I love dancing. The other day I was saying on here how when you go to the cinema, as long as the film you see is above a certain, really quite low, standard, then the dark room and the huge screen can really take you out of yourself - for me it's one of the rare times when you can be awake and outside of yourself. One is absorbed into some other place where for a short time one can totally forget life's pettiness and its trivial problems such as bills etc
It's a very basic and cheap "other world" you access here, I'm making no grandiose claims. It's not enlightenment, it's not the equivalent of that rejection of and rising above the material world that a monk or philosopher can achieve (apparently) by a lifetime of self study, deprivation and so on... but given that what I am talking about is almost instantly available to pretty much anyone at a low price and with almost no demands (in terms of money or time or effort etc) made of the person seeking this escape, it's not bad.
And I think that I said that playing sport is another way to this bargain basement version of nirvana. For the hour you're chasing that ball around you're only in that moment, all else is gone.
But I didn't mention dancing, and I should have done cos that's the other obvious one. Maybe the main one. That's what I was trying to get at in the Neon Screams thread - all the claims he makes (in the intro I mean) may be true and it may very well be that dance music is dead and that the new paradigm is autotune and vocal fx and so on and so forth. But, and it's a big but for me, this new paradigm comes without this built in thing which takes you to a budget version of transcendental contentment... cheapo paradise.
Cos those things I listed above are really the only paradises I'm ever likely to get into it, and so being locked out of - or in fact having to face the idea that The Future has completely removed - one of the extant types is not something I'll accept until I absolutely have to. And when I do I won't pretend to like it.
For the sake of completeness I should probably also mention sex as one of the other times where you can completely become in the moment like this. Perhaps there are some things I've forgotten, perhaps other people have other things that I don't, maybe some people - better people than I am - have trained themselves, or simply instinctively always knew how, to be in that moment all the time. But for me those simple and easily accessible moments of pure being boil down to; going to the cinema, playing sport, sex and dancing. And right now I feel like dancing is the best.