One of the most experimental artists of the 20th century, Polke's work ranges from appropriated mass media images to pictures of mushrooms he painted while
on hallucinogenic drugs.
We Happy Few stood out last year, introducing a retrofuture post-war England where citizens are dependent
on a hallucinogenic drug called Joy, and the streets are filled with deliriously happy and murderous neighbours.
Not exact matches
Giving patients
drugs that are based
on the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, known for their
hallucinogenic properties, could help reboot the brains of people who suffer from mental illness and who are otherwise resistant to treatment.
But in the 1950s Stephen Szara, a Hungarian chemist who later worked for the National Institute
on Drug Abuse, discovered that when injected, DMT triggers an extremely powerful
hallucinogenic trip lasting less than an hour.
The serotonin (5 - HT) hypothesis of schizophrenia arose from early studies
on interactions between the
hallucinogenic drug LSD (D - lysergic acid diethylamide) and 5 - HT in peripheral systems.
I'm seriously debating taking them back and getting the regular ones because I feel like I'm
on some sort of
hallucinogenic drug when I try to look at my phone.
In case This Is The End didn't give you enough
drugged - out Michael Cera (it didn't), check out Sebastian Silva's film Crystal Fairy, which follows Cera
on a
hallucinogenic cactus binge throughout Chile.
I have no doubt that war veterans have wandered into the deserts of the American Southwest seeking escape and answers, but Kleos (with its
hallucinogenic drugs, apparent focus
on male war veterans only to the exclusion of family and friends, and crazy leader) could not have been beneficial to its occupants.
Huxley (1894 - 1963),
on the other hand, was born into a prominent English family, wrote elegant satirical and dystopian novels like Crome Yellow and Brave New World, and embraced the new frontier of
hallucinogenic drugs, most explicitly in his extended essay
on mescaline usage, The Doors of Perception.
The colors are so intense that it is as if you were seeing them
on a flat - screen television, or your visual perception had been amplified by a
hallucinogenic drug.
On the other hand there is painting as a kind of
drug offering a
hallucinogenic experience, like Op art.