Experience

An event or occurrence which leaves an impression on someone.

— Lexico.com

A way to categorise experiences

  • Perception
  • Episodic memory and imagination
  • Thinking
  • Pleasure, emotion, mood
  • Desire and agency
  • Non-ordinary experience
  • Others
    • Flow
    • Aesthetic
    • Transformative

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience

How to write about an experience?

  1. What was the event or occurrence. When, where and with whom?
  2. What were you doing?
  3. What was your intention?
  4. Your opinion about your own intention?
  5. Describe what was around you, the objects or people
  6. Describe the place, the weather
  7. The emotion you felt before, during or after the event or occurrence
  8. How did the event or occurrence play out?
  9. What caught your attention?
  10. Did you focus on anything?
  11. Thoughts going through your head throughout the experience
  12. What did you learn from the experience
  13. Did you experience a new emotion?