lose oneself in

Idioms  

1. Become deeply absorbed or involved in, as in Doctors are notorious for losing themselves in their work. This expression alludes to becoming so absorbed as to forget oneself. [c. 1600]

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Example Sentences

His own rendition, like so many of his films, is verdant and meditative, a vampire movie to lose oneself in, or at least to bathe in as you contemplate the story’s metaphysical layers.

From Los Angeles Times

The effect is slightly disorienting in a good way, making it easy to lose oneself in the fields of Lagerfeldiana.

From New York Times

The composer Reinhold Friedl, who directs the Berlin-based contemporary music ensemble zeitkratzer, remembered his discovery of Xenakis in the mid-1980s: “Xenakis has been discovered — liberation! To lose oneself in the sound was intoxicating. He was a freedom fighter against the bourgeois distinction of new music.”

From New York Times

The variations become worlds to lose oneself in, less taut dramas than engulfing studies in texture and sound, an effect that may well be amplified when he plays the work in the intimate Weill Recital Hall.

From New York Times

That experience — of being free to lose oneself in aimless reverie — is built into Owens’ tables.

From Los Angeles Times