The Horrors

WinstonOno

I was reading the thread about hangover cures and it got me thinking about nights (and days) i've spent in the horrors. I've had manys a bad one, from feeling like the walls are bending in and about to fall on top of me, to hearing whispers under the bed.
A particularly strange one was a big mouse with a bale of straw on his back who was making his way slowly across the room, and every few steps he would stop and look directly at me and wink!! Twas a while till I touched the sauce after that one I tell ya.
Was wondering if any boardsies have had any similar 'in the horrors' experiences or know what causes them?? By the way im not an alco, just like the odd 'splurge'

Long time reader, first time poster!!

petes

You need to stop boozing!! And this is coming from a drinker!

deirdre_dub

www.aa.org

Seriously.

FunkZ

Are you sure you're not drinking pints of LSD instead of alcohol?!

foxyboxer

I was flying back from the States last year. On the flight I had a few Jack and Coke and prompty fell asleep.

I woke a few hours later in a dark and silent cabin, in a cold sweat and silently panicked for about 2 minutes. I didn't know where I was and how I got there. Pure claustrophobia as I was wedged in between 2 people in economy which made it worse.

wild_cat

I hear what your saying.

Worst one I ever had was when I was spiked with ketamine (I have some great friends :mad:).

Psychosis themed with brutal hangover puking. I actually wasn't right for the bones of a month after it.

Birneybau

Great band, you should check out their new album "Skying"!

FetchTheGin

Someone is spiking your drink OP.

sunflower27

What exactly constitutes a 'splurge'?

newballsplease

I usually lie in the bed..duvet over the head wondering 'what the f**k did i say to that person last night?'


It goes after about 2 days! then you do it all over again!

WinstonOno

sunflower27 wrote: »

What exactly constitutes a 'splurge'?

Goin out on a saturday night, staying in a mates house, he then 'drags' you to the pub at 11 o'clock the next morning, where things quickly get out of hand!! The horrors would usually occur on the monday night. Seriously, im not an alco!!

Logical Fallacy

WinstonOno wrote: »

Goin out on a saturday night, staying in a mates house, he then 'drags' you to the pub at 11 o'clock the next morning, where things quickly get out of hand!! The horrors would usually occur on the monday night. Seriously, im not an alco!!

You are drinking a fair whack to suffer from hallucinations, as they are commonly associated with alcohol withdrawal.

I used to drink plenty and i have to say, i never got hallucinations during a hangover.

FatherLen

i dont believe you.
shenanigans.

Mickeroo

Sounds like a bad old visit from the Onion Man OP.

IamtheWalrus

FatherLen wrote: »

i dont believe you.
shenanigans.

The same things happens me OP. I've had some truly horrible experiences of the horrors. It's a common occurrence. It's your body reacting to a lack of alcohol. If I have a heavy weekend, I get them terrible on the Sunday night, then lighter on the Monday but very little sleep. It's only on Tuesday night I feel human again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens

Ghandee

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

The same things happens me OP. I've had some truly horrible experiences of the horrors. It's a common occurrence. It's your body reacting to a lack of alcohol. If I have a heavy weekend, I get them terrible on the Sunday night, then lighter on the Monday but very little sleep. It's only on Tuesday night I feel human again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens

Id prefer to be that 'human' on a Tues, as opposed to feeling like a Walrus the other 6 nights tbh.

Is female Walrus lady bits any fishier than humans?

mackg

Yeah the horrors, you think everyone is making it out to be way worse than it is until you get them. I can never sleep properly for about 2 days after heavy drinking, then I get this weird half asleep half awake hallucinations. MAD LAUGH.

You are drinking a fair whack to suffer from hallucinations, as they are commonly associated with alcohol withdrawal.

I used to drink plenty and i have to say, i never got hallucinations during a hangover.

everybody is different.

IamtheWalrus

Ghandee wrote: »

Id prefer to be that 'human' on a Tues, as opposed to feeling like a Walrus the other 6 nights tbh.

Is female Walrus lady bits any fishier than humans?

What a god-awful post.

pragmatic1

Only had a proper dose of the horrors once. Extemely unpleasant experience. People would come into my room and touch my face. Like something from trainspotting.

Juicyfruit

I got them once on a Sunday night after an exceptionally hard days drinking the night before. Never really believed my boyfriend when he talked about getting them

Was horrible, half awake half asleep feeling, felt like I was being dragged out of my bed and people were in my room and just felt really ineasy. Was trying to shout out but couldn't. When I finally woke properly and was able to say anything I had to call my sister in cause I was so freaked out!

haydar

I get them after 3 or 4 days on the beer. Huge spiders coming down on their web and landing on my face or feeling like I am being choked. Horrible. Dont get them as much as I used to though....thank God.

mackg

If you drank lots of red bull the night before it's even worse, I thought my heart was gonna burst out of my chest on one occasion. I used have the attic room right above my friends bedroom and he told me he used to be able to hear me tossing and turning at all hours on a Monday night.

Gillington

I wonder where that phrase "The Horrors" came from?

mackg

Definition of horror

1. An intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust.
2. A thing causing such a feeling.

Ya dig?

Noffles

Get them after heavy drinking fairly often... the walls falling in is a favourite, also is the I'm losing my job, wife and house at exactly the same time... right about the time I'm thinking of it... also that people are going to get me and beat me up... no one specific... anyone... awful... the waking the next day is lovely...

pragmatic1

Noffles wrote: »

Get them after heavy drinking fairly often... the walls falling in is a favourite, also is the I'm losing my job, wife and house at exactly the same time... right about the time I'm thinking of it... also that people are going to get me and beat me up... no one specific... anyone... awful... the waking the next day is lovely...

Thats just nightmares. For the horrors you're semi-awake.

Noffles

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Thats just nightmares. For the horrors you're semi-awake.

I finished incorrectly, waking the next day clear headed is nice, the dread I described happens the previous day until I fall asleep.

Sykk

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens

This explains it better than wikipedia ever could

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3sY4t57qoI

Micky Dolenz

newballsplease wrote: »

I usually lie in the bed..duvet over the head wondering 'what the f**k did i say to that person last night?'


It goes after about 2 days! then you do it all over again!

I hate that feeling. I call it "the fear".

Logical Fallacy

mackg wrote: »

everybody is different.

True, some people drink themselves to the point of suffering withdrawal and others don't.

supersaint3

haydar wrote: »

I get them after 3 or 4 days on the beer. Huge spiders coming down on their web and landing on my face or feeling like I am being choked. Horrible. Dont get them as much as I used to though....thank God.

You and me are the same, why must it always be spiders???

Blondie919

OP, twice in the space of 15 minutes you told us that you're not an "alco". Sounds like denial to me. I think you should stop drinking, at least try it for a while. And I wonder, is your username a play on words? The first two letters and the last two letters spell "Wino".

Green Back

WinstonOno wrote: »

Goin out on a saturday night, staying in a mates house, he then 'drags' you to the pub at 11 o'clock the next morning, where things quickly get out of hand!! The horrors would usually occur on the monday night. Seriously, im not an alco!!

You need to give up the second day of boozing, from a cost (the horrors, impact on the start of the working week, money etc.)/benefit (the craic) point of view it just isnt worth it. Choose to go drinking Sat or Sun but not both.
I used to do it most weekends, it wasnt worth it in the end. I'd end up spending a lot of money and the start of a new week would be a write off. Come friday I'd be back to full health and do it to myself all over again.
And if you cant stop may be you should consider whether you do have an issue with alcolhol.

WinstonOno

For a minute there, I thought I was the only one to get them, was thinking maybe I am an alco!! Its happened me a handful of times, and most of my mates, so thought it was a common enough experience. Don't really drink anymore, just cant handle the hangovers, so mainly got them when I was younger and was drinking more than I could handle. Horrible experiece tho, not asleep, not awake, sweating, nightmares!! alcohol is the devils juice!!

RichieC

I do be usually just feeling a bit on edge after a sesh, I've never hallucinated, though.

Colin4May

Weirdest thing for me, is I feel really randy when I have a massive hangover... and of course as soon as you start to do anything about it.. like move on your girlfriend snopring next to you... the blood starts pumping, and I almost black out! Cruel!

gazzer

I've never had hallunications after a hard weekend partying (well not from alcohol anyway).

Just end up sleeping for most of the next day. The only thing Alcohol seems to do to me is turn me into an energetic drunk followed by feeling wrecked for a day or 2 afterwards. Then again i only go out drinking one day out of every 2 or 3 weeks lately.

Blondie919

WinstonOno wrote: »

For a minute there, I thought I was the only one to get them, was thinking maybe I am an alco!! Its happened me a handful of times, and most of my mates, so thought it was a common enough experience. Don't really drink anymore, just cant handle the hangovers, so mainly got them when I was younger and was drinking more than I could handle. Horrible experiece tho, not asleep, not awake, sweating, nightmares!! alcohol is the devils juice!!

It is a terrible experience, I got it once early in my drinking days and its damn scary. Its alcohol poisoning simple as. It poisons the mind. I wish I knew that years ago, but at least I know it now.

opelastra

only got it a handful of times myself. The worst i ever got was when that evil leprechaun was standing at the bottom of my bed with a knife and a big evil grin on his face. I woke sitting up on my bed pointing at "him" and shouting "dont come f*cking near me with that knife"

Hawk Wing 2

WinstonOno wrote: »

I was reading the thread about hangover cures and it got me thinking about nights (and days) i've spent in the horrors. I've had manys a bad one, from feeling like the walls are bending in and about to fall on top of me, to hearing whispers under the bed.
A particularly strange one was a big mouse with a bale of straw on his back who was making his way slowly across the room, and every few steps he would stop and look directly at me and wink!! Twas a while till I touched the sauce after that one I tell ya.
Was wondering if any boardsies have had any similar 'in the horrors' experiences or know what causes them?? By the way im not an alco, just like the odd 'splurge'

Long time reader, first time poster!!

went on a 2 week bender in Ibiza a few years ago, I had severe dt's for 2 or 3 nights when I came home, I woke the first night actually climbing the walls trying to turn on the light to escape from a nightmare where there were rats after me, the rats and vicious dog hallucinations contiued for another 2 days aswell as sweating buckets of sweat and hearing voices when I went to bed, the best way is to gradually decrease the amount of alcohol you drink in those situations, even now after 2 or 3 days on the sauce I get mild dt's

ceadaoin.

WinstonOno wrote: »

I was reading the thread about hangover cures and it got me thinking about nights (and days) i've spent in the horrors. I've had manys a bad one, from feeling like the walls are bending in and about to fall on top of me, to hearing whispers under the bed.
A particularly strange one was a big mouse with a bale of straw on his back who was making his way slowly across the room, and every few steps he would stop and look directly at me and wink!! Twas a while till I touched the sauce after that one I tell ya.
Was wondering if any boardsies have had any similar 'in the horrors' experiences or know what causes them?? By the way im not an alco, just like the odd 'splurge'

Long time reader, first time poster!!

How much do you be drinking for this to happen? Is a 'splurge' a week long bender or something? I've had my fair share of hangovers in the past but nothing like this. Sounds like what people get when they're going through withdrawal symptoms.

Stop Lad!

I get that horrible 'not asleep not awake' thing too when im sleepin off the hangover during the day, and wake up with my heart pounding and feeling anxious for a reason I dont even know.... pure torture. Also been there a couple times with the whole seeing faces in the walls and feeling of other people in the room thing, only after a disgraceful feed of liqour tho!

Air_Bass

Wow OP, either you've been getting spiked frequently or else drinking SERIOUS quantities of spirits non-stop all weekend.
Are you on medication or combining booze with psychoactive drugs ??
I've been on 3, 4 and 5 day 'splurges' and never experienced anything like you describe. Sure enough there'd be combinations of confusion, bluesiness, randiness and that horrible combination of tiredness mixed with the inability to sleep but not the vivid hallucinations you describe.
I'd suggest taking the drinking down a few notches or else go drinking with different buddies and see how things work out.

naasface

Yep. I've had them. Spent 2 and a half months working in Lagos.

Worked every night in a bar drinking during work, before and after.

Had the shakes every day till I had a drink and had hallucinations a couple of times worst was when the fan in my room started talking to me telling me everyone hated me and stuff...scary!!

When I came home I had the shakes for bout 2 wks my mam was freaked out!

Grand now tho still get the shakes with a hangover if it was a big one

Slunk

Got them a few times. Horrible. Used to think i could hear a mouse going across the wooden floor. Id get up and search te room. Nothingg back to bed, toss and turn then it would walk across the floor again. ****in melt.

FetchTheGin

Had them a good few times, think they are getting worse too.

nice_very

meh, amateurs :rolleyes:

JeanLucPicard

I have had them too.

The horrors come from a heavy drinking spell.

E.G Beginning on Thursday straight through til Sunday. Sunday night will be fine...possibly Monday too. Then I'm afraid to go to bed Tuesday.....

I never had the spiders....its a room full of wasps is what comes for me. And things appearing to move around the room. Horrid sweats and if you do finally sleep the worst nightmares possible.....

It's a horrible thing to go through... Used to get them after bonging Buckfast or Nobleman. Only thing worse is a bad acid trip.. I had a horrific one and wasn't right for months.

syklops

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

You are drinking a fair whack to suffer from hallucinations, as they are commonly associated with alcohol withdrawal.

I used to drink plenty and i have to say, i never got hallucinations during a hangover.

Well it depends what you call a hangover. As I said over in the hangover thread. If a bottle of Lucozade sport or a cold shower cures it, then its not a hangover you have.

Just like if 2 neurofen fix it, its not a migraine you have, its a headache.

Epicness

I thought this was about the band The Horrors, I am disappointed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJQk0jDZx8o