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> I know it was nasty, and I'm certainly going to avoid it, but when I'm not actually in pain, I cannot summon up even a shadow of a sensation of what the pain
by gnaritas 10y ago
> I know it was nasty, and I'm certainly going to avoid it, but when I'm not actually in pain, I cannot summon up even a shadow of a sensation of what the pain itself was actually like.
That's physical pain, but if you try that with emotional pain I'll be you can feel it just fine and quite literally re-live it.
- AgentME 10y agoI think that's more that you can literally re-inflict emotional pain by thinking about it, rather than that you're just remembering the pain itself.