Lived experience
In qualitative phenomenological research, lived experience (German: Erlebnis) "took on the connotation of ‘lived’ non-conceptualized, and sometimes ineffable experience, akin to the stream of qualia of some theorists of consiousness[, which] can be contrasted with [experience, (German: Erfahrung)], which denotes more ordinary perception of interpreted fact." It is a category of qualitative research together with those that focus on society and culture and those that focus on language and communication. The term has been increasingly used in qualitative research as a form of evidence and source of knowledge.