When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light…

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…

— Madison Smartt Bell

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

— R. D. Laing

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

— Charley Pride

“We have to accept that human culture is in a mass hypnotic trance. We’re sleepwalkers.”

— Richard Rohr

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

— Chuck Mangione

A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that can be…

— Ginette Paris

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.…

— Byron Katie

Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell.

— Ernest K. Gann

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening…

— Henry Reed

If you were listening to the hypnotic voice of your Source, you'd be constantly hearing the drum beating that says, 'You are loved, and…

— Esther Hicks

But there was no specific discussion when we came to make 'Hypnotic Eye' that were going to draw from a specific part of the…

— Mike Campbell

For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore.

— Christian Fennesz

Your voice is hypnotic the way it speaks to my soul, your eyes looking deep within me unlocking doors I thought were forever closed.

— Anonymous

The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I…

— Ron Chernow

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

— Eckhart Tolle