Quotes About Immersion

virtual katabasis.

But the easiest way to live in the moment is to put yourself in a situation where there's no other choice.

I've gotten really good at pulling the veil down," says Way, "at camouflaging reality, locking out my conscious mind and riding my focus into the zone.

Companionship drives focus into the now

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

With acting, it's like becoming another person. I think that's neat, especially when you totally forget. If you totally forget, which I love to do, that's when it's magic.

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

[Sometimes] I sit in front of my [gaming] console with my headphones on and I play. I love that. It's a nice form of escapism.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.

I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.

Love is the water of life, jump into this water.

I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.

Much more of our sanity than we commonly realize is a consequence of our fortunate immersion in a social community.

We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.

Perspektiiviä pitäisi voida nauttia suonensisäisesti.

Game worlds are much more than the sum of the pictures and sounds that portray them. A game world can have a culture, an aesthetic, a set of moral values,

To someone who's playing a game for the first time, the world is vital to creating and sustaining her interest. The other purpose of a game's world is to sell the game in the first place. It's not the game's mechanics that make a customer pick up a box in a store but the fantasy it offers: who she'll be, where she'll be, and what she'll be doing there if she plays that game. The