Say i am a movie freak but the good thing is that i do remember story and name of every movie i watch . you might be wondering whats so great about ..ummm definitely there’s nothing great but if you watch 3- 4 movies on an average , remembering names , characters and story of all of them is definitely something worthy to boast . okay , let me recall the last movie which i saw and liked . hmmm yeah , it was “candy “. candy reminds me of one another movie one of my very favorite on “requiem of dream ” , a very popular one , surely you must have heard about it . Uptill ,now you might have guessed why so much fuss about both of them . Right – they both deal with the concept of drugs addiction . Strange na , i am writing down all them rubbish under this title “hallucinogen “. ok, here i am coming directly to the point . i was on orkut visiting the profile of a guy with very long hair . Read his “about me ” . pretty impressive coz he was deliberately confessing that he was an addict . Check out his list of communities and came across this person named – ” Albert Hofmann” . Honestly , never heard heard about him before. Explored more about him and found out that he is considered “the father of LSD.” LSD ?? what the hell is that ? has it got something related to LSB “least significant bit” the technique widely used for stenography . just to add , friends , i amde my minor project in 6th semester of my engineering on stenography . okay , so there i went to wikipedia , searched more and more about him , the LSD , and came across many new terms viz Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants . i really feel strange that a person like me who has never lost consciousness inspite of me taking drinks sometime , and non-smoker , why am i so much interested into these drugs things . Is it a sign of me finally turning into a junky in near future when i fail to get a handsome job . hmmm i really don’t know and neither do i care . ok, Back to the point - to define in very few words hallucinogen will be as follows :
The general group of pharmacological agents commonly known as hallucinogens can be divided into three broad categories: psychedelics, dissociatives, and deliriants. These classes of psychoactive drugs have in common that they can cause subjective changes in perception, thought, emotion and consciousness. Unlike other psychoactive drugs, such as stimulants and opioids, the hallucinogens do not merely amplify familiar states of mind, but rather induce experiences that are qualitatively different from those of ordinary consciousness. These experiences are often compared to non-ordinary forms of consciousness such as trance, meditation, conversion experiences, and dreams.
Now , i won’t make this post more technical or better say biological okay more precisely botanical research kind of post . If you want to know more about it . Have a look at these sites :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entheogen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_drug
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_LSD