The Horrors

Blondie919 · 04-08-2011 01:52PM

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 · 04-08-2011 01:52PM

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 · 04-08-2011 02:03PM

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 · 04-08-2011 02:09PM

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

Colin4May · 04-08-2011 02:12PM

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 · 04-08-2011 02:14PM

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 · 04-08-2011 02:17PM

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 · 04-08-2011 02:30PM

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 · 04-08-2011 02:40PM

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. · 04-08-2011 02:55PM

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! · 04-08-2011 03:01PM

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 · 04-08-2011 03:01PM

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 · 04-08-2011 03:03PM

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 · 04-08-2011 03:19PM

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 · 04-08-2011 03:26PM

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

nice_very · 04-08-2011 03:26PM

meh, amateurs :rolleyes:

JeanLucPicard · 04-08-2011 03:43PM

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.....

04-08-2011 03:58PM

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 · 04-08-2011 04:21PM

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 · 04-08-2011 05:04PM

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

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

JONJO THE MISER · 04-08-2011 05:12PM

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 can relate to that:D

DonJose · 04-08-2011 05:34PM

One night after a good few scoops me and the girlfriend went back to my place. I woke up in the middle of the night, the bedroom was pitch black and I could see a red light in the middle of the wall, images of aliens and spaceships came to mind. I didn't know what the light was but it freaked me out, I jumped up in bed and started panicing, I kept saying, "Look at that, can you see that." pointing at the light still panicing, the girlfriend woke up and I was still saying, "Can you see the light, can you see the red light." She sat up and looked at the light and said, "Yeah I can see the light, its the light from the tele ye dope."

vampire of kilmainham · 05-08-2011 05:42AM

well seriousley i looked up from under the blanket and up at the fireplace and i seen the pope an john f kenneddy and maggie thatcher stareing me in the face ian paisley was saying the rosery an mother teresa was on the pill an the child of prague and jesus mary an joseph were dancing on the mantlepiece the rats were trying to count the sheep and i was floatin around the room and i theought i was harry potter flyen on a broom well ill tell ya now ill never again will touch a drop then i drempt there was no duty free left down in knock so i went back down into the blanket so i could see no more and i woke up in a mushroom field in gortalocka after fallin into a fairy ring

DEFTLEFTHAND · 05-08-2011 05:58AM

Have experienced paranoia, anxiety and depression after some long drinking sessions 2-3 days, but it usually passes within 24 hours.

Stop Lad! · 05-08-2011 08:10AM

vampire of kilmainham wrote: »

well seriousley i looked up from under the blanket and up at the fireplace and i seen the pope an john f kenneddy and maggie thatcher stareing me in the face ian paisley was saying the rosery an mother teresa was on the pill an the child of prague and jesus mary an joseph were dancing on the mantlepiece the rats were trying to count the sheep and i was floatin around the room and i theought i was harry potter flyen on a broom well ill tell ya now ill never again will touch a drop then i drempt there was no duty free left down in knock so i went back down into the blanket so i could see no more and i woke up in a mushroom field in gortalocka after fallin into a fairy ring

hahahaha, some serious hardcore horrors there!

ronan45 · 05-08-2011 08:15AM

Hmmm I find the few hours of mindless pleasure you get from a good session is sometimes outweighed by the results the next day.

Wake Up feeling Knackered,
Cant recall what was going on
Feeling sickly in your tummy
Lost wallets, phones

Full day of recovering half a weekend wasted :mad:

newbee22 · 05-08-2011 09:01AM

I call this the fear,had a mad night out Saturday, Sunday I was ok, but Monday and Tuesday thought I was gonna die, cold sweats, hot sweats, paranoia. Thats why I'm on a detox now for a few weeks!:p

WinstonOno · 05-08-2011 09:11AM

vampire of kilmainham wrote: »

well seriousley i looked up from under the blanket and up at the fireplace and i seen the pope an john f kenneddy and maggie thatcher stareing me in the face ian paisley was saying the rosery an mother teresa was on the pill an the child of prague and jesus mary an joseph were dancing on the mantlepiece the rats were trying to count the sheep and i was floatin around the room and i theought i was harry potter flyen on a broom well ill tell ya now ill never again will touch a drop then i drempt there was no duty free left down in knock so i went back down into the blanket so i could see no more and i woke up in a mushroom field in gortalocka after fallin into a fairy ring

Christy knew what I was talking about!!

Micky Dolenz · 05-08-2011 09:49AM

I think it gets worse the older you get. Hangovers I can live with, the booze blues are a different kettle of hamsters and part of the reason I don't drink near as much as I used to.

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