The "public self" is what shared with others and is the image you attempt to project (although it might be quite different than how that image is received).This is where you might say to yourself, “Oh, this apple is the color red and I know that based on my past experiences of being told that this color is considered ‘red’ and my favorite kind of apples are red delicious.” In other words, this is where your immediate experiences are being translated into linguistic representations that justify what is going on and why. It is the part that reflects on those sensations and emotions and tries to make sense of them based on your own personal history of experiences and your worldview. This is the self-reflective part of your consciousness where you narrate those experiences residing in your experiential self. The “private self” is short for the private self-consciousness system.No one else can see your experience of the color red! Nobody else will ever directly experience your first person experiences and you will never directly experience anyone else’s experiential self. A mind-boggling part of the experiential self is that only you can ever truly know your experiential self.
Basically, this “self” comprises everything you experience in the here-and-now, “felt sense” of being. The “experiential self” is the part of your consciousness that is receiving raw sensations (both from the environment and your body), perceptual experiences, emotions, drives and imagined scenarios.