What Does Trance Feel Like? The feelings that you will experience during hypnosis are similar to dozing off to sleep. Most people feel pleasantly physically relaxed and mentally alert while they are being hypnotised. Some say it feels like meditation, others that they feel like they do after a massage, and others that it is similar to the heightened feelings induced by certain drugs. The experience of each individual under hypnosis is entirely different. Suggestions to put yourself in a relaxed state have the effect of changing muscle tension, heart rate, oxygen consumption, blood flow, and skin temperature. During hypnosis, there is marked relaxation of physical and psychological processes. It encourages the cessation of movement, but occasional involuntary movement, such as the fluttering of the eyelids, or twitching of the fingers, can occur. The muscles relax and the pulse and breathing rates become slower as the parasympathetic nervous system (associated with involuntary movement) becomes more active than the sympathetic nervous system (associated with conscious activity). The frontal brain regions, associated with conscious reasoning, become less active.