Is realizing the same as experiencing?

[anagogy]

I'm not big on semantics, but I would say you experience unity as love, acceptance, appreciation, joy, and other equivalent and similar approximations of positivity. But to "realize" unity, is to go beyond experiencing, and become it by dissolving the illusions that seemingly camoflauge it.

One is from the outside looking in, and the other is from the inside looking out.

To "realize unity" the experiencer has to be trancended altogether, because oneness is not an "experience", but instead, goes beyond "experiencer" and "experienced" (mind and matter), and is just "experiencingness" or "beingness".