To be swept away by that transporting swell of feeling that comes with love, sex, gods, the great outdoors and sometimes, though not often enough, the movies.
Light and shadow became his vehicle for interpreting the human personality, establishing focus, creating mood and feeling, and transporting the viewer beyond the tangible world.
Visitors can be forgiven for feeling transported in time with guides in period clothing moving about the property.
The idea of turning off a state road in Massachusetts and feeling transported to Japan seemed unrealistic.
I remember reading From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler and reading about these two kids that stay overnight at the Met in New York and thinking, oh my God, these two kids are in the city just across the bridge that I'm too young to get to, that there's this whole other world that's magical, and I remember thinking how I loved feeling transported.
An hour spent on the floor interviewing Dr. Hossaini and his colleagues (who all spend time at the show every day and "very much want to discuss the work" with visitors, he told me later) left me feeling transported back to 1969, when animated discussions of issues of cosmic import could go on all night on similarly unadorned floors, under the influence of slightly different stimulation.
I think it's because we felt transported -- a feeling we'd never associated with learning and knowledge.
The moment of pulling the goggles over your face and feeling transported to a completely different location sounds like fiction, which is perhaps why it's captured the imaginations of so many artists.
While we sit in the dark for a couple of hours, feeling transported to another world, another culture, or simply another way of looking at life, we heal something that feels wrong in our own lives, cure a void that only fills up when the lights go down and the movie comes on.
I've had many a panic attack in the driver's seat while transporting another person, when the feelings of fear and suffocation overwhelmed me.
