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• Stormi

  on Jun 05, 2012
  at 3:50 pm

  Why are they all laying down? Does Opium make you pass out or something?

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• Caveman

  on Jun 08, 2012
  at 8:38 am

  @Stormi
  Yes…well, sort of. Opium has a tendency to make those use it nod off to sleep. Some people have strange, vivid dreams in this state, and it is believed that a significant proportion of art and literature from the Romantic era was influenced by these “opium dreams”. For an example of a very famous poem which was conceived during an opium dream, copy and paste this web address into your browser:

  http://www.richardhillmusic.co.uk/A Vision in a Dream.htm

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  • Caveman

    on Jun 08, 2012
    at 8:39 am

    Just trying to get the link working properly (I can’t edit my previous post):

    http://www.richardhillmusic.co.uk/A%20Vision%20in%20a%20Dream.htm

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