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If it doesn't contain AnAesop about the dangers of drug abuse with, it tends to just show off a character's carelessness. May involve a GRatedDrug. Hallucinations caused by alcohol go under the subtrope PinkElephants. See AcidRefluxNightmare for a food-related version. See ChemicallyInducedInsanity for cases where the character is stealthily or forcibly dosed in order to cause derangement. Sometimes leads to a DisneyAcidSequence. If it's a whole group of people experiencing it simultaneously, it's EverybodyMustGetStoned. See also ThroughTheEyesOfMadness and DrunkenMontage. Also often tied into DrugsAreBad. Not to be confused with the Brazilian dance and music genre, {{Samba}}.

* ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'': In Wyatt AlternateTimeline, protagonist B.J. Blazkowicz, while playing guitar with Jimmy Hendricks, gets given a drop of a red substance by him that puts B.J on a rainbow filled trip.

** In the "Rite of Passage" quest from the ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' DLC ''Honest Hearts'', the Courier trips out on Datura tea, and has to fight a flaming Yao Guai ghost, which is just as deadly as its regular brethren.

** In the "Rite of Passage" quest from the ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' DLC ''Honest Hearts'', the Courier trips out on Datura tea, and has to fight a flaming Yao Guai ghost, which is [[YourMindMakesItReal just as deadly]] as its real brethren.

* ''WebVideo/AMVHell'' presents [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRTjtpkLGoA its own interpretation]] of ''Literature/{{Paprika}}''.

If it doesn't contain AnAesop about the dangers of drug abuse with, it tends to just show off a character's carelessness. May involve a GRatedDrug. Hallucinations caused by alcohol go under the subtrope PinkElephants. See AcidRefluxNightmare for a food-related version. See ChemicallyInducedInsanity for cases where the character is stealthily or forcibly dosed in order to cause derangement. Sometimes leads to a DisneyAcidSequence. If it's a whole group of people experiencing it simultaneously, it's EverybodyMustGetStoned. See also ThroughTheEyesOfMadness and DrunkenMontage. Also often tied into DrugsAreBad.

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* The ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'' {{filler}} OVA episode, ''Drifters of the dead'' has the group unintentionally drug themselves by burning toxic hydrangea leaves, causing them all to hallucinate. And this being [[FanService High]] [[{{Ecchi}} School]] [[PantyShot of the Dead]] the hallucinations get a [[ParentalIncest little]] [[GirlOnGirlIsHot explicit.]]

* Parodied in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': Pearl Forrester decides to test LSD on the robots and they hook them up to screens so we can see what they see. Servo sees everyone as monsters, but cheerfully says they always look like that to him. The only thing that's different for Crow is that the Milky Way bar Mike was holding suddenly turns into a Snickers, which causes him to freak out. Crow is also surprised to learn that Mike isn't a clown.

* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'': In "The Pincushion Man", Jughead gets psychedelic visions from eating maple mushrooms to break his writer's block for his story, leading to him going missing.

* In ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'', [[TheLostWoods The Dark Forest]] is feared as a hellish landscape with monsters, vermin, BodyHorror, etc. The Huntsman, one of the only people to enter the forest and return alive, explains that while the forest does have a few monsters in it and is treacherous, the real danger is the hallucinogenic spores.

* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'': In "The Pincushion Man", Jughead gets psychedelic visions from eating maple mushrooms to break his writer's block for his story. He was even handcuffed to a table to avoid doing anything insane.

* Though not exactly a cause of drugs, one episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' had Jenny getting a dream chip installed so she can experience dreams. She starts to abuse it however and uses it during the daytime allowing her to see some pretty trippy stuff (all of her dreams are done in a different animation style). Things come to a head though when the chip gets damaged and she see everything in a Dr. Seuss style and goes on a rampage believing the people are Greek monsters.

* ''Film/TheUnbearableWeightOfMassiveTalent'' has a downplayed example. At one point, Javi convinces Nick to take some LSD with him for the sake of inspiration for their screenplay. There's nothing trippy, the two are just incredibly laid back for awhile, until they suddenly become very paranoid that people are following them, and they end up panicking and [[DrivesLikeCrazy driving like crazy]] to get away.

** Another episode is closer in spirit to its ''Cowboy Bebop'' predecessor, where the heroes run into [[spoiler: zombies]] and they and the viewer are partially left to question whether or not it was the result of some "wild mushrooms" they consumed at the episode's beginning.

* Dragons under the effects of Angel's Folly experience this in ''FanFic/TheLegendOfCynderSeries'', in addition to it [[PowerNullifier locking their powers.]] Cynder herself states she sees three Sparx' when [[spoiler: the sky pirates use it on her to keep her from escaping.]]

** Satori gets infested by the confusion-inducing mushrooms, causing her to behave impulsively and [[spoiler: [[EngagingConversation spontaneously proposition Mima]]]]. Afterward, she's too embarrassed to even speak with the party.

* The League of Shadows' blue flowers and Dr. Crane's fear gas/spray from ''Film/BatmanBegins'' seem to qualify. Decidedly not played for laughs, and in fact is used as a [[spoiler: panic-inducing]] plot point.

* Played straight in ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'', Sarah is given a "present" from Jareth - a peach which either causes her to hallucinate or actually transports her to a masquerade ball inside a crystal. There's also a possibility that the whole Labyrinth and such were hallucinated by Sarah, possibly because of a magical owl.

* ''Series/MadMen'', doing its [[TheSixties 1960s setting]] right, has now had ''two'' of these: In season 5, Roger took LSD with his wife and some friends, and had hallucinations that included hearing an orchestra when he opened a liquor bottle, seeing Don in the mirror while Roger's hair was two colors, and witnessing the 1919 World Series from his bathtub. Said hallucinations proved eye-opening in that they [[spoiler: made it clear his marriage to Jane was over]]. Season 6 had an even more blatant example with "The Crash", where the ''entire office'' took some kind of uppers. Though there were clear some hallucinations (like Don's flashbacks), much of the episode was left ambiguous as to what was really happening and what the characters were imagining. (The crippled Ken Cosgrove suddenly dancing out of nowhere?)

* ''Series/RedDwarf'' features an after-the-fact example in the past bits of "Stasis Leak": past Rimmer is convinced that his future self's holographic head sticking out of the table is a hallucination (same with the captain in a chicken suit).

* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' - Charlie smokes pharmaceutical weed and sees hallucinations of various ex-girlfriends.

** Continued in ''VideoGame/FarCry4'', which has a mission where you get high on the fumes inside an opium factory, an entire questline based around a pair of stoners testing their new formulas on you, and [[spoiler: a level where you are thrown into prison and drugged. Then you have to flee from hallucinatory demons.]]

* In stage 3 of ''Videogame/LollipopChainsaw'', a local farm is taken over by a psychadelia-themed [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Dark Purveyor]]. Juliet will occasionally run across a giant mushroom that she needs to cut down to progress, and each time it triggers a trippy battle against a giant zombie chicken monster, followed by a minigame where you run over zombies with a combine while Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me 'Round" plays. Then after you beat the boss, you find out [[spoiler: the whole ''stage'' was [[AllJustADream just a hallucination]] caused by the boss's powers.]]

* Not even ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'' was immune to this trope. [[spoiler: The "magic water spring" creates this which leads into a [[FissionMailed faked game over]]. It heals you as well for some reason...]]

* The canonical explanation for all the Bad Ends in ''VideoGame/Persona5'' caused by failing to complete Palaces within the time limit is that they're false memories caused by the drugs the police administered to [[TheHero Joker]] as part of their ColdBloodedTorture. [[spoiler: Except the part where he gets shot in the head.]]

* Allure Seeds in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon: Red/Blue Rescue Team'' and X-Eye Seeds in the sequel games had this effect- if the character eats one then all Pokémon in the room become [[strike:strange green doll-like things]] [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Substitute Substitute dolls]] and all items, Wonder Tiles, and stairs turn into flowers until the effect wears off.

** ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' continues the proud tradition in Shaundi's LoyaltyMission: after scoring a new alien drug, the Boss and Shaundi ([[spoiler:both of them]]) partake in it--and discover that it gave them actual superpowers. They proceed to complete the rest of the mission with their newfound powers while still tripping wildly (e.g. the Boss keeps seeing deadly enemies as colorful furries).

* ''VideoGame/{{Struggling}}'' has the Troy go through one of these, in which he navigates a weird SugarBowl full of singing mushrooms, play basketball against a group of buff ducks, and [[spoiler: take down another giant duck, ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus''-style.]]

** Chapter 21 [[spoiler: is an extended hallucination sequence where Drake witnesses Sully's death, runs through the streets of Cartagena while being pursued by spiders, is attacked by flaming demons, and sees himself being strangled by his own reflection.]]

* In ''VideoGame/WeHappyFew'', the town of [[FalseUtopia Wellington Wells]] looks very different if you've been taking your [[GovernmentDrugEnforcement Joy.]] This is made especially clear in the game's prologue, where [[spoiler: the "piñata" the player character's co-workers are pummeling turns out to be a dead rat. And then they devour its putrid flesh with every sign of enjoyment.]]

* In the Third Night of ''Literature/TheTaleOfGavenMorren'', Gaven is dosed with [[FantasticDrug Elisdee Lily extract]]. Given that [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything is out to get him already]], and you can see how not being able to tell what's a hallucination from reality might be a problem. The hallucinations manifest as frequent [[DaydreamSurprise daydream surprises]], the inability to recognize himself in mirrors, and even [[spoiler: hallucinating the presence of an [[ImaginaryFriend entire character]].]]

** Also happens in the season five episode "The Showstopper". As a result of Bojack abusing painkillers throughout the season, he's unable to distinguish reality from fiction for the entire episode, culminating in [[spoiler: nearly strangling his co-star to death on set.]]

* In the episode "Raisin The Stakes" on ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'', an anti-drug speaker tricks the entire high school into believing that raisins are a hallucinogen. Many drug montages take place of varying degrees of weirdness. (The entire episode is a rock opera ripped off from ''Music/TheWall'' and ''Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat'' with traces of ''{{Theatre/Godspell}}'' and ''{{Theatre/Hair}}'' - very 60's-70's.)

** Almost the entirety of the episode of ''The Sting'', combined with AllJustADream. [[spoiler: It's revealed in the end that the majority of the episode was Leela's dream while she was in a coma after getting a dose of venom on the bee's stinger that scratched her.]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E5TheInconveniencing The Inconveniencing]]", Mabel eats [[EleventyZillion bleventeen]] packets of a strange German confection called Smile Dip, which apparently got banned in America sometime shortly before the abandoned convenience store it was found in got, well, abandoned. It's never mentioned ''why'' the stuff is banned, but it's probably because it's capable of [[GRatedDrug inducing vivid hallucinations (as she soon discovers)]]. She spends much of the episode lying on the floor with her pupils dilated, hallucinating wildly and mostly unaware of what's going on around her.[[note]]She does manage to answer a direct question - "Mabel, how many of those did you eat?!" - but is otherwise unresponsive to anything outside of her own psychedelic world.[[/note]]

* The Terras cause this to happen to the Burners on Halloween in ''{{WesternAnimation/Motorcity}}''. They release a special gas that forces them to see their biggest fears: comedic ones for Texas and Claire [[spoiler: giant candy and being married to Chuck]], respectively; serious ones for Mike and Julie [[spoiler: his past working for Kane and her father finding out she's a Burner]].

** In "Selma's Choice", Bart dares Lisa to drink some of the "water" from a boat ride at Duff Gardens (which is so polluted, it doesn't really look like water anymore- either that or said water is actually beer). Once she does, she starts to hallucinate (starting with the Dutch dolls on the "Little Land of Duff" ride receding down a dark, endless hallway), becomes paranoid after seeing a monster grow from Selma's arm, tries to whack Bart and Aunt Selma with a boat oar, stumbles around the Duff Lite Parade commenting on how she can "see the music," and is found hours later after security saw her swimming naked in the Fermentarium, clad in only a towel and declaring herself, "[[Music/TheDoors The Lizard Queen.]]"
** In "Weekend at Burnsie's", when Homer starts smoking medicinal weed, he opens his bathroom's door with a 60's-style happy face, grabs a razor with a happy face, sees rainbows coming out of his beard, and then he gets on his car (with a happy face too!), under a pink sky and the smiling sun, his car takes off, and he drives away -- all with Donovan's "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" playing.

** In "Boy Scoutz 'N The Hood" where Bart finds a twenty-dollar bill. He and Milhouse buy an "all-syrup Squishee," which causes them to [[GRatedDrug behave drunk]] out of an extreme sugar rush and also causes the show to segue into one of the most memorable songs of the series. And towards the end of the song, it causes the boys to ''hallucinate''. [[spoiler: In reality, they end up joining the [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Junior Campers]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' - Hank accidentally pokes himself with a [[PoisonedWeapons drug-tipped shoe spike]] of Molotov Cocktease's, and starts hallucinating, finally attacking his dad with a papier-mache sword.

* The CIA experimented heavily with LSD during the Cold war, including the infamous MKULTRA mind control research. It got to the point where getting secretly dosed was a routine part of life as an agent.

* While the Kid in ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}'' doesn't really take anything, wandering around in Jawson Bog (which the Kid is warned about before hand that "That place'll eat your mind") eventually causes him to start having some rather disturbing hallucinations ([[MissionControlIsOffItsMeds including the narrator Rucks sounding more unhinged and hostile]],) hinting at the Kid suffering from SurvivorsGuilt.

** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'': When Batman takes the League of Assassin's trials by drinking some of the Lazarus Pit, the liquid's effect has him suddenly in a desert like landscape where he has to follow Ra Al Ghul and fight several clones of him before he can pass. The battle against Ra also takes place in the same landscape for some reason. Also while not drug related, the side mission with The Mad Hatter has undertones of this via his mind control mask.

** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', as Scarecrow is the main BigBad of the story, this pops up a few times such as in the intro sequence where he tests a new fear toxin on a diner causing everyone to hallucinate seeing zombies attacking them. [[spoiler: Batman gets sprayed with the toxin a few times, causing him to see Joker for the rest of the game as well as what he thinks is Barbara/Oracle's death in the middle of it as well as a few mind screw sequences such as battling dozens of Jokers where he's eventually forced to confront breaking his one rule: killing someone.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' had delirium shrooms, which showed up in the beta versions, but were never used in the final game(though some user-made level packs, such as Bloody Pulp Fiction use them). They caused the camera to wobble and sound to distort for a few seconds, rendering the game almost unplayable.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}} Too!'' has the final stages of the game, Cicada Night Fever. The ''entire level'' is one hell of an acid trip- the platforms are unnaturally colourful, the background contains Dali's clocks, you fight toads (from the first game) and floating Cheshire Cats, and the FinalBoss? Three of that smoking caterpillar from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''... while deadly popcorn rains down from the sky.
* In ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', you can make the main character smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol and even do drugs. The cigarettes make him cough and lose health. The booze actually increases health a little, but makes vision worse. The drug (called "Zyme") has no effect on health, but screws up your vision for a long time.

* Well, hello there, ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}''.

-->'''Claus:''' Everyone's waiting for you. Everyone's waiting to throw rocks at you, spit on you, and make your life hell. Who's "everyone"...? Everyone you love.
** Thankfully for poor Lucas, his next high -- the return of the Saturns' coffee from the ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' -- is much less horrific.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'''s expansion, "Point Lookout", features an encounter with a psychoactive fruit which explodes in the player's face... followed by [[spoiler: having a lobotomy]] while the player character is [[InterfaceScrew hallucinating]].

** Implied in ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'', where Tensay the Shaman makes Takkar drink potions that send him on hallucinatory {{Vision Quest}}s.
** ''Videogame/FarCry5'' continues the tradition via a mind control drug used by the cult. Faith Seed in particular has the ability to speak to in your mind solely through hallucinations.

* In ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'', [[spoiler: Anghel Higure has a condition causing his body to produce hallucinogenic {{pheremones}}... to which [[RequiredSecondaryPowers he is himself not immune]]. His [[CloudCuckooLander odd]] behavior and confusing descriptions of things are both caused by him being on a permanent acid trip.]] ...Though sometimes, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane there seems to be]] [[YourMindMakesItReal more to it]].

* ''VideoGame/KnyttStories'' has ''Don't Eat the Mushroom'', played by LetsPlay/ProtonJon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGvZa3tiYwY here.]] If you eat the mushroom, you go through a series of trippy scenes from [[spoiler:Advertising/{{the Burger King}} over a fiery background to ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'', ''VideoGame/{{The Legend of Zelda|I}}'', and ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' to teleporting crazily all over the screen, to the background being Creator/JimCarrey in the [[Series/SaturdayNightLive "Night at the Roxbury"]] skit, to pleading for help on Creator/{{Nifflas}}' forums and Juni climbing a giant version of herself, all while Haddaway's ''What Is Love?'' plays in a loop in background]]. It also spun off countless imitators.

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'''s ''Citadel'' DLC. This is only what the [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy casino guard]] thinks is the case when Javik claims [[WhileYouWereInDiapers to have met the guard's ancestors while they were living in caves and throwing rocks at wildlife]].

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Chapter 21 is an extended hallucination sequence where Drake witnesses Sully's death, runs through the streets of Cartagena while being pursued by spiders, is attacked by flaming demons, and sees himself being strangled by his own reflection.
** Chapter 21 [[spoiler: is an extended hallucination sequence where Drake witnesses Sully's death, runs through the streets of Cartagena while [[SpiderSwarm being pursued by spiders]], is attacked by fire demons, and sees himself being strangled by his own reflection.]]

* ''VideoGame/Uncharted3DrakesDeception'': In "Dreamers of The Day", Nathan from the fountain in Ubar which turned out to be a hallucinogenic agent that caused King Solomon's disposal. Among the things he hallucinates are an eclipse, Sully getting shot, {{mooks}} being possessed by the Djinn and everything being dizzy.

* The ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheFallOfMetropolis'' sees Metropolis afflicted with a gas that causes {{hallucinations}} to anyone exposed to it. However, the one most affected by its effects, Professor Hamilton, wasn't due to direct effects -- he lost {{an arm|AndALeg}} after a hooker shot him, thinking he was her pimp due to the gas, and it was too badly damaged to be saved.

* ''VideoGame/Uncharted3DrakesDeception'': In "Dreamers of The Day", Nathan drinks some of the springwater from Shambhala which turned out to be a hallucinogenic substance that the townspeople died of and that bad guys are after. Among the things he hallucinates are an eclipse, Sully getting shot, {{mooks}} turning into fire demons while he shoots at them, and the entire setting turning dizzy from his point of view.

* ''VideoGame/UnchartedDrakesDeception'': In "Dreamers of The Day", Nathan drinks some of the springwater from Shambhala which turned out to be a hallucinogenic substance that the townspeople died of and that bad guys are after. Among the things he hallucinates are an eclipse, Sully getting shot, {{mooks}} turning into fire demons while he shoots at them, and the entire setting turning dizzy from his point of view.