The mystery of qualia

It's not like anything to experience a color.
In fact, it is like everything.
The experience of experiencing something is really the only experience. Perception is the universal placeholder, for all the undefinable and indescribable knowledge.

There still is something unique and different in each experience. But it's "compressed" information; meaning a bunch of chaotic and unorganized associations between known things. This provisional information should really be processed and organized. Then it will no longer evoke feelings, any more than an equation or encyclopedia entry.

Even if they are never organized, feelings contain the most important and deep information about reality. Too bad most of this data will be lost forever, until someone else rediscovers it.
One example is what the reaction to seeing the future would be, if we could use a time machine to pick up someone from the past.
That reaction would be more complicated and harder to predict than the future itself.