Carbidopa/levodopa: take too little and hurt like hell;
take too much and end up wandering in Wonderland,
the land where weird and wondrous things appear,
like the lady in my painting who emerges from the frame;
or the billboard which appears inside my bedroom
arising from nowhere now here to welcome me
into tunnels of bright light; or illuminated bugs which
appear and disappear on the walls inside my windows.
Are these near-death apparitions? I suspect.
No, my brain responds “They are errors of perception,
a part of Parkinson's, where illusions and delusions,
become landmines in the fields.”
“An extra dose of dopa is all it takes,
to fall into a rabbit hole, descend into the ground,
and meet with shadows, angels, spirits,
ghosts and ghouls alike, all misperceptions of the mind.”
I never thought I'd see such oddities appear
which would haunt my world, now filled with
misperceptions of my mind,
in a land of make-believe.
You painted quite a vivid picture with your words, well done. ,
A vivid description of hallucinations. Is the trigger for hallucinations the same force that sparks poetic creativity?