I'm sitting in my ole easy chair right now, a stick of juniper incense is burning in the holder behind me, and I begin to type a poem meant to capture my mood...
Worked up, a bit
Just gave a talk and had trouble articulating a point
Felt a bit uncomfortable
Traced the feeling back to defense of ego
In Buddhist psychology there are five skandhas.
Form, Feeling, Perception, Mental Formation, and Consciousness.
Form is the barest glimmer of structure.
Feeling is a sensation like heat or discomfort.
Perception begins to form judgments of desirable or undesirable.
Mental Formations are macroscopic thoughts.
Consciousness is the fundamental quality of awareness.
I would say that the discomfort that arose as I was talking was a feeling, a kind of tone, certainly not composed of gross verbalized thoughts, rooted in a judgment of the way the talk was going. I guess it's a little bit like a "growing sense of alarm," when you, for example, you wander into an unsafe neighborhood. There's this gradual buildup of a background feeling which informs the tenor of your thoughts, but which itself is not a word-level thought.
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