Experience is your remembered personal narrative.
You may perceive something but it does not really register as something you remember.
As I see it perception must enter into the “global workspace”[1] and this resonance must extend to the temporal lobe/hippocampus area to register to be part of your personal narrative - something you can report back later as having experienced.
The part of the “loop of consciousness” described below that extends through the temporal lobe is the bit that you remember as a reportable thing - your experience:
[1] https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ahyvarin/teaching/niseminar4/Dehaene_GlobalNeuronalWorkspace.pdf
Global workspace theory - Wikipedia