Arthur: Oh yeah, when Paul talks about tax reform we all fall into a trancelike state.
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It is the very last part of yoga, which at its most powerful can lead to a trancelike state.
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I like to go out at night on my bike listening to weird and beautiful music in a trancelike state.
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He is in a trancelike state as he chooses, sifting through thousands of stamps and molds swiftly and without talking.
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He described a trancelike state induced by an inner voice coaxing him to put a loaded shotgun into his mouth.
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The result: users falling into a trancelike state, groaning and moaning, their eyes lifeless and their movements slow and seemingly mechanical.
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Or is it just because the soothing voices and deep-sea imagery have the power to put you in a trancelike state?
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Andersen will then take the tennis balls in his hands, go to the side boards and stare down at the ice in a trancelike state.
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He kept vampire hours as he hacked, coding in a trancelike state that he termed "hyperfocus" until he dropped from exhaustion at around 3 or 4 am.
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Loggerheads go into a trancelike state when they lay eggs, Dr. Pfaller said, adding that if you approach a turtle before that point, it might get spooked.
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They danced in unison in a kind of trancelike state, tilt-a-whirling, head-banging, and humming to Meyers's fantastic score as the audience watched in near-bewildered amazement.
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One of the more hotly contested hypotheses is that the berserkers ingested a hallucinogenic mushroom (Amanita muscaria), commonly known as fly agaric, just before battle to induce their trancelike state.
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The Indonesian music pair Senyawa contributes a pounding, propulsive score inspired by the Javanese tradition of using dance to access a trancelike state, which members of the North Queensland-based company Dancenorth achieve with manic abandon.
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To bring students out of deep relaxation — savasana is a trancelike state — teachers give what the company calls a "personal share" tied to the class's theme (like "gratitude") and their own "soul-rocking" experience with CorePower, often in teacher training.
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The legendary Viking warriors known as berserkers were renowned for their ferocity in battle, purportedly fighting in a trancelike state of blind rage (berserkergang), howling like wild animals, biting their shields, and often unable to distinguish between friend and foe in the heat of battle.
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Having returned from the tunnels, Nick's group splits up to remove evidence of the fights at Nick's loft and Rosalee's shop. At the shop, one of the corpses grips Eve's arm, and she enters a trancelike state. Rosalee identifies this as the Death Grip, and on consulting a book hacks off the attacker's hand as a remedy. Eve then returns to consciousness.
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Green was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent time in psychiatric hospitals undergoing electroconvulsive therapy during the mid-1970s. Many sources attest to his lethargic, trancelike state during this period. In 1977, Green was arrested for threatening his accountant David Simmons with a shotgun. The exact circumstances are the subject of much speculation, the most famous being that Green wanted Simmons to stop sending money to him.
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It starts by painting a rustic scene of trees, rivers, shepherds, and sheep. The shepherds gather around an altar and pray to Pan, god of shepherds and flocks. As the youths sing and dance, the elder men sit and talk about what life would be like in the shades of Elysium. However, Endymion, the "brain-sick shepherd- prince" of Mt. Latmos, is in a trancelike state, and not participating in their discourse.
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Angry at his fate, Khayman secretly makes the twin witches into vampires as well, in hope of them one day rising up against Akasha and defeating her. After the twins became vampires, Khayman also makes other vampires to fight against Akasha and Enkil (who now present themselves as the gods Isis and Osiris). His "treason" results in a great increase and multiplication of the vampire population, who created the vampire wars that he dreamed of. Eventually Akasha and Enkil would remain in a trancelike state for almost 4000 years.
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Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality, often shortened to Rim (1994) is a novel by American writer Alexander Besher. Set in the near future where virtual reality has dominated the economy and popular culture (much like today's internet), commercial space travel is commonplace, and orbiting space hotels surpass the complexity of even the International Space Station, it follows the story of former psychic detective Frank Gobi and his son Trevor as they solve the mystery of a VR crash that leaves millions of people in a trancelike state. The novel takes place in the year 2027. Its sequels Mir and Chi take place in 2036 and 2038, respectively.
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Armstrong and Butcher depict the children as traumatized and ill- equipped to handle the world around them, the youngest being barely more than toddlers at the time of the "Fire-Us," the children's name for the contagion. Teacher takes on the responsibility of educating the younger children, Baby, Doll, Teddy Bear (her brother) and Action Figure (Hunter's brother). Teacher compulsively collects information concerning the Fire-Us and the collapsed civilization in The Book, a scrapbook which she adds to in a trancelike state. In reality, The Book seems to be a meaningless collection of advertisements, half-remembered news segments, and bits of instruction manuals.
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In the narrative, the Hobbit Frodo Baggins, more or less healed after being stabbed with a Morgul-knife by a Black Rider,The Fellowship of the Ring, book 1, ch. 12, "Flight to the Ford" sits listening to the Elvish music, falling into a trancelike state, until he hears Song of Eärendil which his cousin Bilbo sings, and supposedly composed, at Elrond's house, Rivendell:The Fellowship of the Ring, book 2, ch. 1 "Many Meetings" Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull comment on this passage that the effect of the Elvish song is like that of "Faërian drama" as described by Tolkien in his essay "On Fairy-Stories", where you "think you are bodily inside its Secondary World". Tom Shippey says of the same passage that "Frodo indeed finds himself listening in highly Keatsian style".
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