h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I think you bring up a lot of good points. I once in fact had a psychotic experience about our invisible electrical visitors being in the power and telephone systems. It seemed very real then I tell you.

The politics however may be attributable to the human race.

>> ..very real then I tell you. <<

Now you tell me.

~jwf~

My dear Mister Horse,
Uhm...can I call you Crazy?

On re-reading what I wrote above I feel somewhat uneasy that the tone with which it originally sounded in my head, which I assure you would have proved amusing and friendly if you'd 'heard' me say it, posssibly fails to communicate the high spirits in which it was intended. Being just a few words on a page, taken totally out of context, and without the support of my verbal skills to create all the nuances I had in mind, it may have offended or troubled you. I was not trying to be glib or off-putting, I was reacting to your phrase '..then let me tell you' and in my head 'Now you tell me' would have been a beautiful witty response if you could have heard me saying it.

Anyway, I now have a theory about your halucination. I suspect at the time of any psychotic episode (whether naturally or artificially induced) there is something called toxic narcossis happening. The blood stream is filled with chemicals producing strange mental imbalances and even weirder physical side effects (which few doctors and psychiatrists bother to consider). What you saw was probably your own mind analysing your situation of toxic psychosis and painting a 'cartoon' impressionistic image for your subconscious mind to interpret, ie: there is something strange circulating in your bloodstream (which as I said earlier could be produced naturally in the body or introduced into the system thru either deliberate or accidental ingestion or injection or even inhalation - of paint fumes, solvents, gasoline etc.)

I have had similar highly magnified 'body picture' halucinations. These would normally be seen only by the unconscious mind as a kind of message to the autonomic nervous system and the immune system. They would 'get the picture' that something is wrong and needs fixing. The fact that such images reach the conscious mind is the result of the short circuiting of the brain which the 'foreign' substance is causing, and quite likely I would guess at a time of stress and sleep deprivation.

take care,
~jwf~

If smileys were put on this earth for a reason, surely the best use for them is to clarify the tone in which cold, hard type is read? But I've noticed more than once that smiley users get into just the same welter of paranoia and apology over tone (or perhaps stress would be a better word) that I do. 'Now you tell me' was rather lovely, I thought, and hopefully Crazy Horse did too.

~jwf~

Dear ~jwf~

Thank you for your reply, I had a long period of drug induced narcosis/psyhosis, they were as amusing and spiritual as they were scarey and dark. I hope your expeditions into your inner mind (& possibly others) were as interesting as mine.

I am curious however what you mean by physical manifestations, do you mean hallucinations as I had a lot of these and see for instance, pictures within pictures, particularly Monet.