Tongues-speakers today are proudly disengaging their minds when they use the claimed gift: they have no idea what they are saying, if anything, and neither does anyone else. The practise of being “slain in the Spirit” similarly seeks to vacate the mind and “let the Spirit take over”, causing people to apparently pass out on the floor and lay there – once they’ve adjusted their clothing – sometimes for hours, in what appears to be a comatose state.