Haptics

How much you physically feel. Turn it up and every bump, vibration, and ache registers. Turn it down and the pain, tension, and discomfort fade into the background.

Haptics shifted Dave from normal emotional sensitivity to feeling everything with overwhelming intensity during his captivity. While initially he could process the horror of witnessing murder and violence, the psychological debriefing revealed just how deeply he'd absorbed the trauma — when describing the old couple's murder, "my voice just vanished and I literally just melted into a lump." His system had been registering every emotional shock at maximum intensity, storing trauma he didn't even realize he was carrying until years later when he couldn't speak or stand upon seeing a photo of his destroyed yacht.