"Asleep" Post revisited-----Hyper-empathy

 This is a new word to me, but it seems to describe what I experience, but only when I am asleep and in a dream or partial dream state.  

Hyper-empathy is a condition where an individual experiences emotions, particularly negative ones, with heightened intensity, and a tendency to absorb them, often leading to emotional overwhelm.  

  I suppose eventually there will be an in-depth definition of every possible mental affliction. But I have for a long time been aware that I am often in my dreams depicted as a bystander. I see and feel what happens to the character(s) I am dreaming about, though I'm an invisible presence. I guess I assumed that was a universal type of dream. But maybe not...Some nights I can still summon up the suffering of the  Asian woman trapped forever in that sealed metal body tube...