Elaboration 57

Trance is the subject of the social scientist who studies ideation not as such alone, but the different conditional circumstances for ideation, i.e. states with a different reality awareness, a different attentive dimension, a state clearly distinctive from everyday normal conversational activities. This latter is called the 'waking' state although hypnodynamici are fully aware that in fact no such state ever exists. Trance then, is simply a more clearly perceived state in consciousness, the so-called waking state only a group of intrusive trances, differing qua person, his experience, and other circumstances. Trance states, as WE observe them in others, simply mean that 'he is not wholly there', his mind is folded up upon itself. Trance states may occur from several 'pairs' of extremes in circumstances. No sound/very much noise (beat, machines, waterfall), no physical exertion/maximum physical exertion, maximum/minimum concentration, blood-sugar, repetition (or monotony), fear, etc., etc. What is called awake is always, only an in between somewhere.