Hallucinatory messages

In NetHack, you may encounter some unexpected messages while hallucinating. The following is a comprehensive list of all available hallucinatory messages.

All appearances of "<color>" will be replaced with one of the following| ultraviolet, infrared, bluish-orange, reddish-green, dark white, light black, sky blue-pink, salty, sweet, sour, bitter, striped, spiral, swirly, plaid, checkered, argyle, paisley, blotchy, guernsey-spotted, polka-dotted, square, round, triangular, cabernet, sangria, fuchsia, wisteria, lemon-lime, strawberry-banana, peppermint, romantic, or incandescent. The word "poohbah" also replaces every instance of "priest".

Messages

You feel less trippy now.

Your confusion wore off.

You feel less wobbly now.

Your stunning wore off.

Oh, bummer! Everything is dark! Help!

You became blind.

Your vision seems to dim but is happier now.

As above, while wearing the Eyes of the Overworld.

Far out! Everything is all cosmic again!

Your blindness wore off.

Your vision seems to brighten but is sadder now.

As above, while wearing the Eyes of the Overworld.

As you open the bottle, an enormous <monster> emerges!

You quaffed a milky potion and a ghost appeared.

You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes.

You quaffed a potion with no net effect, or whenever you would have a strange feeling.

This tastes like [watered down] dandelion wine!

You quaffed a [diluted] potion of booze.

Yecch! This tastes overripe.

You quaffed a cursed potion of fruit juice or potion of see invisible.

This tastes like 10% real [reconstituted] all-natural beverage.

You quaffed a [diluted] non-cursed potion of fruit juice or potion of see invisible.

You are shocked back to your senses!

You quaffed a potion of sickness to end hallucination.

What a trippy feeling!

You quaffed a potion of confusion.

This tastes tangy.

You quaffed a potion of acid while acid resistant.

You feel a little normal.

You quaffed or were hit by a potion of polymorph.

You sense something nearby.

You quaffed a potion of object detection or cast the spell of detect treasure.

You get the heebie jeebies.

You quaffed a potion of monster detection or cast the spell of detect monsters without any monsters on the level, while not a beginner.

You hear a voice say, "It's dead, Jim."

You applied a stethoscope down at a corpse.

You produce a normal whistling sound.

You applied a non-cursed (or cursed, half of the time) magic whistle.

Yow! The mirror stares back!

You applied a mirror to yourself, while polymorphed into a floating eye.

You look <color>.

You applied a mirror to yourself, while not polymorphed into a floating eye, umber hulk, or any V.

You give the fish a chance to fix their makeup.

You applied a mirror in a direction while underwater.

You suddenly feel trippy.

You became confused via a cursed unicorn horn.

Oh, wow, look at the pretty shards.

You destroyed a gem by rubbing it against a cursed touchstone while not blind.

Oh wow, man: Fractals!

As above, with a non-cursed touchstone.

You give yourself a facial.

You applied a cream pie.

Your body takes on a normal transparency…

You invoked an artifact to become invisible, or ate a ring of invisibility.

A normal force teleports you away…

You were killed by a falling drawbridge, but were lifesaved.

<Monster> drinks the <lava/moat> and disappears.

A monster was forced into the moat/lava by the drawbridge and died.

<Monster> gets into some heavy metal!

A monster was killed by a destroyed drawbridge.

All you see is funky <color> haze.

You applied an uncharged crystal ball while not blind.

Whoa! Psychedelic colors, <dude/babe>!
You grok some groovy globs of incandescent lava.
The crystal pulses with sinister <color> light!
You see goldfish swimming above fluorescent rocks.
Oh wow... like a kaleidoscope!
You see tiny snowflakes spinning around a miniature farmhouse.

You successfully applied a charged crystal ball.

Dude! The living dead!

You dug up a grave, creating a zombie.

I want my mummy!

You dug up a grave, creating a mummy.

There is a <color> flash as <object> hits the altar.

You dropped an object that was either cursed or blessed on an altar.

Whoa! Everything looks different.
You are surrounded by twisty little passages, all alike.
Gee, this looks like uncle Conan's place…

You arrive on a level you forgot due to amnesia.

Whoa! Everything seems different.
Gee, this seems like uncle Conan's place…

As above, while blind.

You feel bummed for a moment.

Your pet starved.

You can't kick something that's in a tizzy!

You attempted to kick something in a pit, spiked pit or web.

You would never recognize it anyway.

You attempted to call a monster something.

My brain hurts!

You put on a dunce cap or helm of opposite alignment.

What a pity - you just ruined a future piece of [fine] art!

You cured yourself of petrification; the message will say "fine art" if your charisma is over 15.

You be chillin'.

You gained fire resistance.

You feel totally together, man.

You gained disintegration resistance.

You feel grounded in reality.

You gained shock resistance.

You feel diffuse.

You gained teleportitis.

You feel centered in your personal space.

You gained teleport control.

You feel in touch with the cosmos.

You gained telepathy.

You tawt you taw a puttie tat!

You lost see invisible.

You can't resist the temptation to mimic an orange.

You ate a mimic corpse.

You suddenly dread being peeled and mimic <race> again.

Your mimicking timeout ended.

You feel rather trippy.

You became confused via eating rotten food.

Oh wow, like, superior, man!

You ate a food ration while hungry or worse.

Tastes great! Less filling!

You ate a tripe ration while an orc.

My, that was a primo <fruit>!

You ate a non-cursed slime mold.

Segmentation fault -- core dumped.
Bus error -- core dumped.
Yo' mama -- core dumped.

You ate an apple or pear.

This <food> is grody!

You ate a food that would have tasted terrible.

This <food> is gnarly!

You ate a food that would have tasted delicious.

Four out of five dentists agree.

You ate a non-cursed trident.

You are getting the munchies.

You became hungry.

You now have a lesser case of the munchies.

You ate and are now only hungry.

The munchies are interfering with your motor capabilities.

You became weak from hunger.

You still have the munchies.

You ate and are now only weak.

From the murky drain, a hand reaches up… --oops--

One effect of quaffing from a sink

You've fallen, and you can't get up.

You are trapped in a (spiked) pit.

You have an out-of-body experience.

A monster cast touch of death on you.

You feel (trippy/trippier)!

You became confused from a monster spell.

Ouch! You've been slimed!

You were hit by an acid attack.

Whoopsie-daisy!

You killed a quest leader or a quest guardian.

You hear the studio audience applaud!

You killed your pet.

As <monster> opens the bottle, an enormous <monster> emerges!

A ghost generated from a monster quaffing a milky potion.

<monster>'s body takes on a normal transparency.

A monster became invisible.

What a pity - <monster> just ruined a future piece of art!

A monster cured its stoning.

(paranoid delusion)

You viewed a monster that you are warned of via far look.

The <monster> inside the box is dead!

You opened a box containing Schroedinger's Cat.

Far out, man! You can see right through yourself.

You became invisible while you had see invisible.

Far out, man! You can't see yourself.

As above, without see invisible.

There's a tiger in your tank.

Through prayer, you regained lost attribute points.

Looks like you are back in Kansas.

Through prayer, you ended hallucination.

You feel that <god> is bummed.

A god smote you.

You feel that <god> is pleased as punch.

You prayed successfully with a devout alignment record.

You feel that <god> is ticklish.

As above, with strident alignment record.

You feel that <god> is full.

As above, with other levels of positive alignment record.

Your sacrifice sprouts wings and a propeller and roars away!
Your sacrifice puffs up, swelling bigger and bigger, and pops!
Your sacrifice collapses into a cloud of dancing particles and fades away!

You sacrificed.

You feel homesick.

You attempted to offer the Amulet of Yendor before reaching the Astral Plane.

You realize you have made a boo-boo.

You attempted to offer an unidentified cheap plastic imitation of the Amulet of Yendor.

<God> seems groovy.

After sacrifice, your god is less angry.

<God> seems cosmic (not a new fact).

After sacrifice, your god is no longer angry.

The gods seem tall.

Your sacrifice did nothing to appease your god's anger.

You realize the gods are not like you and I.

Your sacrifice reduced your prayer timeout, but it is still nonzero.

Overall, there is a smell of fried onions.

Your sacrifice reduced your prayer timeout to zero.

You see crabgrass at your <feet>. A funny thing in a dungeon.

Your sacrifice increased your Luck.

Being so trippy, you screw up…

You read a scroll while confused.

You feel in touch with the Universal Oneness.

You read a scroll of remove curse while not confused.

You feel the power of the Force against you!

As above You read a scroll of remove curse while confused.

Wow! Modern art.

You read a scroll of magic mapping on a non-mappable level.

Your mind releases itself from mundane concerns.

You read a scroll of amnesia.

You hear a soda fountain!

There is a fountain on the level.

You hear dishes being washed!

There is a sink on the level.

You hear Queen Beruthiel's cats!

There is a throne room on the level.

You hear Donald Duck!

There is a swamp on the level.

You hear Ebenezer Scrooge!

There is a vault on the level.

You hear the quarterback calling the play.

As above, if the vault is unlooted.

You hear bees in your [(nonexistent)] bonnet!

There is a beehive on the level; the word "nonexistent" is added if you are not wearing a helm.

The <hair> on your <head> seems to stand up.

There is a graveyard on the level.

You hear General MacArthur!

There is a populated barracks on the level.

You hear Doctor Doolittle!

There is a zoo on the level.

You hear Neiman and Marcus arguing!

There is a shop on the level.

You hear someone say "No more woodchucks!"
You hear a loud ZOT!

You are on the Oracle's level.

Maybe you should find a designated driver.

You attempted to ride a steed.

It felt good to get out of the rain.

You dismounted an unnamed steed.

You are turning into a <monster>.

You were two turns away from becoming a green slime.

You have become a <monster>.

You became a green slime.

You trip over your own elbow.
You slip on a banana peel.

You fumbled.

Egads! They bite your feet!

You fumbled over an item.

Batteries have not been invented yet.

A lit brass lantern in your inventory just flickered.

They shriek!

You saw some candles stop burning.

You notice a crease in the linoleum.

You triggered a squeaky board trap.

You hear someone bowling.

You heard a rolling boulder trap being set off.

You hear the moon howling at you.
You suddenly yearn for Cleveland.
You smell hamburgers.

You stepped on a magic trap. with no effect.

What a groovy feeling!

You triggered a chest trap.

Up, up, and awaaaay! You're walking on air!

You begin levitation.

Bummer! You've hit the ground.

You ceased levitating.

Bummer! You've splashed down.

You ceased levitating over water or lava.

Bummer! You've crashed.

You ceased levitating by falling into a Sokoban trap.

You sink like the Titanic.

You fell into water without being able to swim.

Your keel hits the bottom.

You fell into water while amphibious.

The floor runs like butter!

You cast stone to flesh downward, erasing any stone engravings.

History

In NetHack 3.3.0 and earlier versions, including some variants based on those versions, the following messages were produced for warning:

You mood ring glows <color>.

You are wearing a ring of warning.

Your spider-sense is tingling…

You have intrinsic warning.

Other unused messages

You bump into an invisible tree. Ouch!

You entered a forcefield (deferred feature).

References

This page may need to be updated for the current version of NetHack.

It may contain text specific to NetHack 3.4.3. Information on this page may be out of date.

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