Miss Piggy wrote:

I don't believe it either.  I definitely said some made-up words because I wanted so badly to speak in tongues and fit in.  In 18 years, I never experienced a trance state or anything similar.  I definitely felt emotional when singing and worshiping, but I felt like I wasn't truly spirit-filled because I thought speaking in tongues should be an overpoweringly ecstatic experience.  I remember feeling less spiritual, or less anointed, because I didn't really speak in tongues or get slain in the spirit. 

As my beliefs have changed and shifted over the years, I came up with many theories for speaking in tongues, one of them being possession by other spirits.  Now that I don't believe in evil spirits, I think speaking in tongues is basically a mix of mass-psychosis/the emperor's new clothes.

I didn't think to mention it - but the attitude between a trance state and / or tongues was a huge difference between my time as a pagan and as a pentecostal.

As a pagan I was basically taught that it wasn't something that everyone would, could or even should do for various reasons.

As a pentecostal I the teaching was more,  - You will do this or you are not "right with God". 

I have to admit, I think the pagans were more correct on this.