A man from Illinois has been arrested after accidentally shooting himself during a nightmare.
Bad dreams can be an awful thing, especially when they appear to be incredibly realistic.
If you’ve never been chased through your house by a psychotic madman in the dreamworld and woken up in a puddle of sweat, then maybe you can’t relate to what this one man has gone through.
On the night of April 10, 62-year-old Mark Dicara was dreaming of a burglar breaking into his home.
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During the awful dream, he grabbed a .357 Magnum revolver and fired a shot into the darkness before a pain in his leg woke him up to an empty room.
It turns out, there was no home invasion, and the pain was due to Dicara mistakenly shooting himself in his dream-like state.
The man was quickly rushed to the hospital once police arrived to find him losing a 'significant amount of blood'.
However, trouble would brew when investigators discovered that he used the revolver without a state-mandated Firearm Owners Identification Card.
Dicara’s LinkedIn profile states that he is a semi-retired attorney who is licenced to practice law in Wisconsin and Illinois.
According to deputies, they found Dicara bleeding profusely from his leg, and they applied a tourniquet to help bring it under control before sending him off to the hospital for treatment.
Thankfully, nobody was harmed by the stray bullet when passed through his leg before being lodged in his bedding.
The authorities quickly concluded that no home invasion ever took place, but the man was subsequently believed to have violated state firearm laws.
Even though he previously owned an identification card, but it had been revoked.
However, officials have yet to confirm why or when his licence was revoked.
The Lake County State's Attorney's Office did go on to announce that they would be attempting to charge Dicara for possession of a gun without a valid firearm owners identification card.
He was also charged with reckless discharge of a firearm.
The elderly man appeared in court after posting $150,000 bond due to his nightmare blunder.
“We’ve investigated accidental or negligent shootings, however, this is the first that we can recall where someone fired a gun because of a dream they were having,” Lake County Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli told CNN in an email.
He won’t be sleeping next to his gun again, that’s for sure.
LADbible has reached out to the Lake County State's Attorney's Office for a comment.
Britt Jones