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[–] 24 points 4 months ago (9 children)

A common hallucination that people see when they OD on Benedryl: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-hatman

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    not just bendaryl or dxm or whatever else, people get out of their trip what have put in their heads beforehand. if you read about hat man a lot you will see hat man

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Not just trips, and not just if you've heard of him. I saw the hat man a lot during a 2 week psychotic episode as a teenager, and didn't learn he had a name and countless artist renderings until several years later. He's seen across cultures and times.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    He's seen in many other situations too. Benadryl is just super commonly known.

    Someone I talked to online said they saw him multiple times in their life sober, and every time there'd be a death in the family or really bad thing would happen. They didn't see him as evil, just as an omen/warning.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I haven't seen a hat man, but I get migraine with aura and sometimes "see" a moving shadow sort of shaped like a person out of the corner of my eye. Of course, if I try to look directly, there's nothing there.

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