Hollow
What is Hollow?
An empty, flat experience of being, as if the emotional center has gone offline. Present in body, absent everywhere else.
When you might feel hollow
Hollow is a specific form of numb, which itself is a type of frozen. You might experience this feeling in situations where frozen is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define hollow.
Explore Hollow on the Interactive Wheel
Use our free interactive feeling wheel to explore hollow and discover related emotions.
Open Nervous System States WheelRelated Emotions
An absence of feeling — the system has dampened sensation as a form of protectio...
A sense of watching yourself from a distance — the mind exits the body when stay...
Drifting out of contact with the present — time blurs, sounds feel far away, you...
A thick, cognitive slowness that makes thinking feel like moving through water —...
A loss of reference points — you can't locate yourself in time, space, or relati...
Unable to move forward or backward — activation meets inhibition and the system ...