What do pink elephants have to do with alcohol, where did this originate?

I've never been drunk before, but obviously alcohol isn't a hallucinogenic, since Absinthe (supposedly) is and people make a big deal about that.





So if alcohol isn't hallucinogenic, whats the deal with pink elephants? How did that cliche get started? What are they symbolic of?

What do pink elephants have to do with alcohol, where did this originate?
Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse get drunk off Champagne, Dumbo dreams about pink elephants and wakes up in a tree with some stero-typed crows in Walt Disney's "DUMBO". This movie was made in 1941, so maybe ?
Reply:thy indeed as princes lea said caused by delirium when you are an alcoholic you can see all kinds or hear all kinds of things that are not there mostley when you are sobering up
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia search


Pink elephant may refer to:


"Seeing pink elephants", a euphemism for drunken hallucination caused by delirium tremens


"Pink Elephant", a song by Cherry Poppin' Daddies from the album Rapid City Muscle Car


The Pink Elephants on Parade segment from the animated film Dumbo


Pink Elephant (club), a nightclub in Chelsea, Manhattan


Pink Elephants, a 1997 rock album by Mick Harvey


Pink elephant may also be:





A version of the English idiom "elephant in the room"


Belle Grove Plantation, a mansion in Louisiana referred to as a "pink elephant"


A Dutch record label of which Shocking Blue was a recording artist


A musical group that appears on the mix CD In Search of Sunrise 5: Los Angeles