Being hit from a distance is read as a sudden blow — harsh words, criticism or news that arrives without warning. Tradition takes it as hurt that lands before you can protect yourself. Being shot by someone you know is read as fear of their judgement or a feeling that they have wounded you. Being shot by a stranger is taken as general anxiety or vulnerability. Surviving or waking before anything happens is read as resilience, and feeling no pain as numbness to a recent hurt. This is one of the more common frightening dreams, symbolic and not a forecast, and it can help to notice where you feel under fire.
Where in your waking life have you met something like this lately?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.