Hey buddy, you wanna get higher than you’ve ever been in your life?

Well, do I have the fish for you! Sarpa salpa, aka the dreamfish, aka cow bream, aka goldline, is a harmless looking sea bream which, it’s claimed, was used as a recreational drug in Roman times because of it’s hallucinogenic properties. In Arabic it is literally known as “the fish that makes dreams”.

She’s coming up, so we’d better get this party started

The organic compound indole accumulates inside the fishes’ brain through it’s ingestion of plankton. Indole provides the building blocks of substances such as strychnine and LSD. Ichthyoallyeinotoxism can result from eating the dreamfish, which, with its 36-hour trips filled with screaming fish, sounds like something from Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (and sounds pretty unlikely to me).

Take care of yourselves everyone, take only what you can handle, and try to ignore those screaming fish in the corner.