Byron Katie

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

American Author

Federico Fellini

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

Italian Director

Noah Hawley

Legion' is meant to be a show that is a state of mind. But the problem with TV is that there are commercials. There's a hypnotic quality to the way we put it together. I need to get you out of your life in the first seven minutes of that show.

American Producer

Nick Sagan

Life in space is impossible,' we're warned, and amidst the hypnotic beauty of these heavens, we become painfully aware of what a hostile environment space is, how unforgiving, how unsympathetic to human desires.

American Novelist

Fritz Kreisler

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

Austrian Composer

Edward Zwick

We've suspended the willing suspension of disbelief. We have given up that relationship, that almost hypnotic engagement, with the characters up on the screen.

American Director

Eric Clapton

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

British Musician

Eckhart Tolle

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

German Speaker

Havelock Ellis

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

British Psychologist

Ken Jennings

There's just something hypnotic about maps.

American Celebrity

Use 'hypnotic' to describe something that directly involves hypnosis or metaphorically enchants to a similar degree.

Hypnosis Connection

'Hypnotic' can carry negative connotations, suggesting loss of control or unwilling influence.

Not Always Positive

'Hypnotic' highlights a powerful allure that demands focus, often leading to a trance-like engagement.

Captivating Attention

Describing a scene or person as 'hypnotic' can amplify its beauty or mystery in storytelling.

Use in Description

In literary contexts, a 'hypnotic' character may be seen as morally ambiguous, using charm for good or ill.

Ambiguous Morality

'Hypnotic' as a noun refers to medication that induces sleep, so use it specifically in health-related topics.

Medical Context

Avoid confusing medical 'hypnotics' with recreational drugs; hypnotics are for therapy or treatment.

Not Recreational

 Now my goal in showing you that is to show you that music is not robust to degradation. You distort it a little bit, especially in terms of pitch, and you've changed it. And it might be that you kind of like that. That's kind of hypnotic. But it certainly wasn't the way the music was intended.

Charles Limb: Building...

 a hypnotic state of cognitive dissonance in which one is compelled to disregard their own perception in place of the officially dictated version of events, leaving the individual completely dependent on the State's definition of reality itself. The result is a world

What "Orwellian" really...

 This musical sensibility makes Murakami’s work all the more hypnotic. He frequently bends the line between reality and a world of dreams, and is considered a master of magic lurking in the mundane. This is a key feature of magical realism. In contrast to fantasy,

Why should you read...

 here was the quintessential story move we would do. We'd bring on somebody -- Steven It's one of the most hypnotic and spellbinding spectacles in nature, because, you have to keep in mind, it is absolutely silent. Jad Like this guy, mathematician, Steve Strogatz,

How Dolly Parton led me...

 published a popular biography of Italian Renaissance artists, Leonardo included. The book was translated and distributed widely, and it contained a gushing description of the “Mona Lisa” as a hypnotic imitation of life.

Why is the Mona Lisa so...

 and hoaxes that in some cases anticipated science fiction. Those included an account of a balloon voyage to the moon, and a report of a dying patient put into a hypnotic trance so he could speak from the other side.

 And yet the more you add, the more seems to go missing. The Arabic has an incantatory, almost hypnotic quality that begs to be heard rather than read, felt more than analyzed. It wants to be chanted out loud,

Lesley Hazleton: A...

 another paradise full of top red or full of sharks and watching these sharks swim patrol over the reef looking for prey was like watching an underwater ballet it was totally hypnotic and again we

Enric Sala: Journey to...

 when I find myself in this hypnotic world surrounded by amazing curious creatures staggeringly beautiful

Ireland’s Underwater...

 The trauma of attack can initiate another hypnotic state.