If you are fearful you may be that rare individual who experiences amnesia during hypnosis, simply tape your session to take home and play. This is a good idea for everyone. Spontaneous amnesia occurs in hypnosis when one is bringing up information one is not wanting to face, which is the core of what is creating the negative conditions one desires to heal. You will not be aware you had spontaneous amnesia during the session until you play the tape. If you are disturbed by what you hear, call your therapist.
Trance is a common experience.
A football fan watching a game on TV is awake to the game, but is not awake to his body sitting in the chair or his wife calling him to dinner. Another myth about hypnosis is that memories brought up in hypnosis are not as accurate or believable as memories brought forward in conscious states of mind. A great deal of research over the years confirms that a person's memory of things is based less on factual recall and more on what they want and expect to be true. However, recent research by Edward Hirt at the University of Wisconsin in Madison identified a strategy that can overcome personal biases and facilitate accurate recall. As hypnosis enhances ones ability to image and to mentally recreate the past, one might correctly suppose hypnosis would enhance accurate recall of events of the past.