What are the main sorts of human experience?

Question

Every day we are subject to a variety of experiences. Some human experiences are everyday, some are unusual, some are rare, some are once in a lifetime. Apart from those classifications, what are the main sorts of our experiences?

I'm intrigued by the degree of hostility this question has attracted. Why is is so threatening?

I recall this question, and when I came back to it I recognized it as one I had asked and had sufficient computer skills to ask.

Looking at it now I perceive it as an image on a computer monitor, and I believe it is a question I asked and willed myself to act to ask.

Looking at the image, it has certain aesthetic qualities, might even be seen as beautiful. Hell, it might even be seen as evidence of God - a religious experience. But no, really I'm just seeing it mundanely, as an arrangement of pixels.

The answers, I have applied reason and imagination to them to assess their worth, more than was applied in giving them, I reckon.

Sensations of my fingers on the keyboard ( I once dreamed my fingers merged with it).

What should I make of the emotions these pathetic answers cause in me? - my disappointment, disgust, pity, bemusement.

I can't choose a best answer, there isn't one

Answer 1

Apart from the everyday and unusual,
the kind of experience I experience
is that incessant and enigmatic double-entendre
of conscious consciousness;
An echo of an echo. A call and response
that refers back to itself. And I follow it where it goes.

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Whats left to talk about after the everyday and the unusual?

Categorically, I'd have to say my day revolves around different orientations. And most are governed, or seem to be, by desire / belief. There are relationships in every thought-pattern, and what comes into being, what I choose, or what occurs effects that web of belief. It's not so individualistic, much of what I see happening is this body responding to the environment which demands performance. Driving a car, riding a bike, opening a door-- I do all these activities automatically. But these things aren't like propositions waiting to be called forward, it's very animal / biological.

The experience of art is another kind of orientation, but it's also endemic to our coping with the environment that we be involved in a level of play, nuance, discovery of new relations. My relationship with other people gets more amazing all the time. Direct facial vocal communicationis like jazz on the level of semiotcs. We always accept we can't know each other fully, nor even ourselves, and manage to commune in such a way we are somewhat convinced that we shared a pattern of belief, or saw where we were going together.. it's almost insane.

Sex is just the same, though symbolic meaning doesn't extend so much-- the communication is a performance of power. Real power, not just threat. Displays of power that escape the symbolic order seem closest to sex, to hand-to-hand fighting, truly viceral interactions.

What else what else? Relationship to math/logic, directed algorithmic thinking. Relationship to the past with memory, history etc. Relationship to the absurd and fortuitous. Relationship towards death. Being hungry vs being satisfied, figuratively.

I'd expand or try to be consise, but I have limited time, maybe I'll write something better later, sorry. This question is hard to answer in this space.

Answer 2

There are exactly two types of human experience. Pleasurable and painful. And since we have to rationlize what caused what so we can duplicate or avoid the experience, we categorize them into little boxes or drawers that help us make sense of them by relating them to previous experiences and giving us a sense of continuity in our lives so we don't go insane.

Answer 3

The main sorts of experiences that we have everyday without fail are pain and loss, everything else comes in between!

Answer 4

Mostly boredom, all of a sudden...

You gonna ask anything worth philosophically answering?
Why not go into the hobbies section instead

Answer 5

thats hard to answer cause it makes no sense but i can say that most of the time people just experience the same thing every day, without trying to.

Answer 6

First of all I think personal experience leads to all others whether they be spiritual or just personal situations that can catapult you into another place entirely that can change you forever.

Answer 7

Eating, Sleeping, Working and Sex

Answer 8

Sight, taste, touch, smell, sound, and oh yes, transcendental

Answer 9

Taste, love, greed.

Mostly taste. (I must be getting hungary)

Answer 10

death and loss, happiness, despair, love, friendship, shock, surprise and embarrasment