In accepted understanding the word describes a profound change in both psychological attention and physiological condition.
In plainer language your conscious drifts off somewhere and certain predictable and observable changes happen to your body. Often, although by no means always, including relaxation.
The thing to remember is that this is an induced state brought on as a reaction to suggestion. So trance is not hypnosis, just a symptom of it.
One thing is certain, Hypnotically induced 'trance' has no real comparison in our experience other than when we are experiencing times of overwhelming emotion.
Hypnotic trance certainly has nothing to do with the distraction experienced in daydreaming, the amnesia after traveling a familiar route or the disassociation we feel when getting lost in a good book.
Hypnotic trance certainly has nothing to do with the distraction experienced in daydreaming, the amnesia after traveling a familiar route or the disassociation we feel when getting lost in a good book.
In plainer language your conscious drifts off somewhere and certain predictable and observable changes happen to your body. Often, although by no means always, including relaxation.
The thing to remember is that this is an induced state brought on as a reaction to suggestion. So trance is not hypnosis, just a symptom of it.
One thing is certain, Hypnotically induced 'trance' has no real comparison in our experience other than when we are experiencing times of overwhelming emotion.
Hypnotic trance certainly has nothing to do with the distraction experienced in daydreaming, the amnesia after traveling a familiar route or the disassociation we feel when getting lost in a good book.
Hypnotic trance certainly has nothing to do with the distraction experienced in daydreaming, the amnesia after traveling a familiar route or the disassociation we feel when getting lost in a good book.
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