0 a condition in which you are not completely conscious of what is happening around you or able to control what you are doing -- транс
Of these many illness' she is subject to catatonic trances which inevitably lead to her demise.
The following chapter argues for the existence of a 'broad spectrum of performance', ranging from performing in everyday life to shamanism and trance.
After awakening from their trances, performers claim not to remember anything done while performing.
If it persists the victim may enter a trancelike stupor, in which he sometimes regains consciousness long enough to take food and water.
Her channeling evolved from the usual raps and table-tipping to somnambulatory trances, of which she remembered nothing.
In trances shamans may ask their ancestors or various nature spirits for guidance.
Members of the staff regarded her as a fraud and wanted to prove her trances and ecstasies false.
He held prayer meetings where people had visions and fell into trances.
