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Getting your character high is just a narrative vehicle to some tropey destination[1]. It is sometimes done in a deliberately exaggerated tongue-in-cheek manner ("This is how squares must think drugs are always like!") by the ones that know better, but oftentimes it must be just plain unawareness and/or disregard for realism.

The article deals with one of the specific kind of drugs[2] that "kind of" work that way.

To be fair, interacting with real people who are high while one is sober can get boring pretty fast. Maybe that makes accurate portrayal in fiction not worth it.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIsYourIndexO...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliriant

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Oops. I botched that first link:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIsYourIndexO...