Thread: Difficulties in dreams

Are seemingly easy physical tasks difficult or impossible for you in dreams? Ok don't judge, I'm generally not a violent person. But a lot of my dreams (non-lucid) involve situations where I need/choose to fight... and sometimes I can barely swing my fist (or move my legs in some cases). It feels like I'm exercising underwater, there's so much resistance that I never noticed before I tried.

I've had many dreams with guns involved, and they always work somewhat properly except for weird things like a bullet being backwards in the magazine or a revolver with two cylinders and doesn't seem THAT odd at the time. But when I shoot my attacker, even in the face point blank, it has little or no effect. Sometimes there is a visible wound and sometimes not.

Once I dreamed I was driving my car, I pulled out of a driveway in reverse and when I switched to first the clutch kept slipping and I kept moving backwards and no matter how I revved the engine or let out the clutch, it still kept slipping until I went into a pond. That is a little abnormal, usually in dreams where I drive nothing goes wrong but its another example of the same feeling.

I've heard this sort of thing is somewhat normal... Anyone else have these experiences? Is there a way to make things just work like they're supposed to? It's a very uncomfortable feeling. I wonder what causes it? Anxiety or fear of the situation (either in the dream or in real life?) Usually I'm calm enough until I see the non-effect of my action and get frustrated.

Thoughts?