psychoactive drug experience theme
We are pointedly shown a reasonable idea of what it might be like to be under the influence of one recreational psychoactive drug or another.
Examples
In tz2019e1x09 "Blue Scorpion", we saw how Jeff Storck smoked pot and played the guitar in the course of mourning the loss of his once hippie father.
8 total · 3 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blackmirror7x04 | major | Cameron took LSD on a regular basis. Taking this drug made him somehow made him able to understand the beeping language of the Thronglets. |
| gdtcoc2022e07 | major | A lengthy portion of the conversation concerned the various mind altering substances that the main characters imbued, and that colored their perception of the peculiar events that then followed. They had whiskey, weed, and cocaine laced with some unnamed new chemical concocted by General Gaddafi's former personal physician. |
| ldr2019e3x03 | major | Kivelson started tripping out on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io after taking morphine to numb the pain of a broken arm. In addition to experiencing vivid hallucinations, Kivelson heard what she interpreted as Io itself speaking to her through the dead body of her mission partner Burton. The hallucinations only intensified after Kivelson took amphetamines. |
| gdtcoc2022e06 | minor | It was considered by some that the drug Walter tried gave him a trip, although the viewer knows it actually had a supernatural effect. |
| movie: Rubbers Lover (1996) | minor | A man on an experimental, mind-altering drug hallucinate dust mites crawling all over him. |
| movie: The Brother from Another Planet (1984) | minor | The Brother's seriously tripped out after shooting up some heroin and then smoking pot. |
| rd1988e2x04 | minor | Rimmer described how he had tripped out on space mushrooms surreptitiously administered by Lister. |
| tz2019e1x09 | minor | Jeff smoked pot and played the guitar in the course of mourning the loss of his once hippie father. |