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I have found a short text which supports my description of the effects of gasoline sniffing:
"This behavior is almost as old as the use of gasoline is in mainstream culture. Gasoline vapors, when inhaled, can trigger an intense hallucinogenic state. The person who inhaled the vapors may experience what feels very much like being asleep and dreaming - while remaining fully awake and somewhat aware of his or her surroundings. Because the individual remains somewhat aware, breaking free from the hallucinogenic state is comparable to waking up from sleep. If they hear, feel, taste, smell, or even sense something in their close proximity - they can generally "snap" back into a somewhat dulled sense of reality. This intense hallucinogenic state generally only lasts a few minutes at a time, and the induction of oxygen back into the body helps to clear the effects faster."
Source:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1439303/sniffing_or_huffing_gasoline_vapors.html?cat=25
Once again it's very close to my descriptions of dreamy land:
"Every single noise echoes endlessly and audio hallucinations are extremely prominent especially outside. Car horns, helicopters, dogs barking, mothers calling for their children. I heard all these things echoeing in an endless loop through my head but don't know which of them were real and which were hallucinations. Strangely every time I huffed I would hear the same sounds echoing through my head and they would form a sort of song. I enjoyed the song so much I looked forward to hitting that peak just so I could hear it. I could almost make out words amidst the echoing noise, and would drive myself to the brink of lunacy trying to discern these jumbled beautiful lyrics. I even went so far as to try and write them down at the peak of my 'huff' and was ecstatic when I thought I had done it. Finally put in writing this strange song that teased my mind for so long. But when I finally came back to reality all that was on the paper was black scribbles. I gave up on the song. Another time I was huffing on the side of my friends house with him, and suddenly realized I was in Australia. I knew I had always been there and it was my job to catch boomerangs thrown from America and translate the messages written on them. It sounds idiotic but at the peak of a gas huff anything goes and you take what you can get. My friend has reported being taken into a cartoon version of the world, and a room filled with silver confetti where a huge eyeball floated in fromt of him and a deep voice laughed from the distance. I was once transported back to my childhood where I stood in a park on a summer day, I could see my friend but he seemed older and I thought for a second that it was my friends older brother and I had known him as a child and had dragged up some old memory since that feeling of dejavu was overwhelming."
Source:
http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=1361
"Confessions of a Gasoline Huffer", by Brendan Kiley.
Source:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/confessions-of-a-gasoline-huffer/Content?oid=484025
"There is relatively little information about the long-term cognitive effects of long-term, recreational gasoline inhalation among functional subjects who are still residing in their communities."
"A magnetic resonance imaging scan would likely provide only equivocal information on the extent of brain damage because brain mass remains constant, despite the continued loss of brain functional capacity. The SPECT scan was useful for outlining the functional capacity of the brain and might be a useful adjunct in the future for assessing brain impairment from substance inhalation."
Taken from "Low IQ and Gasoline Huffing: The Perpetuation Cycle" (2005).
Source:
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/162/5/1020-a
"Volatile substances are chemicals that vaporize to a gaseous form at normal room temperatures. Although the practice of inhaling volatile substances for mind altering and recreational purposes is over one hundred years old, sniffers today consume a vast array of complex chemical compounds whose effects upon the human body are poorly understood. Although the toxic effects of "huffing" most volatile substances are generally transient in nature, there are certain substances that present serious health risks. The primary physical effect of inhalant abuse is on the central nervous system (brain, brain stem, and spinal cord.) It can cause organic brain syndrome, which is the dimished capacity to think, reason, remember, do calculations, and abstract thinking. The most prominent threat with inhalant abuse is the Sudden Sniffing Death (SSD) syndrome. SSD is caused when certain inhalants sensitize the heart from the adrenal hormone epinephrine, resulting in a wildly erratic hearbeat and increased pulse which can end in heart failure and death."
Taken from the "Narcotic Educational Foundation of America".
Source:
http://www.cnoa.org/N-07.pdf
"Huffing behavior often begins very young, sometimes by 7 or 8 years of age. Most huffers are young people between 10 and 17 years old, but the habit may persist into the twenties or thirties. I have seen a 34-year-old man as a patient who admits to huffing. The behavior seems to peak in 14 and 15-year-olds; after that age they are more easily able to obtain alcohol and marijuana. Most huffers say that they would prefer to drink and smoke pot if they could. The high from huffing lasts for about 30 to 90 minutes, depending on the substance used. The short duration is one of the appeals; teens can get high in their bedrooms on common household products and then come down for dinner without anyone noticing. It is believed to be a psychotic kind of high, riveting, intense, more powerful than marijuana or alcohol; more like an opiate high. And highly addicting. It occurs almost immediately after inhaling, and makes the user feel giddy, carefree, powerful. A former huffer told me that it was just lots of fun; she and her friends would giggle and laugh uncontrollably for a little while."
Source:
http://tundramedicinedreams.blogspot.com/2006/09/huffing_03.html