Experience in the sense of ongoing experiencing is to be distinguished from consciousness or awareness as these being the local form of what it is the global form of. You might say that experience is consciousness together with all of the context which makes it possible for it to be your consciousness. Experience is uniform throughout and without a subject - even if you sometimes incorrectly invoke an experiencer - as that in which consciousness and its subject arises. That's why it is also not quite right to speak of the content of experience since there is no boundary to it, but also not entirely wrong since it is richly itself, has distinctive suchness. Being applies to experience only to consciousness as a part of experience. Looked at externally consciousness seems to be an attribute of something that behaves. As desire, and all emotions, feelings, sense of life, are modalities of desire, must consciously desire. The desire ascribed to something that acts desiringly is only in the observer. So you can only desire when you know you desire. Subjectively there cannot be unconscious desire, so the insistence of desire is the insistence of consciousness, and this can only be the being of experience. This isn't clear, just reaching for an intuition through a knot of slippery words.