I was tripping in Cape Town, South Africa after taking  a load of seeds, locally known as Malpeta (Devils Thorn) on New Year’s Eve 2001. 

They were a powerful hallucinogenic that shamen and witch doctors would take one or two of to slip into a catatonic trance like state. I took about one hundred. I was on a “Death Wish” at the time after breaking up with my Girlfriend in London. 

The tripping lasted for about 3 weeks but before it was over, I was sectioned for my own good. Before getting hospitalised I had Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, with me in my CD collection, strewn across the Bungalow I was renting. Both discs were on a work surface in the kitchen. 

I started to stare at both of the discs and the images became animated, as though alive, they frowned at me, smiled at me and made other facial expressions. I had never experienced it with any CD artwork, before or since. 

I would be interested to find out if anyone else had such a moment with the Album Art Work.