Let's revisit the question of individuality and emotions. How are they connected? Both are extreme for humans and even for all animals on Earth - we have extremely high level of individuality and emotions compared to many aliens.
By the way (expression "by the way" means that I diverge here and intend to come back), emotions also called "feelings". This is their main properties. They are perceived as if they were coming from outside of physical mind. We feel them as if they were our senses of outside events. Often it is hard to tell if it is an emotion or a physiological process. We feel sped up heart beat or characteristic sensations inside the head or near the heart or guts or shaking limbs, or cold in the fingers and realize that we are having a specific emotion. Much of that is linked to blood chemistry: sympathetic activation is generally for "flight-or-fight" emergency response, and parasympathetic activation is for "rest-and-digest" response including physical sex. See Sapolsky for details.
Apparently, the creators of life on Earth have programmed in parameters in extreme. They maximized the individuality by making the Veil strong and making physical mind operate in extremely limited space - it can perceive only physical world and is prohibited from peering through the Veil. (The term "Veil" is used to signify that we are blocked from perceiving the higher dimensions: can not talk to you, angels, daemons, each other, spirits of the dead, etc). Some (psychic) humans can but most can not. Blocking psychic abilities might have not been easy for our Creators. I believe it can not be done only by programming the genome, since our animals also seem to be limited in psychic abilities. Also, if the limitation was only genetic, we would have been able to genetically overcome the limitation by via genetic evolution. I believe that the limitation is both genetic and vibrational: there is something on Earth that blocks our ability to be psychic. I already mentioned a clue from Pleiadian collective that our psychic or telepathic frequencies have been jammed. Possibly there is a broadcast of some sort of electromagnetheric noise that blocks frequencies used for telepathy and psychic communications to higher dimensions. Even dolphins on Earth are predatory, competitive and fight each other physically, sometimes to death.
Sleep is one of mechanisms which likely compensate for our extreme isolation. I understand that in sleep our daily experiences are uploaded to our higher selves and guidance from higher selves is downloaded back to subconscious so it can be used during the day. Without the sleep the whole experiment would be energetically inefficient and our higher selves would have no reason in playing the game. But with the sleep, it becomes a thrilling experience full of energy. The Earth seems to be quite energetically vibrant both for physical humans and for our higher selves.
It is paradoxical that in sleep, we have our Veil lifted and do have a connection to higher dimensions, but when sleep is over, our physical mind is again deprived of connection and memories of outside of physical world. This complicated arrangement stays put for humans and animals on Earth, so there ought to be a strong and sophisticated system which kept this mechanism in place during millions of years of Earth's development.
Much ought to be hidden in our subconscious mind. Astral travel and out of body experiences prove that our logical mind personality is not located in physical body. People can leave their bodies and come back. This other body is typically called etheric body or mental body or astral body. There is much confusion about terminology. I use the term etheric body since it is a bit more popular and a bit more generic. I have got a clue from Adrian Dvir's book and also asked the aliens several times: it looks like our other bodies also have some sort of DNA (etheric DNA) and have their own genome and genetic code. I understand that this is all very digital and is a large computer simulation.
Best movie that illustrates the point is called: "Matrix". It is a cult movie and depicts the idea that higher selves are using humans as vessels for obtaining experience. The movie may appear to violent and too simplistic for you to the extent of distorting the idea, but take a note that this is by far the most successful educational tool that succeeded explaining the idea of incarnation and experience to the mainstream masses. They didn't take it for real, but they certainly paid attention and now understand the idea.
So in the dream, our logical mind (physical mind), subconscious mind and higher self become united and communicate. As the sleep ends, they separate, and physical mind becomes isolated again.
There is some sort of a switch which allows physical mind to either communicate with physical world or with higher world but not to both at once. This mechanism is evolutionarily conserved, meaning that it is necessary for survival.
How then dolphins overcome this limitation? It is known that dolphins have two halves of their brain sleep in alternated fashion: right half sleeps and left half is awake and then they switch. So dolphins are asleep and awake at the same time. That is why they are psychic on the planet where psychic abilities are jammed.
I believe that psychic humans also are able to overcome the limitation by getting into a half-awake, half-asleep trance state.
I also have come across reports that when humans get on your ships, their telepathic abilities are unblocked. So I assume the jamming is pertinent only to Earth and is removed on your ships. These are only hypotheses and I wish to learn more.