An impulsion is like an impulse, but comprised of a more complex interlacing of forces. As the energies thus involved reinforce the original impulsion, this operates more circumspectly with insight into end and method. Such is the outline of every experience that is clothed with meaning. As this description of the development of an experience proceeds we can see both the underlying naturalism as well as the great descriptive acuity and precision of it. An experience begins with a need.
Resistance gives rise to re-flection.
We look to our resources, skills we have, techniques we have employed in the past, special abilities that we might possess that might be brought to bear in overcoming this resistance in order to achieve the satisfaction of our need. Suddenly the need itself begins to develop associations, connections with other past needs, a narrative develops around the need. An infant s squall becomes a quest. Our experience gets clothed in meaning. Dewey speaks of this as a transformation, a transformation of energy into thoughtful action.