Holy crap! I thought I was unique. I have those dreams too. Bullet seems to crawl out of the barrel and everything is in sow mo except for the bad guy.That's horrible. It's like those dreams we have when we are pulling the trigger and nothing happens or the bullets "float" to and/bounce off the bad guys. The victim is lucky indeed.
This is why I stopped carrying the 1911 (along with the desire to avoid having such a pretty thing confiscated in the event of a self defense usage). I didn't trust myself to remember the safety, no matter how much I practiced. The Glock muscle memory was just so ingrained. It wasn't worth the effort when the easier and more efficient choice was to stick with what I already knew. Others' MMV.
I'm not opposed to manual safeties. I prefer firearms that don't have them, but I won't not purchase one just because it does. It will just never be an EDC option. As it is, we rarely use safeties anyway. Never been a need.