The Viscera Don't Lie: Everything But "It"

I am, from time to time, plagued by the thought that I might trapped by my experiences. Despite my knowledge, though mostly secondary, of what many things are like, I cannot say that I have any sensory data on them. I know that sounds very clinical, and that my intuition and sensory memory of what many other things are like provides baseline or comparative information, but it is absolutely true for all the reasons that support the general argument that there is no substitute for experience.

I have had much, perhaps too much, experience, or perhaps time, in the last week that leads me to believe that familiarity, meaning experience with, is a prerequisite for comparison. I know this runs contrary to the very real growth of experience. People do new things all the time. I myself guess and/or stumble into new experiences everyday. On the contrary, I rely on my sense for "what it has been and therefore must be like" to answer questions related to:

-Problem Solving
-All Forms of Measurement
-Romance
-The Psychedelic
-Respect
-Religion

I think there is a very distinct etching upon your neural pathways, an imprinting, as it were, that guides your ability to manage things on an ongoing basis. The compounding computation and live management of many things requires the transcendence of certain things from an active "doing" to a passive "being". This may appear over-analyzed. I would think that you could relate. I could be wrong.

The notion that they might not be universal lessens my respect for others' experiences and forces me to take an offensive, as opposed to defensive, by which I mean conforming and adapting, mindset. I find this both saddening, as it decreases the ways in which I can relate to my fellow (wo)man, and gladdening, as it justifies my desire to do as I please and impose, both subtly and explicitly.