[garinda]

Probably wrote it before, so sorry if I'm boring you.

I was on some drugs two years ago that gave me hallucinations. I mainly saw rats, or things running up the walls. However, whilst watching television one night there was an old man sat in the room with me, shouting wildly in tongues. I could still give a description of him for an identi-kit picture now. Fly away grey hair, black suit with dandruff, collarless shirt, boots.

It seemed so real, but knowing that it wasn't really there I closed my eyes and after five minutes or so the man disappeared.

At the time I was having weekly acupuncture sessions. The woman I went to asked how I'd been that week, and I told her about the hallucinations and the old man. It turned out that her Grandfather, an ex-landlord of the Tinker and Budget, used to live in my house. As a child she remembered him as someone who shouted a lot. Spooky.

She left me on the bed full of needles, and went off to find a photograph of her Grandfather. If she came back and it was the old man I'd seen, I would have believed in ghosts, and would have probably put my house up for sale right away.

Thankfully her Grandfather looked nothing like my shouty old git.

The mysteries of the mind....and mind altering drugs.