Getting high from nature is nothing new. There are incidences of people overdosing on frogs (whether from licking or smoking the milked excretions), going on mushroom-picking camping trips (DO NOT WATCH SHROOMS PRIOR TO DOING THIS), as well as creating herbal mixes to smoke. However in more tropical waters, you may find yourself experiencing both auditory and visual hallucination after ingesting relatively popular species of reef fish in the Mediterraneans, Indian and Pacific Oceans, with reports of folks dealing with altered realities also popping up in Hawaii and the Fiji Islands.

For those who lived in the Roman Empire, their choice of recreational drugs was supposedly a type of bream fish known as Sarpa Salpa or Salema porgy, that produces similar effects of LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) or DMT (dimethyltryptamine) due to the greenry they consume. The eater then experiences a form of icthyoallyeinotoxism or getting super high off the act of first consuming and then poisoning oneself with some trippy fish. This may explain some of those epic Roman myths that exist even now…or the orgies.

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literally what every drunken frat party aspires to be

These fish are apparently tasty enough to be on the menu around the Mediterranean nowadays as well.

In 2006, two men were hospitalized after consuming some sarpa salpa at a popular restaurant. A study then popped up shortly by Luc de Haro and Philippe Pommier that examined the effects of the accidental thirty-six hour bender explaining that while these fish were normally very edible, there is a high possibility that if these fish happen to consume a specific type of algae, their flesh could make you see melting rainbow skulls.

This being said, please do not go out and find fish, frogs, or any other of the things mentioned above to see if you can induce a similar hallucinogenic state. In the case of the salema pogy, these hallucinations are supposed to bring about three days of hell-filled nightmares and terrifying visuals. Do not forget that there is a toxic portion which includes bouts of nausea,vertigo, lack of motor control..also, hallucinations will only appear IF your fish happens to have eaten that particular kind of plant containing the chemicals adjacent to LSD AND in an amount sufficient enough to give you vision.

Sounds like a whole shitload of work for not a very good time. Better just toke up and eat a sandwich instead while you watch this video of these shiny, possibly trip-worthy fish swim around to techno.

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