A reaction to taking a new
drug or medication that is so abrupt and paradigm-breaking that one immediately realizes that life, and one'
s perception of it, has been fundamentally and irreversibly changed. Named so in analogy to a religious
experience, and as a portmanteau of "pharmaceutical" and "Damascene conversion".
Yeah, I was in pretty bad shape when the EMTs pulled me out of the
wreck, but then they put the
morphine in the IV and...
man, I had a pharmascene conversion.