The scent is scientifically proven to promote relaxation, and the repetition and mindlessness of ironing will soothe you.
The crowd-intoxicated individual escapes from responsibility, intelligence and morality into a kind of frantic, animal mindlessness.
These autopilot moments are what Harvard's Ellen Langer calls mindlessness-times when you're so lost in your thoughts that you aren't aware of your present experience.
While critics would be quick to point out a battle droid's mindlessness as a fault, the proponents of the mechanized soldiers would counter that it is instead a virtue.
It would fill me with a feeling, a feeling I later tried to dupicate with alcohol and finally found again with Clare, a feeling of unity, oblivion, mindlessness in the best sense of the word.