I have a friend who has had many, many surgeries and unfortunately when on opioids is prone to do things like hide in >
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
> family member's bedrooms with a knife to stop "the monsters"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
I thought you were talking about Ambien, then read up-thread. Good to know more drugs do weird things
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Replying to @sschinke @arthur_affect
I absolutely have never heard anyone describe that kind of reaction to opiates besides her
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I mentioned the other day the weirdness of "pink elephants"
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I mean I know several people who can only picture pink elephants if they're shown pictures of them
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and others with no mind's eye at all
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @sschinke
I meant the cultural referent of "seeing pink elephants" meaning "being drunk"
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cf the weird scene in Dumbo where drinking champagne causes Dumbo to have a full on surreal dream sequence
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it's like poetic references to absinthe - was their stuff more potent than ours or were they just exaggerating
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(like I accept that the withdrawal hallucinations are the most likely explanation)
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