# Your most memorable hallucination **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-hallucination/411767 "2007-07-14T16:16:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-hallucination/411767/41 "2007-07-17T07:35:04Z")
Mine are all drug-related. As a teen we used to go ‘ride around’ and smoke pot. We used to frequent back county roads, and sometimes if it were a full moon we drove without headlights (stupid, I know). One night the driver became agitated and becan babbling about TOADS! TOADS in the road with glimmering eyes - we laughed and pointed out this was the reflective markers in the centerline. That same night I remember being able to see peoples’ words - hanging in the air like thick ropes. The worst hallucination I ever had was the 3rd and last time I took acid. I had gone to my dealer’s house, and his brother was there with a mean chihuahua. We all took a hit, then the dealer and his g/f retired to the bedroom. As I began to come on to the drug, the brother began to make ‘moves’ on me, which I repulsed - and the durn dog tried to bite me as well. So I locked myself in the bathroom, only to find that millions of millions of tiny ants were crawling all over the walls. “S ok” I told myself, it’s just hallucinations. That worked until the walls began moving in as if to squeeze me. So I left the house and began walking home - some 10 blocks. Now it was about daybreak - and walking was harder than I had thot it would be, stoned as I ws (heh). As I walked down the sidewalk, as long as I progressed towards home the sun began to come up, the morning birds were singing and all was well. I began to falter and turned back. When I turned back the sun WENT BACK DOWN (in my hallucination) so I struck out homeward again. This went on for Og knows how long. I finally made it home. I laid on my bed and stared at the ceiling for 4 or 5 hours before I fell alseep. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-hallucination/411767/42 "2007-07-17T15:05:13Z")
While at a party last New Year’s Eve, I drank a vast and stupid quantity of Jack Daniels and Diet Dr Pepper in a short period of time. Later that evening, I could barely walk but I kept insisting that my husband take me outside because I heard the TARDIS, and I had to go meet the Doctor so we could go away and have adventures. I’d seen a bunch of _Doctor Who_ not long before that, so it made sense that I had it on the brain, but I was really adamant about it. He took me outside and walked me around a few times, guiding me like a puppet because I really was too drunk to walk. I only remember flashes of this, but I got the full story from my husband later. God, I was SO sick the next day. And what an embarrassingly geeky hallucination! ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-hallucination/411767/43 "2007-07-17T18:24:27Z")
One of the only times I saw something that absolutely was not there was when I had taken some LSD while camping with a bunch of people. I looked up in the sky and there was a giant black Escher-esque lizard, and coming from behind it were streams of rainbows, which were spinning. I remember thinking that it was my first ever “hallucination” and it was damn cool looking. My other experiences with LSD were more of the garden variety: walls breathing or moving, ugly people, auditory stuff. Hey kids, drugs are bad, m’kay? ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-hallucination/411767/44 "2007-07-17T18:42:10Z")
The first (and last) time I did acid I took two hits after already taking 2 2ci’s and I saw a lot weird stuff. I thought I was inside my friend’s house but the walls melted and I was sitting outside by a fire that was sloshing around like it was water. Then the cat started talking to me which seemed not quite right. I layed down and I kept lifting my head up and I would be in a different place. I’ve never done anything except drink alcohol since that day. Oh and the whole time I tried to sleep that night I had some reoccuring auditory hallucination of Grape Ape the cartoon character talking to me about ice cream sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-hallucination/411767/45 "2007-07-17T19:07:01Z")
I had an extraordinarily vivid waking dream/hallucination while listening to George Harrison’s _Within You/Without You_. I’d been smoking pot and doing some legal but fairly powerful ancillary substances (Mezcal and worm among others) and was listening to _Sgt. Pepper’s_ on its 20th anniversary (which was almost “20 years ago today” come to think of it, so half a life ago). Anyway, I lay down and closed my eyes and while the sitar-heavy song played I could feel myself being carried in a litter. Hard to explain, but when I opened my eyes it was sort of half the room I was in and half an Israeli/Jordanian style desert (rock, not sand) and I felt like it was a choice of where I wanted to be, and since I was in my room all the time I opted for the desert by closing my eyes about 90% shut and found I was being carried by bearers in a curtained litter. At some point I “heard” (which is to say that I _knew_ the caravan I was in was under attack- all I heard was the sounds of SGT PEPPER- and I looked through the curtains to see a dust cloud in front of the attacking force, and I felt that jerking you feel when you fall down in your dreams as the litter was dropped (one of my bearers was either shot or decided he had a scroll he’d rather be reading) and a Crusades like battle commenced. I was old in this “existence” and don’t believe I survived the battle, but I did draw my sword. There was never any sound save for the album. ## I remember thinking two things, one being “I wonder if the pot was laced” and “sitars aren’t Arabic! Why am I an old Arab!” Lasted as long as the song but seemed much longer, and way more vivid (and rational) than most of my dreams, so I count it as hallucination. Once when I had a high fever during a flu my nightlamp told me his name was Andrew and he’d pray for me. Even though I had a fever I knew that was a bit messed up and hallucinatory. Nevertheless I replaced “Andrew” with another lamp when I got over the flu. I can’t stand a holyrolling lamp. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-hallucination/411767/46 "2007-07-17T22:25:43Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] I can’t stand a holyrolling lamp. [/QUOTE] Me neither! This thread makes me glad I never did drugs. The booze is bad enough, and none of this sounds particularly fun. I have plenty of insane and vivid dreams when I go to sleep – I don’t need to put them on Miracle-Gro! ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-hallucination/411767/47 "2007-07-18T06:33:52Z")
[QUOTE=Christopher] I looked up at the ceiling and saw a spider that was two feet in diameter. [/QUOTE] I did this. Half asleep, and I “rescued” my gf who was sleeping at the time. 2AM and I ripped her off my bed while trembling. “Holy shit what’s wrong!?!” And all I could do was stare at her. Do I tell her I just saw a giant spider? Do I tell her I’m a loon? [QUOTE=Sampiro] Once when I had a high fever during a flu my nightlamp told me his name was Andrew and he’d pray for me. [/QUOTE] Once, when I was drunk I distinctly remember rolling over in bed, seeing a bag and saying “Hey you’re not like that old plastic bag, you’re like, some neeeew, plastic bag.” It was a paper bag. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-hallucination/411767/48 "2007-07-18T11:36:17Z")
I guess I’m a lightweight—all I’ve had were sleep-deprivation visions. Once, in the passenger seat of a car one late Christmas eve/morning (I was there to help keep the driver awake), I kept nodding off…until I saw some shadows in the road ahead _stand up_. Like the evil spirits from the movie “Ghost.” _That_ woke me up pretty damn fast. For about a minute. And, on a much earlier date, I was up late reading Plato’s Republic (for fun. Woo-hoo, wild teenage years!), and getting a little drowsy, starting to nod off. I decided to call it quit for the nights when the words on the page started changing to a transcript whatever was running through my mind at the moment. \*‘I wouldn’t want you to go against your own beliefs.’ ‘Very well – just to please you – since you will not let me speak. What else would you have me do?’ 'Nothing, by Zeus, I said; and if you are so disposed, I will god Thrasymachus is a dick. I don’t know how much longer I can put up with—what the hell? That’s not in the book…am I dreaming or something?\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-memorable-hallucination/411767.md?page=2)