This is a deep meta question; not the response you give others. When you ask yourself, “how do I feel,” is that answer you synthesize, the answer you draw from the edge of your conscious and unconscious self; is this answer a reference to the immediately preceding past of your inner experience, or is the answer from some self aware inner entity that exists in the ever changing experience of right now?

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    3 months ago

    All of the above. In order to get a more accurate answer, I think it’s beneficial to compare superficial ego observation with what you have access to of your Self.

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    3 months ago

    Reading How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barret and A Liberated Mind by Steven Hayes will answer your question. More broadly, emotion construction theory and relational frame theory will answer your question.

    Self awareness is just a set of relational frames. It is a building, a palace if you will, made out of blocks of thoughts and relational frames. Feelings are that too. You can use self-awareness to examine feelings (e.g. “I am sad that I failed”). However, you can also create emotions based on your sense of self (“I failed, and therefore I am sad”).

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    3 months ago

    How do I feel?

    Usually with my fingers :)

    But more seriously, there are depths to how I feel. An easy example of this is how I feel in a moment vs how I feel about my life in general. There are also aspect of my life that I may be deeply unhappy about whilst feeling generally good about my life as a whole.

    Especially over recent years, as relationships in my life have grown more complex, I’ve really started to appreciate how I can have two feelings about the same thing at the same time.