Hypnosis is just deep relaxation, and unlike popular belief, you do not lose consciousness. You are fully aware of everything that is going on around you, but you do go into a trance state. There's nothing unusual about that. We go into trance states many times during the course of the day. Reading is an automatic trance state, very often we will go into a trance state while watching television or even just walking along the road. But the one that explains it best of all is when you are driving a car and suddenly you are unaware exactly where you are on the journey. Have you already gone around that roundabout or not? We have all had that experience and we have been in a trance state. but fully aware of what we are doing and where we are going fully conscious otherwise, we would have had an accident.