trance-like

Hypnosis, also referred to as hypnotherapy or hypnotic suggestion, is a trance-like state in which you have heightened focus, concentration and inner absorption.

Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Hypnosis and Dentistry D.D.S. Thomas P. Connelly 2011

So in a nutshell, you get hypnotized brought into that trance-like state they mention and then are more open to suggestion.

Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Hypnosis and Dentistry D.D.S. Thomas P. Connelly 2011

She had begun dancing alone, shoeless and trance-like in a long, Indian skirt and simple top in the Indian Summer light.

Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS Jim Sleeper 2011

Her music has been called "Opera Pop" but it doesn't do justice to the intricacies of her melodies and the trance-like power of her lyrics.

Tom Teicholz: Elizaveta, a Dreamy New Singer Tom Teicholz 2011

She immerses herself in the landscape; she achieves that trance-like state "when the feet and the blood seem to collide and harmonise" that's conducive to writing.

To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing – review 2011

The silent, trance-like parentheses in which his characters subsist is a good vantage point from which to pick out the turbulent details of the outside world, and so we're told of the "gassy moan of a city bus" and "long lines of cars, knotted and bent, that made scant gains forward."

The Nightmare Of Real Things Sam Sacks 2011

The local male teenagers featured in these videos know this trauma only secondhand—something that inspired the installation's trance-like state of escapism.

A Thai Director Dreams of History 2011

She says the often hypnotic mood of her music stems from her own trance-like state in making it.

The Short List 2011

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal Wednesday, Mr. Gilbert said the ring tone yanked him out of a trance-like state during the symphony's "most intense, most sublime, most emotional place."

Rogue Ringtone Halts a Maestro Jennifer Maloney 2012

There were the trance-like, Bolly-rock beats of Rose Windows, followed by Wayfinders, who sound like the thick, rich results of Uriah Heep combined with the Smashing Pumpkins.

In search of Nirvana 2011