Naming Experances

[alan2here]

Have you ever had an experance, maybe while listening to some music, or being around a cirtain person, playing a game, doing an activity or seeing a sight. Where you feal a fealing that is hard to describe, It's hard because it has no name, It's not like love or hate, like happy or sad or hot or cold. It's something as of yet unnamed. It's something you can maybe only experance in that one circomstance and you don't know if anyone else has ever expearanced it or if you will ever know what it is called. Maybe it happened in a dream and the circomstances cannot be recreated or it no longer happens as it faded a little each time you tried it.

 

Maybe an index of names ought to be thought up for such emotions, if some sort of study was done where people decribed them and a list was compiled labeling simmerlar ones with a name for the emotion.

[Gypsy Cake]

Deja vu??

[Glider]

Maybe an index of names ought to be thought up for such emotions, if some sort of study was done where people decribed them and a list was compiled labeling simmerlar ones with a name for the emotion.

There are many names to describe powerful emotions. Even so, these are often mixed to define a particular, unique feeling.

 

The reason is that complex emotions are usually combinations of more basic feelings. These more basic elements are named, but none alone are adequate. The problem is that emotions are entirely subjective, so any name given will be descriptive and the names that exist usually define only universally recognised elements of a feeling.

 

For example, imagine you are trying to describe the flavour of a new sauce. You have to use a mixture of 'fixed' or objective and largely basic terms that are universally recognised, e.g. "It's lemony, with a hint of cinnamon and honey and it has a creamy texture".

 

The terms 'lemon', 'cinnamon', 'honey' and 'cream' are widely recognised, but none alone accurately or adequately describe the new taste. However, when used in combination and with reference to relative strength, others can get a rough idea of the experience. Without such 'objective' references, where would you begin?