Originally Posted by
polikujm
I don't relate to doing this at all, but I can understand what you mean. Instead I feel my emotions are a stream too remarkable and they can't mentally transform into a fossil or some sort of definition. And I feel like it would be a shame to have all the power taken away from pure emotion and compromise it as a definitive fact, experience, or even explanation. NO! I don't even do that. It could be an enneagram thing--inability to truly step out of and subordinate my own emotions to experiences. It just doesn't work mentally nor would it mean anything to me. And once I think of an emotion it's just real; it consumes me, possesses me and never becomes simply an afterthought.
I don't think it's simply my mental way of interpreting the same phenomena we both experience. It seems like our experience differs, but I'm curious what you think.