In fact, we may be in a trance as we write this.
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At times, he would be so overwhelmed by an understanding that he seemed to be in a trance.
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Long-haired and bearded people stand around fires, many with their eyes shut, appearing to be in a trance.
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He knew it when he looked around him: One of his friends talked non-stop, another appeared to be in a trance, a third friend had the giggles.
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Whatever the case; to be in a trance is to lull the mind into a false sense of security, to be transported into a kind of other consciousness.
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She believed that by killing men, she was protecting Joanne. As the party ends, Melissa is shown to be in a trance, holding a bloody knife.
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It would be nice to stand on the podium with him again. But Emil came in sixth, oh, very tired. He seemed to be in a trance, staring straight ahead. He said nothing.
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When he rises, he appears to be in a trance. That night, while Alex is asleep, Wyatt makes the blanket fly off the bed and levitates her in mid-air. On the twelfth night, a possessed Katie is seen sneaking around. Alex hears the garage door open, so she goes to close it.
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He injects Martha with "Zaat", readies her to be dunked into the tank and makes his getaway with canisters of the compound. Martha's transformation does not go as planned, and she is saved from the tank by a dying Rex, although she appears to be in a trance and immediately follows Leopold into the sea.
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Karl Ellwanger remembered, "When he worked, he seemed to be in a trance, he was almost not there. My presence did not disturb his work. He would walk the length of the room, adding a brushstroke and then walking back, a constant back and forth – it was impossible to follow him."Karl Ellwanger on 26 July 1990.
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In November 1961 Betty began writing down the details of her dreams. In one dream, she and Barney encountered a roadblock and men who surrounded their car. She lost consciousness, but struggled to regain it. She then realized that she was being forced by two small men to walk in a forest in the nighttime, and of seeing Barney walking behind her, though when she called to him, he seemed to be in a trance or sleepwalking.
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After witnessing such a monk David-Néel described how "[h]e seemed to lift himself from the ground. His steps had the regularity of a pendulum [...] the traveller seemed to be in a trance. Gogle preview of alternate edition WorldCat list of 60 versions According to Alexandra David-Néel, Milarepa boasted of having "crossed in a few days, a distance which, before his training in black magic, had taken him more than a month. He ascribes his gift to the clever control of 'internal air'.
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Upon arriving at the top, the trio find themselves in the courtyard of a castle, where they find a girl who appears to be in a trance looking at them. The girl, Margaret, is the princess of the castle. Her mother and father have disappeared, but she claims to be happy since she will soon be marrying her beloved prince, Tulip, who is actually a giant. Margaret introduces Jack to Tulip's mother, Madame Hecuba, who herself is actually an evil witch that has put the princess under a spell.
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The novices kept > their eyes closed all this while and pretended to be in a trance. > A cloak was then thrown over each novice and a man, selected from a distant > tribe, came quietly up and sat down beside him, and, lifting up the cloak, > commenced plucking the hair from the pubes. At intervals the operators were > relieved by others of both sexes. When all the hair had been pulled out, > that of each novice was carefully rolled up in green boughs, all the lots > being put together and given to one of the old men to take care of.
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Much of the text appears to mirror the work of Alexandra David-Néel, overlaid with Illion's personal musings and fantastic tales. This is a quote from David-Néel's Magic and Mystery in Tibet, (published five years previously) which recounts an earlier meeting she had with a lung-gom-pa lama: > "He seemed to lift himself from the ground.. His steps had the regularity of > a pendulum.. ..the traveller seemed to be in a trance." These men they say, > are able to sit on an ear of barley without bending its stalk, or to stand > on the top of a heap of grain without displacing any of it. ..but I have not > myself witnessed anything like it.
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He tells Jose Chung that Mulder was in the diner by himself that night with no one else, and that he kept asking the cook strange questions about UFOs and alien abductions while ordering piece after piece of sweet potato pie. After leaving the diner, Mulder returns to their motel and finds the men in black seen earlier (played by Jesse Ventura and Alex Trebek), in Scully's room. Scully appears to be in a trance, and has no memory of seeing the men in black. The next morning, Mulder, Scully, and Detective Manners hear about the crash of an Air Force plane and head to the crash site, where the dead bodies of the two Air Force pilots they met earlier are recovered.
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