Sensory life, where it is understood that thoughts and feelings and every kind of inner and bodily sensation are included as special forms, is what is going on all the time. To speak of it as all of life is to abstract from fully embodied waking existence, but it is not easy to say precisely what has been abstracted away. It is a particular way of framing experience which emphasises its presentness and salience, and when insisted upon leads to a special quality of submersion and melting, a sort of synaesthesic or polyphonic embrace. Thought and feeling seen in this way lose the urgent leading function which arises from their participation in meaning and ideality and seem to float free. The aspect revealed by the sensory can be called ocean-ising, to stress the ability of sensory modes when focussed on in their mere present arisal to suggest, if not to assume, an oceanic quality. Some senses are more easily oceanised in this way than others - sight, hearing and smell. Taste and touch seem more difficuly because they are generally linked to specific kinds of occasions, eating, savouring, tasting, feeling, palpating, caressing, processes which are more or less voluntary and which have deep emotional and relational roots