Comparisons between hypnotised and non-hypnotised subjects suggest that if a " hypnotic trance " does exist it only accounts for a small proportion of the effects attributed to hypnotic suggestion, most of which can be replicated without hypnotic induction.

DID must be distinguished from, or determined if comorbid with, a variety of disorders including mood disorders, psychosis, anxiety disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, personality disorders, cognitive disorders, neurological disorders, epilepsy, somatoform disorder, factitious disorder, malingering, other dissociative disorders and trance states.

Emma, in a trance like state, takes her pillow and heads towards Hope, about to smother her to death, and she would have killed Hope if not for Namor's intervention.

Helm recalled her experiences of shooting the film in a contemporary interview, saying that " the night shots lasted three weeks, and even if they did lead to the greatest dramatic moments — even if we did follow Fritz Lang ’ s directions as though in a trance, enthusiastic and enraptured at the same time — I can ’ t forget the incredible strain that they put us under.

Pan entices villagers to listen to his pipes as if in a trance in Lord Dunsany's novel ' The Blessing of Pan ' published in 1927.

That a trance may be " light " or " deep " suggest a one dimensional continuum of trance depth, but Erickson would often work with multiple trances in the same patient, for example suggesting that the hypnotised patient behave " as if awake ", blurring the line between the hypnotic and awake state.

When the police ask Myra to conduct a séance to help them find the missing girl – as she had hoped they would – she breaks down during the séance and reveals, as if in a psychic trance, what she and Billy have done.

reading documents from all the colonies to prove that public opinion, the general sense of all, was in favor of the measure, when he came to North Carolina and produced letters and public proceedings which demonstrated that the majority in that colony were in favor of it, Mr. Hewes, who had hitherto constantly voted against it, started suddenly upright and lifting both hands to heaven as if he had been in a trance, cried out, " It is done and I will abide by it.

In the course of explaining the word trance in the poem The Excursion by William Wordsworth, Hastie told his students that if they wanted to know its " real meaning ", they should go to " Ramakrishna of Dakshineswar.

Ahmadiyya literature states that during this sermon, there was a change in his voice, he appeared as if in a trance, in the grip of an unseen hand, and as if a voice from the unknown had made him its mouthpiece.

This trance, even if defined equally " crisis " by Mesmer himself become known as artificial somnambulism.

He argued against the idea that somehow the country could be guided in a ' tartan trance ' to independence, as if the Scottish people could ignore the realities of the economic system they found themselves in.

I was more interested in the book which described the auditing technique in which they had preclears — or prereleases if just beginners — count backwards from seven to zero repeatedly until they went into a trance, although Hubbard denied it was hypnosis.

A UNIT soldier walks, as if in a trance, through the woods, his right arm twitching spasmodically.

* In Cab Calloway's song " Reefer Man ," moreover, bass player Al Morgan performs as if in a trance and Calloway sings about him being " high on reefers.

The ring can place people in a hypnotic trance, show other Earths, and enable people ot travel between them, even drawing them if the user is on another Earth.

“ Traditionally, several years after a young man's wilyaru, and if he had shown considerable interest in magical matters, a Mindaba with some of his colleagues would take him out into the bush … Here the postulant was red-ochred and smeared all over with fat … The Mindaba taught him how to bring on a situation of trance and, in that context, to talk with spirits.

Depending on the speed, this shot has different connotations, e. g.: like a dream or trance if excessively slow bewildering and frightening if excessively frenetic

The story ended with Jak's parents catching him and threatening that if he didn't snap his sister out of her trance they would ground him.

Her eyes were glazed as if she didn't hear or even see him.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

She did not pause to consider what she would do if her plan should fail ; ;

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

But her mother would rebuke her if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her concern.

I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.

`` Yes '', she said, almost in a whisper, as if admitting to a crime.

but if it had been, it had been smothered until now by fear ): you could tell it by the way she watched the older, bigger boys, like Jack.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.

But if she were just having a normal case of pre-nuptial jitters such a question might frighten her out of a really good marriage.

Rachel came close to the bed, bent as if she would kiss him, then moved away.

The woman had the glassy look of an invalid, as if she had not slept at all.

The bodice beneath was buttoned and, withdrawing his lips from hers, he set her upright on his knee and started to undo it, unhurriedly as if she were a child.

He tried defiance and openly flaunted his devotion to his half sister, but he soon saw, as did she, that this course if persisted in would involve them in a common ruin.

Bobby Joe was trying to get Linda Kay to say she would cook one if he brought it home.

Still, he had liked the way she had looked, in a fresh, neat cotton dress -- citron yellow, if he remembered.

Bragi responds that if they were outside the hall, he would have Loki's head, but Loki only repeats the accusation.

Otherwise, if the sought key is less than the middle element's key, then the algorithm repeats its action on the sub-array to the left of the middle element or, if the input key is greater, on the sub-array to the right.

At this point if is a halting state, the machine halts, otherwise it repeats this same procedure.

It adds the contents of the given register ( if non-zero ) to the offset ; then, if the indirect bit is 1, fetches the word at the calculated address and repeats the effective address calculation until an effective address with a zero indirect bit is reached.

The value of the sine repeats itself apart from sign in all four quadrants, and if the range of θ is extended to additional rotations, this behavior repeats periodically with a period 2π.

But if the channel is busy, the station does not continuously sense it but instead of that it waits for random amount of time and repeats the algorithm.

One LFSR is clocked if the output of a second is a " 1 ", otherwise it repeats its previous output.

In the second half, there is a remarkable pianissimo passage where the treble holds a chord for four full bars while the bass repeats a little three-note figure over and over, eight times, after which the melody proceeds as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.

Otherwise, call it doubly infinite if all the elements are distinct or cyclic if it repeats.

He also repeats that if the United Nations does not act to disarm Baghdad, the United States will lead a coalition of voluntary countries to disarm Saddam Hussein.

This process begins with a tentative solution, revises it slightly to see if it can be improved, and repeats this revision until improvement is minute, at which point the process is said to have converged ..

Mrs. Oliver repeats to Poirot Joyce's comment that she had once witnessed a murder ; Mrs. Oliver now wonders if Joyce might have been telling the truth, which might provide someone with a motive for killing her.

The show's nature does not allow repeats, except for updates on convicted criminals, and is preempted a maximum of eight times during the year ; however, if a fugitive featured on the show is not captured, their profile may be aired again.

In 1985, it again seemed as if that the current series was the last one, and it was off-air ( bar repeats ) for three years, to reappear in 1988.

" Although the Liberal Party had threatened to sue Harper if he repeats his allegation during the campaign, parliamentary immunity prevented them from legal action against his statements in the Commons.

He wrote that word skills can be increased if the teacher brings in new words, and repeats them, often.

A repeat sign is written for the first section: if one adheres meticulously to the score, the movement consists of three lengthy, almost identical repeats of the same musical material.

Players are also limited to two repeats or spellings in the final round, if they qualify.

Teams alternate responses ; if one team provides an incorrect response or repeats an answer, then the other team shall have an opportunity to name the remaining items in the list unless they too make a mistake in giving a wrong answer or repeating.

As soon as the Prince repeats the word, as if by magic, the pair find a secret tunnel beneath one of the sarcophagi, which winds down into a mysterious, dreamlike bathhouse which resembles the magic fountains that the Prince earlier used to increase his health.