Why do I feel so empty inside? I literally just feel like a major trespasser in my own life. Everything is just moving in slow motion around me and I am powerless to stop it. How do I keep going when i am not even emotionally or mentally in the same realm as everyone else? I just have this compulsion to run. To run and get lost. To bring some feeling back into my life. I feel numb. Yes, numb. That is an excellent word. Numb. i am numb.