Acts 11:5

Trance seems to be misleading. Trance seems to be an altered state of consciousness (raising the question of how authentic would a "trance" be for communicating an event. But being given a vision is closer to the meaning. ἐκστάσει is to take to another place, as it were. These are figures, and the nature of the vision does not belie unconsciousness or semi-consciousness. The vision seems to fit what is happening much better.

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 \v 4 But Peter started to explain the matter to them in detail; he said,
-\v 5 I was praying in the city of Joppa, and in a trance I saw a vision of a container coming down, like a large sheet let down from heaven by its four corners. It descended to me.
+\v 5 I was praying in the city of Joppa, and I had a vision of a container coming down, like a large sheet let down from heaven by its four corners. It descended to me.
 \v 6 I gazed at it and I thought about it. I saw the four-legged animals of earth, wild beasts, creeping animals, and birds of the sky.
 
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