Gattino –
I don’t have any stories to support the idea of alcohol removing inhibitions, but I think it is likely. I also remember reading the same stuff about Serios being an alcoholic.
I suspect that anything which removes or diminishes our attention to consensual reality (AKA “reality”) can have the effect of allowing us to sense (see, hear, feel) things which exist outside of our usual reality.
These disinhibiters (?) can be very young age (un-narrowed filter for experience), conscious awareness factors (drink, drugs, head injury, meditation, prayer, adult survivors of violent physical or emotional abuse), or extreme, focused attention to non-consensual reality (magic).
All these factors may produce imaginary effects which are indistinguishable from an actual non-consensual occurrence. Of course, all these things are exactly what planned scientific experiments try to exclude as a confounding variable. Alas, it may be that someone is delusional and at the same time experiencing an actual non-consensual event.
That’s why experiments like you are conducting, and natural, verified experiences, are so valuable. The thousands of events, including shared dreams, which the SPR collected 140 years ago, are now largely dismissed. Its time to start all over again. Please continue to post! I, for one, am rivited.