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Horseshoe malfunction...of course I could handle it!

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On a two way jump with my buddy we decide to watch each other pull. During the jump there was some confusion and I realized I had to pull before my buddy, and he allready had his hand on his hackey. We were about 3 feet apart. It never occured to me that it could be dangerous to pull so close to each other. :S

So I rush to pull before him and get unstable! :D. Now my bag is comming up between my legs and the lines entangles with my rigth foot. :o
I notice that I'm still at 10 000', so I got some time to work with it.
I untangel my foot. It was pretty easy and I was calm. After clearing the lines and falling belly down again I'm thinking...hey! Why doesn't it open???? Pondering about wether or not I should cut away I notice I'm still holding my pc. :$
I release it and it all opens fine. B|

This is when I wake up and thinking how wierd this dream was...
Hope I never have to experience a horseshoe mal, but if I do I hope I'll deal with it just as calm as in my dream... ;)
Isn't it wierd that malfunction dreams aren't nightmares!

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seriously. I think I've pulled at around 500ft. in just about every skydive dream I've ever had and landed sliderup still. Usually I have to pull my dbag and all the lines out before it'll start inflating. Jumping would get old real fast if it was that much work to open everytime.
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I have lived your dream. Not the exact scenario but I've been at 10k with lines wrapped around my right foot, trying to untangle them. I stopped try to untangle them at 5k feet and went silver. Time seemed to slow down, I had severe tunnel vision on my foot until I heard my brain say 'You're gonna DIE if you keep doing this' and I went chop-chop WHAM. Nice reserve, no handles, sore body ... but alive :)

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I think I've pulled at around 500ft.



Really? I have had plenty of dreams where I don't pull and land perfectly fine. I also have no pull dreams that I black out for a second and then I get up, dust myself off and say "dude that was cool" and run to the landing plane to get back on...

If only I could really do that...

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Really? I have had plenty of dreams where I don't pull and land perfectly fine. I also have no pull dreams that I black out for a second and then I get up, dust myself off and say "dude that was cool" and run to the landing plane to get back on...

If only I could really do that...



I have those too.. dusting myself off hoping nobody saw that... or tracking for a steep slope... ;):S
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I had a really scary one the other night. I was at a beach boogie and whole groups were just fallin' in the ocean. Usually it's me and my canopy miraculously opens seconds before impact and I just step down. This time was not so cool.

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I have had plenty of dreams where I don't pull and land perfectly fine.



I've had these, too, only I don't remember the landing, only that it wasn't under canopy. In mine, I've cutaway, but the reserve hasn't opened in time. As I walk into the hangar, people look up from packing and ask, "What happened?"
"Reserve didn't open on time."
"Huh. Want on sunset load?"

Bizarre. Errr...'glad' to know I'm not the only one who's had these? [:/]
-C.

edit: damn typo

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Om my gosh, I had a dream sort of like this one as well, but a bit more in depth. I drempt I was at a beach boogie and my family was there as well and I was holding my kids as we watched for Todd, but all of a sudden all these fighter jets came in and started bombing as the jumpers where in the air, none of them decided to pull and they all fell into the sea, and that is all you saw befor a big bright light, then I woke up, and my dad said I was screaming. The funny thing is he had a simular dream of watching bombs drop.

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