u/thisissomewheretobe

I've noticed that I mostly only feel intense emotions in my dreams. In real life, I rarely feel anything at all tbh, but in dreams I sometimes feel emotions so intensely that I feel it physically, e.g. feeling so devastated/sad it physically hurts my chest, or crying so hard I can't breathe. In real life I never have reactions like that. The memories of those dream emotions often stay with me for years, even if I can't remember what even happened in the dream that caused them.