psychoactive fish.
Abudefduf septemfasciatus (Sergeant major) Pacific Ocean, Africa
: Epinephelus corallicola (Grouper) Pacific Ocean
: Kyphosus cinerascens (Bluefish) Indonesia
: Kyphosus vaigiensis (Brass bream) Indonesia
: Mugil cephalus (Flathead mullet) The tropics
: Mulloidichtys samoensis (Golden goatfish) Indonesia
: Neomyxus chaptali (Mullet) Indonesia
: Saganus oramin (Rabbitfish) Indonesia, West Africa
: Upeneus arge (Goatfish) Indonesia
Roughly (1960)
described the dream fish present near Norfolk island. The inhabitants
stated consuming this fish would produce nightmares. In order to test
this claim, Joe Roberts, National Geographic photographer, consumed
some of the fish, broiled. The next morning he reported "It was pure
science fiction." He saw a new kind of car, pictures of monuments to
mark man's first trip into space. The fish is Kyphosus fuscus,
closely related to the silver drummer caught off New South Wales.
The author, Roughly, also tried the fish and had weird dreams.'
Ichthyoallyeinotoxism is a rare kind of food poisoning contracted following the ingestion of fish. The responsible toxins are unknown, and the clinical feature is characterized by the development of CNS disturbances, especially hallucinations and nightmares. As the implicated fish species may be also related to ciguatera poisoning, there may be possible confusion between the two fish-borne intoxications. In order to clarify this, the literature pertaining to "dreamfish" was reviewed and two cases are presented. A 40-year-old man experienced mild digestive troubles and terrifying visual and auditory hallucinations after eating a specimen of Sarpa salpa in a restaurant. As he had severe behaviour troubles, he was managed in the hospital and recovered 36 h after the meal. He was unable to recall the hallucinatory period. Another man, 90-years-old and previously healthy, had auditory hallucinations 2 h after eating a specimen of Sarpa salpa. The two following nights, he had numerous nightmares and recovered spontaneously after a period of 3 days.
That's right. Fishy droogs.