Why did witnesses remark that Sidney Rigdon was exhausted after seeing the vision of D&C 76 whereas Joseph Smith wasn’t?

By the time Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon received the vision of D&C 76, Joseph had already seen and experienced multiple visions and experiences (and in many of these cases he reported being exhausted). 

Philo Dibble recorded the following:

Joseph sat firmly and calmly all the time in the midst of a magnificent glory, but Sidney sat limp and pale, apparently as limber as a rag, observing which, Joseph remarked, smilingly, ‘Sidney is not used to it as I am.’

– Elder Philo Dibble, “Recollections of the Prophet Joseph Smith,” Juvenile Instructor 27, no. 10 (1892): 304

Why was Sidney limp and pale but Joseph sat firmly? Why would Philo Dibble say this if the vision was fake?

See:

• Book of Mormon Central – Why Are People Exhausted by Powerful Spiritual Experiences?

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