Perhaps something else is also going on in the moments we associate with perezhivanie. Perhaps actors experience what jazz musicians feel during a great solo, or what writers feel when the words seem to really flow out of them. Perhaps what they are experiencing is what Stanislavski was originally trying to find: inspiration. The feeling of being inspired is difficult to quantify, and isn’t limited to the arts. Athletes talk about being in the zone, or really seeing the ball, those moments when the world drops away and they reach some previously undiscovered level of their abilities.
