Dear Thomas, Dealing a lot with kids, I think that laughing and playing are one of the most efficient ways to learn, although of course tastes in humor & games might be different, but that is a question of style or the persons we choose to be with. I also think that by that experience, we learned that "show hypnosis" is not something mystical, completely different from the things we learned, just different in the suggestions. So we are prepared to answer FAQ, and who knows, maybe one day it could be an opportunity to utilize that knowledge in a coaching or teaching context. My approach is "we can learn from everything and its our choice how we use it". So it is each persons decision if we want to learn, and, if we want to enjoy. As you know from NLP, we create pleasure in ourselves, it is not something produced by the outside. As a person with a lot of performing experience and also often playing with kids, I can tell you that the moment you do it truly ( and not from a third position that is accompained by an internal dialogue)you are in a trance state. When you are into the "acting out" you are in a trance. Especially when you experience those kind of things with kids, who are masters, you discover that when you are CONNECTED you share partly their visions and their created world: the chair is the horse, or the car or whatever... For my experience, adults have normally difficulties to come easily into those states. The difference in this martian trance experience to lets say a normal spontaneous acting situation with adults was, that "the world was already created" , the CONNECTION was established, as well as  the energetic flow, that means "I felt sharing with the martian and disagreement with the other translator" also the world was "set up". In normal acting you do the same, it just takes a little longer, is more effort, and you only can do it for yourself. I got inspired to use hypnosis for artistic work Best regards, Angelica