Flying hallucination

Numbness and tingling of the limbs, twitching of the facial muscles, inability to coordinate muscular activity, nausea, visual hallucinations, and a deep stupor are characteristic. Macroscopia is frequent, entering into Waika belief about the spirits that dwell within the plant. Levitation, or a sensation of floating in air or flying, is reported. 

Stimulation - excitatory amino acids -headache, confusion, hallucinations Red alga (red tide), Green alga Mushrooms - Amanita family (fly agaric), flat pea [Lathyrus] Kainic acid, domoic acid -concentrated in shellfish, Ibotenic acid, muscarinic acid, (hallucinations) Latthyrism - motor neuron degeneration... 

I have not had drug-induced psychedelic experiences, although many people who read my Neoreality books seem to think I have had chemically enhanced hallucinations. In some sense, I have to put a damper on my creativity and visions. Some of my publishers even tell me I write too much and should slow down. Nevertheless, my mind, visions, and ideas continually fly. As Salvador Dali said, I am the drug ... 

The solanaceae alkaloids and other other sources of antimuscarinics affect the CNS. They can produce hallucinations in addition to their effects on the peripheral nervous system. Witchcraft of the Middle Ages produced mixtures of plants - deadly nightshade, monkshood, and hemlock among them - as "flying ointments". The combined toxins disturbed the rhythm of the heart and led to delirium which could create a sensation of rising and falling, that is, flying. 

The best that poor old Freud could do with flying dreams was to argue that they represented displaced sexual desire. Freud s rebus, you will recall, was that unconscious wishes - and sexual wishes needed to be kept unconscious - escaped the censor s denunciation when the ego was weakened by sleep. If the now free-to-be-expressed sexual impulses were not disguised, by the pleasurable but not sexual hallucination of flying, the dreamer would be awakened by the consciousness of these forbidden desires. Freud never mentioned his own sexual dreams. Perhaps he never had any - or never remembered them. But this is unlikely. And any research participant - or any of his patients - could have told him that sexual dreams, complete with orgasm, occur in the very same people who enjoy flying dreams. 

While the usage of Amanita muscaria among Siberian tribes has generated reports of spectacular hallucinations, European accounts of fly agaric intoxications do not generally include descriptions of such intensely hallucinatory effects. 

Tropane Alkaloids found in plants of the family Solanaceae, especially Datura suaveokns, Brupismansia and Brunsfdsia species. The alkaloid Hyoscine (scopolamine) in high doses can cause hallucinations giving the sensation of flying through the air, hence... 

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