having a fever is a strange experience. your mind is lucid; you walk around with a barely perceptible sense of who you are and what you want to do. you just want to drop dead for a moment and wake up somewhere else. you are haunted by nightmares you thought you already expelled from the innermost realms of your mind. you think of the strangest things; everything around you is warped, spinning, ebbing, flowing. you dream of the strangest things.
maybe a fever fuses the control switch in our brain and unleashes a torrential flood of weird imaginations.