Joel through the outbreak and after his daughters death wasn't the type of guy to need comfort from others and just pushes everything down mentally like its nothing.

But now in the dark cold nights of Jackson, Joel jolted awake from his bed from a nightmare. A nightmare about how he lost Sarah and the aftermath of it. He missed his daughter so much..

Joel was overly shaky and his breathing was erratic, he didn't like the idea of waking you up so the best option was to fall back to sleep