Was Lewis Carroll on drugs when he wrote Alice in Wonderland?

In the 1960s rumors began to surface that author Lewis Carroll was under the influence of drugs when he wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The rumors came about because of the strange and confusing imagery that appears in the book. Songs like Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit added fuel to the fire, with lyrics like ’you’ve just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low’. But is there any truth to the rumors? Well, let’s find Carroll, real name Charles Dodgson, was an author and mathematics tutor at Oxford Summer afternoon in 1862, Carroll took a leisurely boat trip with 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters. To pass the time on the trip, Carroll made up the story of a plucky young girl named Alice who finds herself caught up in the topsy-turvy world of Wonderland. Several times in the story Alice drinks a potion or eats something which changes her size. This a recurring theme throughout the is nothin
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