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Speaking of Ketamine

A blog post at Nouse, the York U's newspaper, tells the tale of campus life and drug use. The following snippet caught my eye in the search engines:

On my visit back home I got stories of old friends from old friends. Someone installed in London, who, having tried ketamine for the first time, went messianic, stumbling into the middle of Shaftesbury Avenue proclaiming he could control the traffic, which was dodging him, horns blazing.

I found this interesting because I know a crazy person who loves to stand on corners at busy intersections and "control the traffic". I have heard police say this is a common thing for schizophrenic or bipolar people to do. I have also had this "traffic control" urge on K, but it was more a fascination with watching or listening to traffic as opposed to a belief that I could control it.

Of course, if you are dodging in and out of lanes of oncoming cars you actually can control the traffic, just not in a good way. Not recommended for newbies.

Posted By jamesk at 2008-06-11 11:53:53 permalink | comments
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l'arancia clik-clak. : 2008-06-13 13:27:39
There's some traffic-light related accounts relating to varied forms of alien activity, all of them strange and not very clear as to what they relate to. The common theme being that there's something about traffic lights and aliens, and it scares people if presented in a particular way. That interested me when I found out about it (it's mentioned in some Streiber books) because back when I was about 2 or 3 and watching something like Starsky & Hutch or Chips or some other US TV 70s cop show, after the credits this traffic light image flashed up onscreen and it had evil faces in the lights, and it freaked me out.

Later, I read about the Nuremberg trials and the various government conspiracies (still ongoing, files still sealed, the usual) regarding Hess, and that when he and others were answering questions at the trials they had to use these weird traffic-light style controllers to signal their replies.

Of course, what could be occuring here is that the 'primitive mind regression' is tapping into the collective unconscious, into all the thought repositories of the many folks who did used to direct traffic for a living, before that became an automated lights-controlled thing, and that they are playing out the leftover energies, all the undone moves that were ended physically but had much mental energy still left there, awaiting execution of the expected stored actions of traffic direction.
What else do actual schizophrenics do, but tap into the collective unconscious mind of everyones else.

Oh the folly of thinking that you can have a thought that goes un-noticed. Somewhere, someone will be recording that waveform and spinning its yarn into silken threads to weave dreams with.

jamesk : 2008-06-11 15:18:40
The robomessiah was not like that, he sort of shuffled around in bare feet and grumbled incoherently about invisible oppressive forces keeping him down. He did think he had found the answer to humanity's suffering, which was DXM, but he never wandered into traffic as far as I know.
cdin. : 2008-06-11 14:56:09
man, if i had a dollar for every messianic delusion recieved from nmda antagonists... id have at least 20 dollars...
Anonymous. : 2008-06-11 12:36:38
Didn't you do a story/series of stories about the Robomessiah a few years back. I seem to remember you posting something about that, back in the USENET days...


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