[kj] OT~ sleep paralysis.BORING!!!

[Brendan Quinn]

This should be worth a laugh:

 

Top 10 bizarre experiments: Number 1

What happens if you give an elephant LSD? Researchers solved this mystery on
Friday 3 August 1962, when Warren Thomas, director of Lincoln Park Zoo in
Oklahoma City, fired a cartridge-syringe containing 297 milligrams of LSD
into the rump of Tusko the elephant. With Thomas were two colleagues from
the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, Louis Jolyon West and Chester
M. Pierce.

The dose was about 3000 times what a human would typically take. Thomas,
West and Pierce figured that if they were going to give an elephant LSD
they'd better not give it too little. They later explained that the
experiment was designed to find out if LSD would induce musth in an elephant
- musth being a kind of temporary madness male elephants sometimes
experience during which they become highly aggressive and secrete a sticky
fluid from their temporal glands. One may also suspect a small element of
ghoulish curiosity was involved.

Whatever the reason for the experiment, it almost immediately went awry.
Tusko reacted as if he had been shot by a gun. He trumpeted around his pen
for a few minutes and then keeled over. Horrified, the researchers tried to
revive him with a variety of antipsychotics, but about an hour later he was
dead. In an article published four months after the event (Science, vol 138,
p 1100), the three scientists sheepishly concluded: "It appears that the
elephant is highly sensitive to the effects of LSD."

The experiment instantly made headlines. Faced with a public relations
disaster, the scientists protested their innocence. They had not anticipated
the elephant would die, they insisted. In their experience, LSD was a
powerful hallucinogen but rarely fatal. West and Pierce helpfully noted that
they themselves had previously taken the drug.

Thomas tried to find a silver lining. They had learned that LSD can be
lethal to elephants. So perhaps, he mused, the drug could be used to destroy
herds in countries where they are a problem. For some reason, his suggestion
has never found any takers.

 

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of melinda grant
Sent: Friday, 8 February 2008 10:48 a.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] OT~ sleep paralysis.BORING!!!

 

THIS THREAD IS GETTING--BORING---GOT ANY OTHER NEWS EVERYONE?


> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:38:04 -0800

> From: angrytomhanks at yahoo.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] OT~ sleep paralysis?

> 

> The paralysis part, yeah. A few different times in my life. Takes about 10

or 20 seconds to wear off. Never the sound/fear thing though.

> 

> Leigh

> 

> 

> ----- Original Message ----

> From: bongo <humanhybrid666 at gmail.com>

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

<gathering at misera.net>

> Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 2:28:54 PM

> Subject: [kj] OT~ sleep paralysis?

> 

> 

> anyone 

> here 

> ever 

> had 

> sleep 

> paralysis??

> this 

> subject 

> may 

> have 

> come 

> up 

> years 

> ago, 

> but 

> there's 

> a 

> fresh 

> new 

> crop

> of 

> gatherers 

> here 

> now...

> 

> it 

> seemed 

> to 

> be 

> more 

> of 

> a 

> talking 

> point/phenomenon 

> 5 

> or 

> so 

> years 

> ago,

> but 

> with 

> all 

> the 

> googling 

> i 

> done 

> i 

> still 

> couldn't 

> find 

> a 

> plausible

> explanation 

> for 

> it...

> 

> for 

> those 

> unaware 

> of 

> it, 

> it 

> was 

> waking 

> up, 

> unable 

> to 

> move 

> a 

> muscle,

> with 

> a 

> creepng 

> noise/sensation 

> that 

> started 

> at 

> the 

> feet 

> and 

> worked 

> its

> way 

> up 

> the 

> body... 

> the 

> noise 

> got 

> louder 

> the 

> higher 

> it 

> got, 

> with 

> an

> accompanying 

> rise 

> in 

> fear, 

> with 

> the 

> feeling 

> that 

> if 

> it 

> crept 

> as 

> high

> as 

> your 

> head, 

> it 

> will 

> surely 

> mean 

> death!

> there 

> were 

> various 

> explanations 

> i 

> read, 

> but 

> none 

> seemed 

> to 

> account 

> for

> the 

> noise/fear 

> part 

> of 

> it...

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> -- 

> 

> 

> "due 

> to 

> a 

> lack 

> of 

> trained 

> trumpeters, 

> the 

> end 

> of 

> the 

> world 

> has 

> been

> postponed 

> indefinitely..."

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