(12) In many unpleasant feelings, where there was no specific
localization possible, the "stiffening tendency of hardening one's self
to a necessary experience" was frequently reported. In the case of
other states of undifferentiated pleasure a "consenting bending forward
of the whole body" was often detected.
(13) Many stimulations seem to demand that one draw one's self erect,
square the shoulders, and "assume the attitude of alertness."
(14) Certain colors for almost every subject independently hint at
sea-sickness. Others, as noted above, report the incipient suggestion
of nausea in the digestive tract. Indeed, abdominal references are
frequently reported by most of the subjects. The abdominal muscles
become "eased up," or again there is a "sucking-in of the belly."
(15) The feeling of "being natural," of regularity, a universally
popular feeling, is described as a pleasant relief from all tensions
and habitual inhibitions, or a dropping of one's characteristic
muscular tonicity.
(16) Other stimulations still, particularly certain delicate odors, for
men, subjects C and E for example, seem to suggest what they call the
"childish play impulse." They are called "simple, foolish, childish
pleasures," ignored in ordinary life. They are slightly pleasantly
irritating, and merely make one wish to do something. It is pure
bodily restlessness, a general kinæsthetic enjoyment. Three subjects,
especially, find here the frequent twitchings in the calves of the
legs, in the knee-cap, and the more decided innervations which contract
the tendons of the thighs and hips.
(17) Subject I frequently detected sensations of contraction in the
tensor tympani connected with the pleasure derived from high tones.
Others referred feelings for tones partly to the regions of the ears.
(18) The kinds of facial references are numerous. General contraction
or expansion around the eyes, forehead, temples, sometimes to the whole
head, and quite frequently it seemed as if the feeling referred to the
very inside of the eyeball, to the iris and accommodation movements.
(19) Subjects A, D, F, and K noted specific incipient tendencies to
smile, to smooth the brow, and to "unbend the face" as characteristic
descriptions of certain oft-repeated experiences.
(20) Introspections from subjects F and G quite constantly revealed
articulatory impulses vividly accompanying the feelings for many colors
and forms.
(21) A scowl and puckering of the lips was descriptive of the attitude
taken toward some unpleasant situations.
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