What's more true?

[Popinjay]

What's more true, the thoughts and feeling you have during an actual experience or the thoughts and feelings you have when reflecting upon an experience?

[MidGe]

Neither.

[soon2bepro]

What's the difference?

[henrikrh]

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What's more true, the thoughts and feeling you have during an actual experience or the thoughts and feelings you have when reflecting upon an experience?

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What is "more true"? More accurate, more genuine?

What do you mean feelings? Thoughts, emotions, recollections, all of the above?


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Edit: Despite all teh unvlarity I will say that the feelings linked with the experience are truer the closer to the experience, and truest at the moment of the experience. Memory distorts and fades.

[guesswest]

We really need more information as to what exactly you're asking Popin.

If by truer you mean a more accurate reflection of the events those sensations represent, then probably the experience at the time, since memory is notoriously inaccurate and malleable.

But there's no way to really calculate or quantify that if you're referring to anything metaphysical; since any analysis is immediately retrospective. There are also some situations to the contrary, ie something you didn't catch at the time seems much more evident in retrospect armed with new facts. An example, the awkwardness you couldn't quite place at the time, when you commented on a father and son looking alike, suddenly clicks when you subsequently find out the kid's adopted.

[Copernicus]

or the awful awkwardness you feel when you finally get your girlfriends sister into bed and realize they live together and therefore are on the same cycle.