The Chain of Experience

Experience is the first layer of the chain.
It is the moment where something occurs before interpretation, meaning, or emotion takes shape.

This is the level of:

• sensation

• event

• circumstance

• interaction

• stimulus

• the observable movement of life

Experience enters the chain like this:

Cause → Effect → Awareness

At this stage, the chain is pure.
It has not yet been filtered through history, story, or identity.

Experience is raw data — the world touching your nervous system.

But because humans rarely meet experience without interpretation,
most people never encounter experience directly.
They encounter the interpretation of experience.

Coherent chains allow you to feel the moment as it is.
Distorted chains convert experience into something else before you consciously register it.

This is how distortion alters reality:

• you’re not experiencing what happened

• you’re experiencing what the chain made of what happened

Experience is the input.
The chain determines the output.

See Also

• Emotional Feedback

• Interpretation

• Structural Awareness

• Coherence

• Distortion