Question!

[conuly]

I had come up with this post last night, and then after I forgot it my philosophy class reminded me of it.

How do you know what you're feeling? What does it feel like? Do you think your physical responses to emotions are like other people's? Bonus question: Do you think it's possible that what you see as green, other people see as red? Or some color you can't see? I used to think that.

Comments

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

I think I know what I'm feeling by comparison. If I compare one mood to something I've felt before, I can know it's more positive (ie. happy, giddy, excited) or negative (ie. depressed, sad, angry), and then kinda compare those moods to figure out what aspects it has. Like a negative mood could be somewhere on the sad side or on the angry side, so I know if I'm depressed or pissed feeling, and then just go with a word that somewhat describes it. I guess that's how it works somewhat, but not sure because I tend to go through so many emotions at once that it's hard to pin just one down (like when I need to use the mood function when updating!).

I've used to think about things like that about colors too. I had a bf that was color blind, and that was the first time I'd heard of the idea, so it kinda threw me for a loop and made me question things.