seeing pink elephants

He laughed and added, 'Take more water with it next time.you'll be seeing pink elephants next time.

It is sometimes invoked as a "Seeing pink elephants", possibly in reference to alcohol abuse.

The boy's probably seeing pink elephants, too."

Seeing pink elephants is a euphemism for hallucinations caused by delirium tremens.

Hallucinations is anything from ringing in your ears and prickles on your skin (again, fear symptoms) to seeing pink elephants.

A reference to seeing pink elephants as alcoholic hallucinosis occurs in a Just for Laughs prank.

Maybe coincidentally or perhaps a remnant of the 19th century elephant idiom, the 20th century euphemism "seeing pink elephants" is a term to denote drunk hallucinations.

As seeing pink elephants is the traditional hallucination of the drunkard, neither the captain, the crew nor the passengers will acknowledge seeing Bobo, and thus he has the virtual run of the ship for the entire voyage.

But we have good reason to believe that a musical experience is not a purely private thing, like seeing pink elephants, and that reporting about such an experience need not be subjective in the sense of it being a mere matter of opinion" (Clifton 1983, 8-9).