When you engages in bathing, you are simply immersing yourself in the
miraculous thing that is a
bath.
The experience of bathing's nature is largely dependant on three things.
The the water
temperature and your
mindset are two of the
variables. If you are
revved up for a good
think and the water
temperature is spectacularly hot, bathing can be a
transcendental experience in a most literal sense.
Time can cease to matter.
Space can cease to matter. All you feel is the wonderfully hot water
caressing your
skin, all you think are the most
beautiful and
brilliant thoughts there ever were.
Love can well up in your
breast for all of
creation, and every problem in all the world is
soluble. Of course, when you ultimately emerge from the
bath (and it can easily be five or six
hours later), all of this will pass you by fairly quickly. Generally, all you are left with is a somewhat more
relaxed soul, maybe a good idea or two if you were able to hold on, and a shock that permeates your
body when you look at the
clock, see the time, and
scream, "Jesus! I just spend six hours in the
bath!" If you are not
revved up for a good
think and the water is spectacularly hot, you probably won't undergo a very
transcendental experience at all. In fact, it might simply be a very unpleasent event that elicits a cry of, "Jesus, that is really freaking hot!" If the water is cold and you are
revved up for a good
think, very little may come of it, since blue
lips and quivering
limbs are not very conducive to
thinking. Likewise, if you are not
revved up for a good think and you use cold water, very little will come of it. In fact, cold water is mostly only good for
freaking you in back into
existance after some kind of
freak out (whether it be from
fear, bad
ketchup, or just
horniness).
And as for the third
variable. . .well, that's the contents of the
bathtub (e.g.
milk,
watermelon juice,
hot chocolate, etc.)