hypnotic trance
Noun
Meaning
a trance induced by the use of hypnosis; the person accepts the suggestions of the hypnotist
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Examples
Lothos puts Buffy in a hypnotic trance, which is broken due to Merrick's intervention.
Patients are first placed into a hypnotic trance (i.e. an extremely relaxed state). citation The unconscious can be retrieved during the hypnotic trance.
State theorists interpret the effects of hypnotism as due primarily to a specific, abnormal, and uniform psychological or physiological state of some description, often referred to as "hypnotic trance" or an "altered state of consciousness".