Let us start with the expression, “Seeing pink elephants”. This expression refers to the drunken hallucinations of an alcoholic. My mate Wikipedia gleefully informs us, “For many decades before ‘pink elephant’ became the standard drunken hallucination, people were known to ‘see snakes’ or ‘see snakes in their boots.’ Beginning in about 1889, and throughout the 1890s, writers made increasingly elaborate modifications to the standard ‘snakes’ idiom. They changed the animal to rats, monkeys, giraffes, hippopotamuses or elephants — or combinations thereof; and added color — blue, red, green, pink — and many combinations thereof.”

Let us start with the expression, “Seeing pink elephants”. This expression refers to the drunken hallucinations of an alcoholic. My mate Wikipedia gleefully informs us, “For many decades before ‘pink elephant’ became the standard drunken hallucination, people were known to ‘see snakes’ or ‘see snakes in their boots.’ Beginning in about 1889, and throughout the 1890s, writers made increasingly elaborate modifications to the standard ‘snakes’ idiom. They changed the animal to rats, monkeys, giraffes, hippopotamuses or elephants — or combinations thereof; and added color — blue, red, green, pink — and many combinations thereof.”