This sounds like a protective tool, a way of keeping distance between you and your world--perhaps giving you a position of objectivity that is very difficult to maintain in day-to-day contact with life's questions.

But you ask about getting rid of it, so it sounds like your stuck in that perspective. I know journals who speak o f getting the objective viewpoint in place before they write about a story filled with emotion, but it's something they control.

Have you tried meditation? Work with one sense at a time and work to get past that glass pane. For example, play music that has special meaning for you. Really hear the separate instruments, imagine being in the performance and sense each musician and each instrument. Hum or play bits of the music if you can. Do the same thing with a painting or photograph: try to physically connect to every experiential as an immediate reality for you.

I take it you're a writer. What you're suffering sounds like a sort of writers block that suggests you're not currently writing what your gut wants to be dealing with.

Is there something you get a flash on, a sense that you need to deal with something that you've been avoiding? It may not be something for sending out--it may be something that's part of a block in your life. Because you're a writer, your best analytic tool is language.

I was in a Jungian dream group for many years with several writers. Often they had dreams that seemed to be seen throu a picture screen of some kind. Things weren't what they seemed to be and if they could reach through the screen they could begin to understand the reality behind the screen. I think many writers work from dreams, even if they don't realize they are bits of dreams that float into our conscious mind during the day.