rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (04/11/84)
My friend has been looking for a word that he claims *does* exist. It is an adjective describing a type of drug that makes you *think* you are having a real experience, but in reality you are not, you are still sitting in the chair in the doctor's office or whereever the drug was administered. The word is NOT 'hallucinogen(ic)', which describes a drug that induces *uncontrolled* hallucinations and illusions. The type of drug he is referring to is supposed to induce a specific state of false reality. Is there a word for this? (I don't think there are drugs that do this yet, but who knows, maybe we've all already taken them, or maybe only I have, or maybe only you have...) -- "You are not morg. You are not I-morg!!!" Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr
rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins) (04/17/84)
An interesting challenge. I looked in my Thesaurus briefly, but couldn't find anything. Does this word imply that the "trip" is under the "control" of the person taking the drug? Does it have to do with projection or externalization or things along those lines? -- Randwulf (Randy Haskins); Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh
rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (04/24/84)
(re: a word referring to a drug which creates controlled illusions in the mind of the user, but not uncontrolled as in "hallucinogen") > An interesting challenge. I looked in my Thesaurus briefly, > but couldn't find anything. Does this word imply that the > "trip" is under the "control" of the person taking the drug? > Does it have to do with projection or externalization or things > along those lines? I meant more along the lines of a mind-controlling drug where *other* people control the illusions. No takers?? -- "An argument is an intellectual process. It isn't the automatic gainsaying of what the other person says." "... Can be." Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr