narcosis
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“The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has.… Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
Part of the reason lies in the challenge, another in how deep dives change the chemistry in the brain, creating nitrogen narcosis or a “rapture of the deep” that freedivers describe in lyrical terms.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2020
Using a helium-oxygen mixture avoids the disoriented mental state known as nitrogen narcosis, the so-called rapture of the deep.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Well, The Shape Of Water is a film which has beguiled everyone who has seen it: and what it certainly has to offer is pure artistry and pure narcosis.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2018
After the narcosis of that repast the spirit falls into a softer mood, eager only to be amused.
From The Haunted Bookshop by Morley, Christopher
