Retroactive Interpretation

[matt_arnold]

Have there been times in your life when you experienced an emotion due to circumstances you were already in, and then someone spoke to you, and you retroactively perceived the words as the cause of that emotion? For examples

Comments

[amanda_lodden]

Frequently.

[selki]

Not that, exactly. Certainly mood has influenced my interpretation of the words spoken which may or may not have anything to do with the circs/mood. In those cases, I've been glad when I was able to figure out the mood influenced the interpretation.

[the_leewit]

I agree with Selki. I have not noticed myself attributing feelings that were already there to stuff people have said (that is what you were saying, yes?), but if I am hungry, physically ill, or very tired, it is very easy for me to slip into paranoia and ill interpretations of innocent words