talk through a conflict or take time to persuade, you pull a gun in the figurative sense and impose your will. That sort of scenario is portrayed all the time in television and movies. The person holding the gun says, “Do this or else,” and the person on the other end doesn’t really have a choice. It’s “do or die.”

Gun are used to point, and pointing can be a way of indicating guilt, blame, or responsibility. It says, “That’s who did it.”

On the other hand, aiming a gun can symbolize focus, such as focus of attention or concentration. When you aim a gun, you focus on a target. A target in a dream can symbolize anything you aim for or target in your life, such as a goal or ambition. For example, targeting a romantic interest with your attention can be symbolized as seeing that person in your gun sights. See: Arrows, Bullets

Your feelings can tell you the difference. There’s a big difference between pointing a gun in anger or with hostility, and pointing one to symbolize targeting a romantic interest.

Aiming or firing at a moving target can mean you’re trying to hit a proverbial moving target! The metaphor is obvious when you step back and look at it.

If a gun is fired at you it can symbolize verbal or personal attacks. A fired gun is loud and can symbolize loud arguments, confrontations, and heated words. If you fire a gun, it can symbolize that you are being loud or angry, or taking “verbal shots.” The key to the symbolism is the loud noise and the feeling of confrontation. See: Bullets

Firing a gun can be a raw expression of anger. See: Anger

Situations that get out of hand can involve guns, so in dreams guns can be used to create a scenario where things get out of hand and use it to connect with something in your life that’s out of hand and potentially dangerous.

A gun in a dream can indicate paranoia or delusion, connected with the association that some people who carry guns are paranoid or delusional.

Guns can symbolize egotism and machismo. Put a gun in someone’s hand and watch the worst in the person come out. See a false sense of confidence and authority emerge. If you observe such behavior in yourself or someone you know, you can dream about it as being careless or overconfident with a gun.

A gun with a hair trigger, which fires or threatens to fire at the slightest touch, can symbolize a temper set off by small provocations. Even people who don’t normally show a lot of temper can have times when stress, pressure, and anxiety make them feel like they could “go off.” Have you lost your temper lately, or do you feel the pressure building?

A hair trigger, or a gun that fires on its own, can symbolize premature ejaculation. Guns have many other phallic associations. A bullet penetrates. A barrel is long, straight, and hard. Guns are symbols of machismo. They shoot.

Feeling threatened by a gun pointed at you can symbolize feeling threatened by someone’s sexual advances.

Loading a gun in a dream can mean you are preparing for a confrontation. It might be a warning to be careful of getting carried away with emotions, especially anger. It can symbolize thinking of the points you will make during an argument or talk. Ammunition is used in this sense to mean preparation. On the other hand, if you have no ammunition it can mean you aren’t prepared, or don’t have good points to make during an argument. See: Ammunition

If you try to fire a gun and it jams or misfires, it can mean you aren’t able to express your anger. You have trouble expressing anger—you hold it in rather than let it out—or fear what might happen if you do express it.

A jammed gun can connect with a feeling of powerlessness.

If a gun is pointed at you and you try to block it or take it away, it can mean you are worried about being targeted. You feel threatened. Or you want to deflect blame or responsibility.

The symbolism of guns can get especially deep and varied for people who carry one as part of their job, or have used guns in combat. For example, a gun in the dream of a police officer might symbolize thoughts and feelings related to the possibility of having to use it. It could be used to symbolize other aspects of the job or the person’s career. For example, dreaming of having no bullets could symbolize feeling unqualified or unable to advance in the job. Dreaming of not having the strength to pull the trigger can refer to the guts it takes to actually pull the trigger and kill another human being, or reluctance to do so.

(On that note, inability to pull the trigger can symbolize inability to make a decision or move forward with something, to pull the trigger in the figurative sense.)

Anyone who has been involved in a shooting incident can dream about it for many years afterward. The fear, anger, anxiety, and other related emotions are processed in dreams, and psychological distance from the experience(s) is created by dreaming about it. Such an experience can become synonymous with those emotions, so that anytime they’re experienced for any reason, a dream can use the original incident to compare with something presently going on in your life. In such dreams the assailant can be shot multiple times but not go down, or appears unharmed, symbolizing that no matter how a person tries to forget such an experience, it won’t go away.

The same imagery can symbolize someone or something that won’t go away, a problem that can’t be solved, a situation that won’t resolve, or a person who doesn’t get the message. Most dream characters represent something about yourself, so the first possibility to consider is a character you shoot in a dream represents something about yourself you want to change.

The same idea applies when you are the one shot. Being shot by a bad guy is a common theme in the dreams of people who are frustrated with themselves and can’t or won’t do anything about it.

A silenced gun in a dream can indicate you aren’t voicing your anger or feelings. Perhaps you need to be more vocal.

Shooting yourself with a gun can symbolize doing some sort of harm to yourself. For example, shooting yourself in the heart can symbolize having to break off a relationship with someone you love. Shooting yourself in the head can symbolize hating your thoughts. Shooting yourself can express the feeling that you want to give up, figuratively or literally.

Shooting yourself, or being shot, in certain parts of the body can show where you’re hurt or wounded physically, emotionally, or psychologically. See: Amputation, Body parts, Suicide

See also: Ammunition, Amputation, Anger, Armies, Arresting, Arrows, Body parts, Bullets, Death, Hats, Heads, Hearts, Police, Suicide, War, Wounds

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet.

Examples of dreams of guns

Read some real dream reports of gun dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.

I raped a woman in my dream

I met a beautiful girl and she said i'm ugly, at this point I followed her to the toilet and I put a gun on her head and forced her to suck me and then to have sex with me.

Honestly this dream was nasty and I'm shocked. What does it mean?

In my opinion it means that I have some anger and frustation in my self and i should get ride of it, because I didnt want to rape her basically but when she said I'm ugly I had some anger and frustation feeling that made me want to rape her or something. I don't think I have sexual frustation (maybe a bit) but not that much, I don't care if I dont have sex with a woman over a long time, but In real life I'm not that confident (I'm 25) and I know that I'm somehow frustated when a woman doesn't tell me I'm looking good or something. That's a real problem I have to work on it. Honestly it scared me because I feel like, if I did it in my dream why would I not do it in real life? I don't want to but who knows, maybe this is my subconscious desire?

What do you think?

I met a beautiful girl and she said i'm ugly, at this point I followed her to the toilet and I put a gun on her head and forced her to suck me and then to have...

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Dream about the Corona Virus and Aliens

In the dream, it was shown that the Corona Virus was a chemical weapon created by North Korea, and for some reason they decided to invade Canada, and spread the virus there.

The dream was procceeded with Random weird stuff like, the Human Race went extinct. It was revealed that the Corona Virus Was actualy an Alien virus, and because of that the Aliens has arrived to Earth when the Human Race was extinct.

I dont know what happened next, but I remember then I found myself in my own appartment in the dream, I was appearently armed with a Shotgun and a Wood made Rocket Launcher, the way I shot others was hilarious; I said "Pew, pew!" out of my mouth and pretended to shoot and harm the enemy 'player' (Yes, it was a game like dream scenario).

I've then noticed that the Ground below our house is deformed slightly, only then after few seconds taking a look again to see that the ground in the street was divided into 2 (With a pit at the centre) and it seems to be getting bigger and bigger, I had a memory flashed in my head (That never happened actualy, It's dream only), that the neightboring Building house was immensely shaking from the unstable ground.

The dream ended at this point.

In the dream, it was shown that the Corona Virus was a chemical weapon created by North Korea, and for some reason they decided to invade Canada, and spread the...

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Headless Christian People that blew their own heads off

NSFW

I had a dream that I was standing in my mom’s living room and staring out the front window. I saw multiple people walking around aimlessly, and all of their heads were missing. I turn around and noticed there was a headless girl in the room with me. We started to communicate through like an ESP situation. I asked her why she didn’t have a head? She told me she blew it off with a shotgun. I asked her why and she responded “Jesus Christ told me to do it, so I did.” And I said “That’s ridiculous, you shouldn’t have done that.” She responded “We don’t ask questions, we just follow his orders.”

They were all naked, but no prominent sexual features or anything, just very androgynous and muted. They all looked the same. They weren’t bloody or mutilated, just a flat scar where their neck should’ve been.

NSFW

I had a dream that I was standing in my mom’s living room and staring out the front window. I saw multiple people walking around aimlessly, and all of...

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I’m terrified about what I dreamed about

I had a dream last night that I was in class when a kid I’m friends with walked in with a gun. We all hid under our desks. He stopped by my desk and pointed the gun at me. But somehow (dream logic doesn’t make sense) I made him turn the gun around as he was going to pull the trigger. He shot himself in the face a few times. It was so graphic and vivid. But I WAS THE ONE WHO FORCED HIS HAND AROUND. I’m terrified! What can this mean? I’ve never been in this kind of situation. Also - why this friend specifically? It’s so random and I would never even consider him to do something like this.

I had a dream last night that I was in class when a kid I’m friends with walked in with a gun. We all hid under our desks. He stopped by my desk and pointed the...

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Dreamt i was a black man who committed suicide

For context i’m a white 22 year old British male. Thought i’d share this story of the strangest most powerful dream i’ve had, it was about a year ago.

I dreamt i was a black male who was happily in love with a white woman. Her mother was racist and didn’t agree with me being with her daughter. I can’t fully remember everything but eventually the woman i was in love with died. Then i was holed up in a Scarface type mansion as men with guns attempted to come in and kill me.

In the end i managed to kill them all, but i had a sudden realisation that life was meaningless and i decided that i could no longer continue living, so i shot myself in the head. Everything went black and i was suddenly filled with massive regret, there was no afterlife, only darkness.

I woke up thinming what on earth was that! It was like Shakespeare’s Othello meets Scarface

For context i’m a white 22 year old British male. Thought i’d share this story of the strangest most powerful dream i’ve had, it was about a year ago.

I dreamt...

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