acid dreams: animated hallucinations on film and in cartoons


It was an episode of The Simpsons where Homer trips on a “Guatemalan pepper” that made me want to gather cartoon depictions of drug hallucinations. Of course that clip – like many – is unavailable online (outside a bad 15 second fragment). Still, animation seemed to me the perfect medium to conjure the phantasmagoric, wonky acid visions of the psychedelic mind so I EXHAUSTIVELY searched. The parameters were narrow: everything had to be free and accessible on Youtube. Hours and hours and hours of looking. What you’ve got here is the best in an eclectic mix that includes cartoons (knowing and innocent) and animated films, stuff both old and new. While I loathe Family Guy and Seth McFarland (stupid frat boy), there’s a clip of Brian high on shrooms I couldn’t resist. Ok, all ye townfolk of janestown, thats the spiel. Enjoy!

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