Was Lewis carrol on opium

Answer 1

He probably did come in contact with opiates, they were used as headache medicine in the Victorian era. But more than likely the few drug references throughout stories like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland were actually making fun of the drugs that were socially acceptable to use in that time. He wrote most of Alice on a boat with the Liddell children so he definitely wasnt on drugs when he wrote it though.Im not sure of my sources but supposedly he hated tobacco, but used belladonna among other herbs for his home remedies for some ailments he suffered from, such as hearing loss.Though, he was diagnosed with epilepsy well after Alice had been published there are about 10 years missing from his journals before it was published that leave us open to the posibility he couldve been epileptic before hand. Supposedly stuttering and hearing loss are some symptoms of it. If he wasnt inspired from his own epilepsy, he might have been from watching a young man he went to school with have a seizure. Supposedly not only did he witness it, but also went to the hospital to talk to him afterwards. But Id check his journals to be sure.

If you go through all the stages of a temporal lobe seizure you can almost turn to the next chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and they match up. Like the first thing you experience are Aura's or simple partial seizures, and it often feels like your stomach is rising, like you do when you fall. Kind of like Alice down the rabbit hole, and so on and so forth.

I guess it all depends on what you mean by "take". He definitely took medication, but everyone does. However, please don't be one of those people that are sure he was on drugs and that's how he came up with Alice's stories. It was a mix of his handicaps (his stuttering his name inspired the Dodo bird's character), his friendships (he incorporated the Liddell girls a lot throughout the story, from Alice's birthday to their nicknames), his takes on the world (like how he felt about politics, and children's literature) that he might not have been able to express what with his overbearing father (who was a reverend and I feel made him join the priesthood) and POSSIBLY medications he might have taken.

Its a wonderful story to want to delve into, but don't be biased and stay open to interpretation, its what makes his writing so fascinating because of how faceted it is. Everyone can take something different from it.

- Alicia

Well with the mentioning of him using belladonna, he could have gotten some inspiration from that because they say a person who takes belladonna becomes mad as a hatter.... But then again it could be just a coicidence.. There are also drug references/drug state of minds being referenced in the movie like when Alice is talking to the flowers there are morning glories (LSA) a psychadelic and there are poppy plants in there too... The fact that she is talking to the flowers is like a drug induced state (people conversate with flowers when you are tripping hard). She also eats mushrooms and drinks many body/mind altering substances throughout the movie. She drink bottles of unlabled liquid that make her shrink and these cookie things that make her bigger. It all could be relative to taking drugs but it also could just be random coincidences too bad he's not around today to ask him.....

Answer 2

There is speculation that Lewis Carroll may have used opium, based on some of his writings and behavior, but there is no definitive proof. Carroll did suffer from various health issues, including migraines, which may have led him to use substances like opium for pain relief.

Answer 3

yes he was. AND Georgia has a higher intelligance level than noah