ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how the features of the Descriptive Experience (DES) method are designed to address the challenges inherent in the task of obtaining high-fidelity apprehensions of inner experience. It aims to stabilize inner experience in memory long enough to observe it and explains left with the issue of the reporting of the pristine inner experiences. The chapter looks at the mercy of the subjects’ motivation to provide high-fidelity accounts of their inherently personal, private inner experience. The DES method should be understood as providing the possibility of obtaining high-fidelity apprehensions of the inner experience. Another important aspect of the initial instructions to DES subjects is that they are asked to serve as co-investigators in the exploration of their inner experience and, as such, they have equal control over the process. One can easily imagine a novice and well-intentioned but nonetheless insufficient application of the DES procedures.
