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trance out
verb
- slang.to go into a trancelike or ecstatic state, esp through the effects of drugs or music
Example Sentences
âWhen you hear a good ballad singer, they disappear, and the story lives, and you kind of trance out listening to it,â Giddens said.
âIt was a quickly processed image. Youâd see it, youâd read the word and then youâre on your way. Youâre driving and you didnât have time to take in the information. You process it, but you donât know what that means. Thatâs what it was about, to remove you from your trance out of ordinary life for a moment.â
âI would lock my vision straight at the computer screen, trance out, and become a human-machine hybrid zipping through the virtual architecture that my co-workers and I were building. Hunger, thirst, sleepiness, and even pain all faded away while I was staring at the screen, thinking and typing.â
These days I write more than I code, but one of the things I miss about programming is the coderâs high: those times when, for hours on end, I would lock my vision straight at the computer screen, trance out, and become a human-machine hybrid zipping through the virtual architecture that my co-workers and I were building.
Just as often the dance-music effect was an undogmatic blend of live and machine-generated rhythms, an embrace of sounds that are difficult or impossible to produce on physical instruments, a willingness to trance out with repetition, and a sense of song structure resembling a dance-music set: prizing smooth transitions and not looking back.
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