Katweezel,
When I read … "Raoul Duke: [commenting on the song "One Toke Over the Line" playing on the radio] One toke? You poor fool! Wait till you see those goddamn bats."
It was in the mid 1960's and I was deep into one of the craziest trips ever. I was mind-raped by a homosexual, whose advances I had rebuffed; and was dosed with the rare psychedelic — "S.T.P." … 2,5,dimethoxy4,methylamphetamine. I was wondering around the deserted streets of a small town in Florida in the wee hrs. and the hallucinations were intense, and they included bats, rats, U.F.O.'s, etc.
The strongest hallucinogen ever created (by the C.I.A. no less) The half-life is approx. a WEEK ! Not only does it leave you completely utterly psychotic for a day (not < 4 hrs. like L.S.D.-25 or the 20 mins. like di-metrhyl triptamine or diethjyl triptamine, etc. etc.) but a full 24 hrs. at minimum, and absurdly high with residual hallucinations for a week.
Anyway, I digress.
The hordes of hallucinated (giant) bats following me around were a particularly interesting memory of that week !
NOTE: hallucinogens only produce visual hallucinations in massive doses. They generally generate what is more correctly termed "ILLUSIONS" — which is to say that the "visions" are merely colorful, translucent, and/or not-quite-real. With S.T.P. there are actual concrete hallucinations, completely indistinguishable from reality.