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by tawana mcallister on April 19th, 2005

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Was Lewis Carroll on drugs when he wrote the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

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  • by hijklmno on March 26th, 2007

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    Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) was a mathematician by training and, more significantly, an expert in logic. Only when you're a truly logical person are you able to notice the rules that you can then break. This, I'd say, was the main source of his nonsense.

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  • by Im Alec has abandoned this account on September 26th, 2007

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    Almost certainly not, because the original version of Wonderland was told as a story while rowing a boat on a summer's afternoon. If he had been out of his head, it would have been noticed and commented on. Not to say he never took what we call drugs - as Singwell has said, various forms of opium were in common use at the time - but I strongly doubt that he was significantly under the influence when he invented Alice.

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  • by pumpkinking513 on August 9th, 2007

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    Have you seen this movie?!?! You see alot of crazy shit on acid. thats all i'm saying

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  • by CaRbOnPrOdUcK is Baccuss on January 23rd, 2009

    CaRbOnPrOdUcK is Baccuss

    No. He was "on target" with using Alice in Wonderland as a tool to explain some of the most fasinating concepts of physics there are, in a language everyone could understand, the language of make believe.

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  • by jangobean on March 25th, 2007

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    There is no proof or evidence or even cause to think that Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) took drugs. Alice in Wonderland was originally a nonsense story told to Alice Liddell (a friend's daughter) and her friends whilst on a boat trip. He later wrote the story down and was encouraged to publish it.

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  • by mirror I rorrim on March 3rd, 2010

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    No, he was NOT on drugs. The characters in his story were based on actual people in his life, Alice, for example, was a real person, as well as locations like the "Rabbit Hole", which was supposed describe a stairwell. As most of you have said, he might have been using opium, but opium isnt hallucinogenic. He wasnt on shrooms, he wasnt on LSD, he wasnt on anything.

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  • by mojothesly on January 23rd, 2009

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    The truth is no one knows for sure, it doesn't really matter. Either way he was a brilliant writer.

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  • by mmloupe123 on March 4th, 2008

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    Praise for the person who gave kudos to Mr. Carroll's mathematics and logic. A professor of Abnormal Psychology once gave a lecture during which he expressed his opinion that a person who was considered outside the norm of society could indeed possess a gift that would bless or energize anyone with whom she/he came into contact. My mother prohibited me from watching this movie while I was young(she thought it would influence me to use drugs)--well, it was the first thing I bought when I got my first apartment--that and a real Christmas tree. I cannot count the times this dreamy feature has sung me into a blissful slumber. Thank you, Mr. Carroll.

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  • by Shine_The_Light on March 26th, 2007

    Shine_The_Light

    His sniffing of glue helped him devise the cheshire cat for sure

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  • by Sunshine1 on March 26th, 2007

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    yes. That film is craaazy

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  • by Kevin_E4374 on March 23rd, 2011

    Kevin_E4374

    Not only am I convinced he was on drugs. But I believe he used drugs to seduce children. He shows all the signs of the typical perv next door. People just don't want to believe it.

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  • by the man on November 17th, 2009

    the man

    Yes he was on mad drugs. That guy did LSD every day. That is what the book is, one of his crazy trips.

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  • by jello102509 on October 28th, 2010

    jello102509

    he didnt make the film...hollywood did people.

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  • by bblove on March 21st, 2010

    bblove

    have u evere read 'alice through the looking glass and what alice found there' he used chess moves that if he was on drugs it is impossible to imagine

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  • by bblove on March 21st, 2010

    bblove

    oHHHH!!!about the movie.... tim burton do drugs and drink a lot....

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  • by wewanttruth on June 6th, 2010

    wewanttruth

    Lweis Carroll was not on drugs because this drugs were not invented untill 78 YEARS affter he wrote the book. He might have been on opium for medical beacuse people in those days were stupid and didn't know the consiquences of what theas drugs did. HE WAS NOT A PEDOPHILE HE JUST LIKED CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIKE THE REST OF THE HUMAN RACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • by Zellie on October 19th, 2009

    Zellie

    Well, I think that no one can actually be able to truelly answer this... I doubt he'd have documented that he was using opium (probably coz they didn't consider it strange as lots of people where doing it, and they probably didn't know - like sigarettes when they first came out - that it was bad for you). BUT it certainly does seem drug inspired, maybe he wasn't on drugs when he told the story, but he might have been when he first came up with it..

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  • by TheAardvark on May 30th, 2009

    TheAardvark

    I think of all the people I have known who were into drugs, and I look at all of their accomplishments, and I have to conclude that Carroll was using native imagination alone in the "Alice" stories.

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  • by suzycue on September 26th, 2007

    suzycue

    Possibly....in those days laudanum and or opium were common remedies for what ails you.
    Or...perhaps he just was blessed with the most marvellous imigination!

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  • by singwell-is off researching a lot on March 26th, 2007

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    Carroll was on medication for severe pain. In those days, not knowing the consequences, people took raw opium for pain. This, coupled with a vivid imagination and a fantastic mathematical brain, probably produced the imagery in Alice. Look aslo at the near contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge, another opium chewer, who produced Xanadu after dreaming it...

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  • by Armybrat0710 on March 25th, 2007

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    I think that actively being on drugs would have hindered the writing process, if not just for the actual physical act. I think that maybe they could be memories...but not active hallucinations.

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  • by sarahsue on March 4th, 2008

    sarahsue

    Yes!!! An the mad hatter in the movie is so crazy because back in those days hat makers used murcery in the firming of hats which makes them go all crazy with murcery poinsioning.. i always thought that was interesting!

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  • by Jaykin on December 3rd, 2008

    Jaykin

    Lewis Carroll, or Charles Dodgson, outlined the story of what we know as Alice in Wonderland, on a rowing trip with the Dean of his college's three female children, Alice, Lorina, and Edith Liddell. He was in training to become an Anglican Priest and it seems very unlikely he would have used opium, which was very popular at the time, every 4 out of 5 households used opium. He loved children and the story he told was nonsensical, perhaps an attempt to escape the Victorian era of children's stories with morals. Dodgson suffered from migraines and possible epileptic episodes in 1880 and thereafter, but that was long after the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I think there is no possible way he was on opium. The rumors that Dodgson was on acid are absolutely ridiculous. LSD or "Acid" wasn't even invented until 1938, and Dodgson died in 1898.

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  • by Anonymous on February 6th, 2009

    Anonymous

    My son thinks so but I agree with mojothesly.

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  • by what on January 24th, 2009

    what

    I read he was into morphine.

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  • by voiceoflogic on February 25th, 2010

    voiceoflogic

    Lewis Carroll did not trip on acid. Alice was written in 1865 and acid wasn't first synthesized until 1938 by a Swiss chemist. Shrooms maybe...

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  • by Mr n Mrs M... on September 26th, 2007

    Mr n Mrs M...

    Absolutely buzzing her tits off...

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