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Kevin, this is interesting to me, your experience with the morphine.

I had been in hospital after an operation for gall bladder removal. I had experienced much pain because of the amount of gall stones that had been stuck in my bile duct and after the op was put on a self medicating machine that you press when the pain gets worse and it gives you a measured dose of morphine. After a few hours I became more comfortable and very 'out of it'. That night I awoke to a feeling of someone on my chest and I saw what can only be described as a devilish spiky looking creature with a jagged looking knife or short sword in his hand. He proceeded to shove this down my throat and I had to summon all my strength to throw him off me. I was terrified! I lay back exhausted and looked at the ceiling and I could see it moving and strange shapes, small shapes, appearing there. I have no idea what they were but I thought they were insects of some kind...I sat up in bed and the night nurse came into the ward on her rounds. She asked me if I was okay and I said no and told her what I had experienced, she got me a cup of tea and I said i wanted to see someone about the effects of the medication. The next day the pharmacist came and I told her about my experience but she said that the doses I had been on were not enough to give me any such hallucinatory effect and said I just must have had a bad dream!

The experience was so real that it sends shivers down my spine while typing this!

Perhaps it was just a bad dream, but your experiences with the morphine have made me wonder if there was some other explanation for it!!

Cass