Pink elephants

Pink elephants, “hallucinations arising especially from heavy drinking or use of narcotics,” have been a fixture in pop culture for more than a century. The high-water mark of pink-elephants in pop-culture may have been Dumbo’s champagne-fueled, psychedelic hallucination of Pink Elephants on Parade in Walt Disney’s 1941 classic animated film, Dumbo. When Dumbo saw pink elephants in 1941, people had been seeing “pink elephants” for nearly forty years. But it had not always been that way… read more >