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Anecdotal: I've seen the rat-in-bowl thing. I didn't believe my roommate, and he was freaking the fuck out. "Dude, you must be high." And then I saw it.
Tangenting, we had one of those dangerous halogen floor lamps. Our hovel wasn't sealed well. Large outdoor moths and other insects constantly burst into flames on it. Once a particularly juicy something or other met it's doom on the superheated glass, was smoking noxiously, and he climbed up to blow it out.
Fine and good except he inhaled a bit too much right before attempting to blow it out.
He swears that this insects crematory gases were psychoactive if not outright hallucinogenic. I remember him going all funny, wobbling off the chair he was standing on and shambling over to the couch to sit back down again. "Duuuude. Why the fuck am I so high!? This isn't right!"
I had a co-worker/friend who did the same thing. She ended up tossing the dishes and getting a new dishwasher because roach parts kept showing up.
*barf*