[CaptainChick]

1) When you talk about feelings/emotions, how do you experience them?

I experience/observe life from a passionate perspective, one in which my mental self and my emotional self are highly infused, and integrated with each other. In my world, most complex/novel stimuli I sense evoke a strong emotional response. I often think I have a strange type of synesthesia where all things experienced/perceived/conceived, both animate and inanimate in nature, abstract and concrete in form, are processed simultaneously along with their "emotional component/counterparts". Every thing I perceive/imagine, has, and is accompanied by, an emotional component, that of which consists of either an aura of good-ness or bad-ness (* it should be noted that neutral things are processed at the subconscious level, and therefore, in regards to my attention, largely go unnoticed).

Experience has led me to believe that something with a good-ness aura is usually not only internally consistent, but more often than not, it proves to also be an important component to an existing, transcendent, external source/medium/pathway, whereas something with a bad-ness aura, is usually either internally inconsistent, or in and of itself, embodies an inconsistent/inappropriate/potentially-malignant part/component to that existing, transcendent, external source/medium/pathway for which it plays a role. (Oy vey, this must make no sense to anyone else but me!!!)

All in all, my feelings act as my guide both in social and intellectual pursuits. Because my feeling self is able to process information at a much faster rate than my thinking self can, it has therefore been common for me to "feel the way", before I "know the way", when I've been confronted with unfamiliar things, i.e. novel data.