alice in wonderland?

Question

was the guy who wrote the disney alice in wonderland, on lsd or something?

Answer 1

Probably, cuz that catipillar was definitely getting high. And only someone on drugs could come up with that disappearing cat.

Answer 2

He was on something even wilder than drugs - his imagination:

"Let me be perfectly clear here, there is no proof (in his letters or his diaries) that Lewis Carroll did recreational drugs. Certainly there were drug references in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and these were picked up on by people with interests in that area, particularly in the late sixties. You might ask yourself why students insist that he did and why some teachers teach that he did. That is not to say that Carroll never took Laudunum for a medical problem on the advice of a doctor, but if he felt that these opened his mind or increased his awareness, why did he never mention it?
Alice gets linked to the drug culture. No, Lewis Carroll did not use mind altering drugs to increase his creativity. He used his imagination. If you have one, it's better than drugs. If you don't, the drugs won't help you. With apologies to the late Timothy Leary."

"The possibility of drug use

There has been much speculation that Dodgson used psychoactive drugs, however there is no direct evidence that he ever did. It is true that the most common painkiller of the time—laudanum—was in fact a tincture of opium and could produce a 'high' if used in a large enough dose. Most historians can infer Dodgson probably used it from time to time to ease the pain of his arthritis, since it was the standard domestic painkiller of its day and was to be found in numerous patent medicines of the time, but there is no evidence he ever abused it or that its effects had any impact on his work. There is no factual evidence to support a suggestion that he smoked cannabis. However, many people regard Alice's hallucinations in the Wonderland, when surrounded by teas, mushrooms and smoking insects, as references to psychedelic substances."

Answer 3

They really toned down the trippy feeling for the Disney version. Lewis Carroll was probably really on some sort of horrible drug/s. Opiates are fun for writers, apparently.

Answer 4

If you think the Disney version was trippy, read the original by Lewis Carroll. Many people believe he was on psychoactive drugs, or at least referring to them in his works.