trance
Sign in to saveTrance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless capable of pursuing and realizing an aim) or is selectively responsive in following the directions of the person (if any) who has induced the trance. Trance states may occur involuntarily and unbidden.
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- Dissociative trance
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- The Oracle at Delphi was famous for her divinatory trances throughout the ancient Mediterranean world. Oil painting, John Collier, 1891
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- Psychiatry
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23 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Working models
- Trance states
- History
- Mystics
- Military
- Christian mystics
- Mesmer and the origin of hypnotherapy
- Trance in American Christianity
- Trance and Anglo-American Protestants
- Trance induction and sensory modality
- Auditory driving and auditory art
- Visual driving and visual art
- Kinesthetic driving and somatic art
- Types and varieties
- Divination
- Nechung Oracle
- Scientific disciplines
- Brainwaves and brain rhythms
- See also
- Notes
- Further reading
- External links
Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless capable of pursuing and realizing an aim) or is selectively responsive in following the directions of the person (if any) who has induced the trance. Trance states may occur involuntarily and unbidden.
The term trance may be associated with hypnosis, spirit possession, magic, flow, prayer, psychedelic drugs, and altered states of consciousness.