Lewis Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
and
Through the Looking-Glass
have continuously had a large cultural influence
since they were published.

Even today,
Alice and the rest of Wonderland
continue to inspire or influence many other works of art
to this day—sometimes indirectly;
via the Disney movie, for example.
The character of the plucky yet proper Alice
has proven immensely popular
and inspired similar heroines in literature and pop culture,
many also named Alice in homage.

Numerous works have borrowed the characters and incidents
of the Alice books to illustrate
"altered state" experiences
brought about by psychedelic drugs.

It would seem unlikely that Carroll,
that straitlaced Victorian clergyman,
could have approved.

The name of the neurological condition
Alice in Wonderland syndrome,
in which objects are perceived
to be substantially larger or smaller
than in actuality,
is derived from passages in the book.



Symptoms...