The Hallucination of Perception

Sometimes we're enticed by a minor pleasure but actually masks a great suffering. In this hallucination of perception taking what is suffering to be happiness very often we're deluded into thinking that wanting itself is happiness. Have you ever had the experience? I've noticed it at different times than myself. Sometimes of getting an idea in our minds that there's something that we just must have or must do. The almost obsessive quality that drives us until we either get it or at some point maybe it goes away. And so, until the desire finally does go away, and if we're paying attention, do you know that moment of relief? It's like being let out of the grip of something