The Horrors

WinstonOno · 04-08-2011 12:05PM #1

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 · 04-08-2011 12:09PM

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

deirdre_dub · 04-08-2011 12:09PM

www.aa.org

Seriously.

FunkZ · 04-08-2011 12:09PM

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

foxyboxer · 04-08-2011 12:09PM

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 · 04-08-2011 12:10PM

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 · 04-08-2011 12:10PM

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

FetchTheGin · 04-08-2011 12:10PM

Someone is spiking your drink OP.

sunflower27 · 04-08-2011 12:11PM

What exactly constitutes a 'splurge'?

newballsplease · 04-08-2011 12:13PM

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 · 04-08-2011 12:19PM

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 · 04-08-2011 12:23PM

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 · 04-08-2011 12:27PM

i dont believe you.
shenanigans.

Mickeroo · 04-08-2011 12:28PM

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

IamtheWalrus · 04-08-2011 12:33PM

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 · 04-08-2011 12:38PM

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 · 04-08-2011 12:39PM

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 · 04-08-2011 12:42PM

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 · 04-08-2011 12:44PM

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 · 04-08-2011 12:46PM

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 · 04-08-2011 12:52PM

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 · 04-08-2011 12:53PM

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 · 04-08-2011 12:56PM

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

mackg · 04-08-2011 01:00PM

Definition of horror

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

Ya dig?

Noffles · 04-08-2011 01:01PM

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 · 04-08-2011 01:12PM

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 · 04-08-2011 01:14PM

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 · 04-08-2011 01:18PM

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 · 04-08-2011 01:21PM

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 · 04-08-2011 01:41PM

mackg wrote: »

everybody is different.

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

supersaint3 · 04-08-2011 01:51PM

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???

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