It is an inescapable fact that experiencing and the experience are two incommensurable components of ongoing experience; experiencing cannot experience experiencing and experience never shows its being-experienced. In spite of this both a as real as it gets, only the real of the experiencing is somehow prior and more vital that that of the experience, although, since it is absent from experience, always overshadowed by it, if not even doubtful, relatively speaking. You can't get rid of the experiencing, neither can you experience it, so at best you can maintain it in a sort of peripheral awareness. This maintenance has a calming, soothing effect on the experience which otherwise tends to either run wild or to dull down into an uneasy homogeneity. Other than that it is not clear if there is any greater value in either one, value being something else that belongs for the most part in experience, one of its many fascinations, and hence is largely absent from experiencing, which is in fact rather disinterested and empty.