"Dreaming Man" Analysis
Chemical analysis of the "Dreaming Man" drug has been conducted by chemists with Delta Green clearance within the past three months. They concluded that the drug is synthetic, combining laboratory-mixed stimulants with an unknown organic compound which could not be positively identified as either animal or vegetable in nature. Studies of the organic element's properties have been inconclusive. It is not carbon-based; nor is it based on any identified element.
The effect of ingestion is most acute when the bluish-black flakes are burned and the fumes inhaled, but longer-lasting effects can be achieved with oral and especially with intravenous ingestion, typically by mixing the flakes with water for an appropriate medium. Users under the influence of the drug report a sense of dissociation from reality, vertigo, ennui, hunger, and unnatural perceptions of distance and time. More unusual, however, is the fact these effects are sometimes experienced by individuals near a user who have not taken the drug themselves. Such transference of effect has been observed after presence for five minutes at a of proximity of about six feet. The cause of this effect is unknown.
The drug is physically addictive. The addictive component seems to be the unknown organic element, since the stimulants used are not known to produce such severe dependency. Withdrawal usually occurs after six or seven ingestions of the drug over a period of ten to twenty days. Withdrawal is more pronounced for heavier users. It typically sets in after twenty-four hours, and is marked by muscle cramps and spasms, cyanosis, nausea, vertigo, fever, and violent but vague hallucinations.
When cultured, the inert organic element of the drug undergoes startling revitalization, becoming a living organism within the host system. Additonal samples of the inert organic element perform in the same manner, but they also combine with the animate element within the host system to form a single living organic mass in symbiosis with the host cells. Removed from the host system, the organic element returns to its inert state.
These effects were the same regardless of the physical state of the drug from which the sample came. An organic element rendered gaseous resolidified and became animate when introduced to a host organism, and then combined with a prior animate sample.