While his current favorite entertainment medium is hypnosis, the underlying theme is always comedy. He makes people laugh. His sense of humor is often described as a combination of "funny — ha ha" and "funny —strange."

Sands’ sense of humor, which is sometimes dry, often corny, but always funny, has been influenced by a combination of street performing in San Francisco and his Catskill, NY youth.

When performing hypnosis, The SandMan brings the subject's subconscious to the movies, through temperature changes and to Mars, animal encounters, arguments in international tongues and creating what Alan likes to call "a three-ring circus of dreams", where every volunteer on stage imagines different fantasies at the same time.

One of his great talents is that he can entertain all ages from children to adults and he makes them laugh simultaneously, keep them laughing and to leave them wanting more.