A glass of wine, on the other hand, creates a pleasurable internal flow that makes the less pleasant external flow easier to manage.
The game's ever-expanding scope and regular demands for micro-managing resources create an enthralling parallax effect that can keep devoted players dosed, for hours, on the pleasurable sense of immersion that the psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi calls "flow".
Manic symptoms consist of feelings of inflated self-esteem or grandiosity, a decreased need for sleep, unusual loquacity, an unconnected flow of ideas, distractibility, or excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences, such as buying sprees or sexual indiscretions.
I'm not sure what that amounts to – he seems to flirt with notions of reincarnation and a kind of transcendental consciousness – but it allows him to flow freely into imaginary futures and pasts, which is highly pleasurable for the reader.
You can even enter flow -- a very calm, focused state that is so pleasurable it's worth doing for its own sake, regardless of the activity.
This is consistent with Blood and Zatorre's results that the intensity of the chills ratings is positively correlated with the degree of blood flow to the ventral striatum, an area implicated in processing pleasurable experiences in response to reward [49] [51].
And the gamma brain wave state is as pleasurable as it is powerful: The neurochemical dopamine, the fuel of the brain's reward circuitry, flows freely when gamma waves prevail.
To me, dieting feels like the antithesis of what food should be, a pleasurable experience to be savoured and enjoyed, preferably around a table full of people with great conversation and flowing wine.
Pleasurable physical intimacies followed.
