Hypnotic Trance Quotes

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

That was how I started, as a hypnotist. But I didn't like the kind of gigs I was being offered. I didn't want to embarrass people.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

I was in Leeds, just starting out, and I was hypnotising one person up on stage. Suddenly I had members of the crowd unsuspectingly go to sleep on me as well.

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.

I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully.

I am constantly asked can anyone be hypnotized, and does it really work? Yes, and it does.

Hypnosis is just suggestibility; you see it in certain people.

I believe everyone has the ability to be hypnotised, and I think, on different days, different people will have varying levels of susceptibility.

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

Actually, actually, when he first put us into hypnosis, he didn't know what he was going to get.

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.

If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to.

Clearly if a hypnotist could make someone to steal £100k just by telling them to, the world would be a different place, and I suspect that hypnotists wouldn't bother doing shows in pubs or dodgy Spanish holiday resorts.

Hypnosis I believe is real. The only problem I guess I have is that, you know, if God or somebody who passed on in my life wanted to talk to me, why wouldn't they come directly to me?

I can hypnotize rabbits.