To finish this series of posts about my exploration of trance, I am sure you all ask yourselves how it is like to be in trance. It’s difficult to describe, I’ll still give it a try.
Basically getting in a trance state is getting the habit of inhibiting our higher cognitive functions to allow subconscious processes to express themselves, through gestures and movement as well as noises. Visions appear including colors and sometimes impersonation of animals or things.
The amazing part is that one remains very much conscious during the experience, self-observing what happens and in a certain capability to recount the experience (although like a dream, memories tend to dissipate after a while).
It is not infrequent to produce sounds or perform movements that one would be quite unable to produce in a normal state (remember that trance increases strength and diminishes pain).
An important parameter is also that trance is quite a contagious state: during the training with 20-ish trainees and 5 or 6 experienced trance practitioners, the departure of a critical number of people in the trance state had almost an instant effect on the rest of the group.
Trance is quite an enjoyable state and in a way, is a method for self-healing emotional and physical conditions. In that matter, the power within can sometimes be extremely impressive.
As I am practicing and it will take weeks to increase my understanding of trance, I give you all an appointment in a few months’ time to learn more about trance, and possibly my adventures as part of the associated scientific experiments!
I hope you enjoyed this series of post on my personal journey into an altered state of consciousness – cognitive trance – that I was privileged to undertake this year. I will recount from time to time my experiences around trance. Stay tuned!
Previous posts in this series:
- A Journey Into Altered States of Consciousness: Introduction
- How Trance Is a Common Altered State of Consciousness
- How Trance Is Common Around Us But We Don’t Realize It
- How Trance Is Associated with Pain Decrease and Strength Increase
- How ‘Flow’ May Assimilated to a Trance State
- How I Was Taught to Self-Induce Trance At Will After Only a Few Hours
- How My Teacher Corine Sombrun Discovered Trance Practice
- How Shamanistic Trance Inducers Are Quite Ineffective
- How Trance Has Become a Scientific Experiment
