So the other day I drank a lot of alcohol. I mean, lager for about six hours, then a short break, then gin for another six hours. Oddly I was unable to sleep, and was up all night.
The following day the hangover was terrible, but much worse than any I've had before; my blood pressure seemed to be through the roof. Then for a number of hours I was having mild hallucinations.
It did occur to me this may have been because I recently drank a few pints of lager coming down off LSA, but I don't think this was the cause; the hallucinations were completely different. On LSA, I never exactly saw anything that wasn't there, I just saw patterns moving and such. When I had this hangover, I kept briefly seeing things that weren't there, maybe flies moving around the room or people walking in the corner of my eye. Bizarrely, I had extremely vivid closed-eye visuals. Faces of people, some known some unknown, would quickly burn into my field of vision then disappear.
Other symptoms I wouldn't associate with a hangover included confusion, difficulty breathing and fever.
Is it possible for alcohol to cause hallucinations?
The following day the hangover was terrible, but much worse than any I've had before; my blood pressure seemed to be through the roof. Then for a number of hours I was having mild hallucinations.
It did occur to me this may have been because I recently drank a few pints of lager coming down off LSA, but I don't think this was the cause; the hallucinations were completely different. On LSA, I never exactly saw anything that wasn't there, I just saw patterns moving and such. When I had this hangover, I kept briefly seeing things that weren't there, maybe flies moving around the room or people walking in the corner of my eye. Bizarrely, I had extremely vivid closed-eye visuals. Faces of people, some known some unknown, would quickly burn into my field of vision then disappear.
Other symptoms I wouldn't associate with a hangover included confusion, difficulty breathing and fever.
Is it possible for alcohol to cause hallucinations?