He said the movie shows some truths about the power of a hypnotic state.
Transcendent, relentless, entering some pale blue, hazy, hypnotic state, doors behind doors.
"There's time distortion when you are in the alpha state -- like a hypnotic state," she said.
But the work does induce a trancelike, hypnotic state, the "tripping experience," as Mr. Behar refers to it.
The trick is to will yourself into the hypnotic state where you believe your own language and your own story.
"The red dot," said Morris, "became his trigger point to go into a deep zen‑like, almost hypnotic state".
The landscape was very repetitive and after a few days, I found myself in a strange hypnotic state.
The hypnotic state, involving focused concentration or awareness, can affect many physiological functions, including blood flow, pain sensation, and immune response.
In a sort of hypnotic state, she found herself listening to a voice not her own yet couched in the cadences of her own most intimate speech.
Freud and Breuer observed that, when the sources of patients' ideas and impulses were brought into consciousness during the hypnotic state, the patients showed improvement.
It also remains uncertain whether the changes in activation produced by hypnotic inductions reflect a uniquely hypnotic state as opposed to more mundane processes.
