Hallucinogens (alters how you see things)

 

When categorising drugs, a tip is to think of a car. Depressants (brake), Stimulants (accelerator), Hallucinogens (dirty windscreen) and Opiates (airbag). This should help you make the distinction between the four.

Hallucinogen Drugs (Dirty Windscreen)

"If we use drugs to change how we see the world, or alter how we feel, think and act – then we run the risk of doing things we normally wouldn't and that could be very dangerous (dirty windscreen)"

Hallucinogens are drugs that cause hallucinations. A hallucination is a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind. It may involve hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting or feeling something that isn't really there. Or, it may involve distorted sensory perceptions, so that things look, sound, smell, taste, or feel differently from the way they are. Hallucinogenic drugs usually produce so-called pseudo-hallucinations. This means that the user typically knows that what he or she is seeing, hearing, smelling, etc. is not real, but is a product of the drug., sometimes the hallucinations can be very frightening to the user. The user may be panic-stricken by what he or she is seeing or hearing and may become uncontrollably excited or even try to flee from the terror. These experiences are called "bad trip”. A "bad trip" sometimes may be re-experienced as a flashback. Hallucinogen flashbacks apparently do not occur because of a residual quantity of drug in a user's body. Rather, flashbacks apparently are vivid recollections of a portion of a previous hallucinogenic experience. Essentially flashbacks are very intense and very frightening. There are three types of flashbacks; emotional, somatic, and perceptual. The emotional flashback is the most dangerous. It brings back strong feelings of panic, fear and loneliness and creates an intense and very real recollection of the original "bad trip". A somatic flashback consists of altered body sensations, e.g., tremors, weakness, nausea, dizziness, etc. that were part of the original "trip". In a perceptual flashback, the user re-experiences some of the sensory distortions of the original "trip".

Hallucinogen Drugs include: (Click on the links for more information) Amanita Muscaria Cannabis Cannabis Oil Cannabis Resin Ketamine LSD Magic Mushrooms PCP Peyote Cacti SKunk

Hallucinogens are drugs that cause hallucinations

This information is accurate as of 2008.

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