EXPERIENCE AND REALITY
Experience is not reality. Reality cannot be experienced. It is. If the experiencer thinks he experiences reality, then he knows only illusion. All knowledge of reality is illusion. Knowledge or experience must cease for the being of reality: experience cannot meet reality. Experience shapes knowledge, and knowledge bends experience. They must both cease for reality to be.
J. Krishnamurti
From Commentaries on Living Series 1
Reality is not experienced. The experiencer is just an invention, imagination, a superproduct of thought.
There are many synonyms of the term "experience", for example experience means the same as: "consciousness", "knowledge", "memory" or "thought".