Sentences with phrase «illusion of feeling»

The term phantom limb describes the illusion of feeling a body part when the actual...
The term phantom limb describes the illusion of feeling a body part when the actual limb is missing, and the works in this exhibition speak to the felt presence of the body released from a representation of the figure.
The term phantom limb describes the illusion of feeling a body part when the actual -LSB-...]
Drinking water can create a lasting illusion of feeling full, and keep you from doing or eating something you'll regret later.

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But as the student survivors have chosen to voice their support for gun control and criticize Trump's lack of action, he's apparently now feeling the pressure to at least give the illusion that he takes the situation seriously.
Thrown back on our own resources we feel betrayed, lonely, and isolated We become homo economicus and are stripped of our self - imposed illusions about the future.
There one feels the controlling sense of the misfortune of man's self - conscious existence, its endless transmigrations, vain illusions, and insatiable desires.
Your Auden quote resonates with how I feel about illusion... I hope you don't mind, But some musing I wrote a couple of days ago from an almost 30 year journey is about the cross and illusion...
Futhermore, where experience is mixed, as with our experience of the world's good and evil, a priori reasoning can be of considerable importance in supporting our confidence that some supposed «felt concrete redemption is no illusion but an authentic experience of what really is (and perhaps even must be) the case.
when i see posts like these — i automatically skip past them — like — if i read them i will somehow be absorbed into the negativity of some evil travesty of comaparison between a vast illusion of delusionary emotional strife over something that makes no sense unless you put yourself into this weird evil feeling trance of blind confusion and negative understand — i don't know — it's a weird a feeling though — tried to read it — just to see if that feeling had changed any on this post — and it hadn't — just thought i'd share that...
Yet when the mind is not confused by utopian illusions it is not difficult to recognize genuine achievements of justice and to feel under obligation to defend them against the threats of tyranny and the negation of justice.
The illusion of the conviction of the Holy Spirit... which is really an emotional response to something being very wrong and the turmoil experienced when these feelings contradict all you've been taught by the church and its Pastor, who has set him / herself up as the supreme anointed authority under God and is due utmost and unquestionable respect.
We're given this illusion of being heard and accepted, lending us the false perception of feeling connected.
Think of the feeling that people have of spiritual presences as a similar illusion, except that very few people are actually aware that it is one.
A fluid which for a time can banish disappointment, frustration, and feelings of inadequacy, which can give feelings of self - confidence and the illusion of strength has tremendous appeal, an appeal which those who seek a better way must take into account.
For instance, the wife is working with the illusion that she was «no longer felt safe or loved» and «was suddenly bombarded with lies» when she found out that the behavior of her husband was not that of her understanding of their unspoken rules.
Sometimes I feel like I'm facing insurmountable odds with nothing between me and a grizzly outcome but an illusion of success, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing that can stop me, because I hold everything I need to succeed within me — no matter what things look like on the outside.
I guess the ruins of the roman emperior in Biblical time, the actual corpses and burial places of Biblical people, and the places you can see and feel with your own feet and hands, Iserial and Persia, is all an illusion and made up by man.
I do not to say that we do not feel pain from the illusion of loneliness, we very well do, but, (and I think this is also another important note) our sufferings are not useless or in vain unless we choose to make them so.
I feel more and more strongly that I must devote the rest of my life to trying to dispel this illusion
As Hasker emphasizes, his free will version of traditional theism differs from the classical version, held by Augustine, Thomas, Luther, and Calvin, precisely on this point — that this classical version held that all of our feelings, thoughts, and actions are in reality wholly determined by God, so that we have freedom only in a compatibilist sense — or, otherwise stated, that our feeling of freedom is an illusion.
While Spitzer's regret or half regret for the destruction of the old belief in world harmony faded, as no illusion could long keep his allegiance, he surely preserved his aesthetic admiration for the old world - picture, his historical interest in understanding it and his feeling for its survivals in our time and in our languages.
We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody.
That is why marital vows feel somewhat like an illusion and create an aura of permanence when there is none.
Bedrails give children the illusion of the «walls» they had when they were in the crib and can feel cozy for little ones making the transition.
Since graduation, I have felt the illusion of time being paused, as I am in - between «the last thing I did» and «what's next.»
I write publicly as a personal sacrifice — of privacy, of the illusion of protection — in order to help other loss moms feel less alone in what can feel like the lonely of the lonely, the lost of the lost.
It is a profound illusion to postulate that a European feeling of belonging could supplant regional and, even more so, national variants of communitarianism built largely in a top - down manner over centuries and still deeply anchored in society.
We all feel the forward march of time, but the laws of physics tell us it is an illusion.
They also asked about another central aspect of the rubber - hand illusion — the feeling that the non-visible real hand actually moves towards the rubber hand («proprioceptive drift»).
Earlier this year in Time magazine, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker declared that «the intuitive feeling we have that there's an executive «I» that sits in a control room of our brain, scanning the screens of the senses and pushing the buttons of the muscles, is an illusion
When the controllers» vibration gives the illusion of realistic, localized touch, users are unsettled and become less immersed — unless they can see what's causing that feeling, such as a virtual marble bumping into a virtual stick.
Astonishingly, many people who perform this «Aristotle illusion» maneuver report a distinct feeling of having two noses!
Ask the person to explain what they know: People who feel sure of their position set a high bar for contrary evidence, Ditto says, but often such confidence stems from a misperception that they know more than they actually do, a phenomenon researchers call the illusion of explanatory depth.
Celebrations were something to look forward to; they gave a feeling of unity and the brief illusion of being at home.
Researchers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago are using the rubber hand illusion to teach amputees to feel artificial limbs as their own.
Both philosophers have participated over the last several years in an EU project on «Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-Embodiment» (VERE) with a focus on illusions of embodiment, in which one has the feeling of owning and controlling a body that is not one's own, such as an avatar in VR.
But in 1998, University of Pittsburgh psychiatrists Matthew Botvinick and Jonathan Cohen conducted the now - classic «rubber - hand illusion,» which showed the brain could feel ownership of a body part that was not truly its own.
The authors say: «Celebrations were something to look forward to; they gave a feeling of unity and the brief illusion of being at home... Perhaps this emphasis on religious observance was less a sign of innate piety than an intuitive psychological insight on the part of the more successful leaders.»
The size - weight illusion, which affects about 98 per cent of people, causes them to experience smaller objects as feeling heavier than larger objects of the same weight.
What is more, touching the shell produces a second illusion: observers report that their finger somehow feels shorter, as if to compensate for the illusory bottom volume of the ball.
These painful feelings must surface in your life, so they can be seen for what they are — the illusion of your ego, and the misconception that you are not love.
Everything that I feel like I'm «depriving myself of», an illusion that feels very real in those moments.
It is definitely an illusion though, because I feel if you could see the sides of my waist, I would look like a belt around a pumpkin!
I feel like bloggers always try to give off the illusion that «we woke up like this», but the real deal is that a lot of us have to work ahead — sometimes even up to month ahead of time.
I immediately felt taller after wearing a pair of heels and I learned that they are most flattering when the waist is tied to give the illusion of looking taller and slimmer.
I felt very student - y wearing this outfit, I think it was the combination of the satchel and boots but also slightly like a cowgirl, all I needed was a hat to complete the illusion...
It is definitely an illusion though because I feel if you could see the sides of my waist it would look like a belt around a pumpkin.
It gives the illusion of a turtleneck (which is also a basic everyone needs in their wardrobe) without feeling stuffy.
I know it also looks like I might fall out of the dress, But there are several illusion panels... so I actually felt very secure.
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