Nightmares Without Feelings

[LightAngel]

Anybody get this?

I am (and have been for a long while) emotionally numb. The only things I feel are anxiety and disembodied floating anger that isn't directed at anything.
So I frequently have nightmares, usually they are about me being in an undercover mission or fighting in a battle, and usually I am captured and killed. I feel totally indifferent about these, I feel no emotion in my dreams and I don't wake up from them. In other dreams, I lose my children and can't find them, and I feel anxious, for a long while during the dream, but I do not wake up.

Basically I have extremely disturbing dreams without feeling the impact of them. Is it just a part of my emotional apathy?

Anybody else?

 

[Eagle3]

I have that same problem. Nightmares that I don't feel during. Lately, though, as therapy has progressed, I am starting to have some emotional content in my dreams. I would even venture to say "normal" emotional content. The nightmares still don't wake me up (unless my dog dies in my dream), but it seems like I am having more emotional processing now.

 

[Friday]

When I'm trying to do the emotion thing in my waking hours, my nightmares will sometimes kick me into the same headspace I was in when they happened, aka zip. This is an emotion free zone.