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The Most Unpleasant Deliriants in History

What makes a drug unpleasant isn't the danger. It's waking up two days later to find out you'd been talking to someone who died six years ago. It's shadows at the edge of a bedroom you've slept in your whole life. It's six minutes in which the concept of being a person briefly stops being available. This is the history of deliriants and why they've been terrifying people in every culture, on every continent, since before anyone had a word for what they were.This is probably best listened to at night, half awake, while your brain slowly starts questioning whether that shadow in the corner was…

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