Words

Sometimes our verbal designations turn
nothing
into something.

What came first, the word or the experience? Did they happen at the same time?

Surely the only occasion for simultaneously relating a word with an experience is after that word has been learned, efficiently programmed into the responder's mind.
What if it is a new word?

In this, and most other circumstances, even if the responder's creative mind comes up with a word very quickly, the word still exists as a response to an experience (imagined or real).

When we began to assign words to particular experiences, did we then begin to narrow our life's focus; to stifle our creativity for response, focusing more on classification than the experience?

Are there instances in which our words create an experience?