初めて催眠に入る人の場合、とても浅い催眠状態から、覚醒してもらって、催眠状態と普通に覚醒した状態とを比べてもらうことがよくあります。
When people are being put into a hypnotic state for the first time I often, after placing them in a very light hypnotic state, wake them and ask them to compare their wakening state to that when hypnotised.