gunshots

A few nights ago I was awakened at 3 AM by what I took to be gunshots. None of my neighbors said anything about them so I wonder if maybe they occurred in my dream. But I’m pretty sure they were outside. The sound was loud, loud enough to rouse me from a sound sleep into a state of semi-consciousness. But the odd thing was that they did not sound the way gunshots are always reported to sound: “a series of pops, like firecrackers, not at all like what you hear in the movies.” No, they sounded like the gunshots, exactly the kind of gunshots you do hear in the movies. Loud reports like downsized TNT explosions going off one after another. Five in all. Bang bang bang bang bang. I could picture a muzzle of considerable size discharging speeding bullets.