What is hypnosis in medical terms? Let us try to imagine a state of alcoholic intoxication - we seem to function, we seem to talk to our companions, but nevertheless our perception of the surrounding stimuli is significantly reduced. We can say that in such a state our consciousness is incomplete (which we often only find out the next day when our "friends" recount the course of events). It turns out that, even though we were awake while consuming alcohol, we cannot recall the events for anything.