Philip K Dick

Sooo... I checked his wiki and apparently he had a really tough life cause he went crazy

Here's the article:

On February 20, 1974, while recovering from the effects of sodium pentothal administered for the extraction of an impacted wisdom tooth, Dick received a home delivery of Darvon from a young woman. When he opened the door, he was struck by the dark-haired girl's beauty, and was especially drawn to her golden necklace. He asked her about its curious fish-shaped design. As she was leaving, she replied: "This is a sign used by the early Christians." Dick called the symbol the "vesicle pisces". This name seems to have been based on his conflation of two related symbols, the Christian ichthys symbol (two intersecting arcs delineating a fish in profile), which the woman was wearing, and the vesica piscis.

Dick recounted that as the sun glinted off the gold pendant, the reflection caused the generation of a "pink beam" of light that mesmerized him. He came to believe the beam imparted wisdom and clairvoyance, and also believed it to be intelligent. On one occasion, he was startled by a separate recurrence of the pink beam, which imparted the information that his infant son was ill. The Dicks rushed the child to the hospital, where the illness was confirmed by professional diagnosis.[verification needed]

After the woman's departure, Dick began experiencing strange hallucinations. Although initially attributing them to side effects from medication, he considered this explanation implausible after weeks of continued hallucination.

This might actually be him ascending or something similar. He also made a trilogy based on his experience called the Valis trilogy. The books are Valis, The Divine Invasion, and an unfinished novel because he died The Owl in Daylight. His last novel The Transmigration of Timothy Archer has a similar concept.

Some random facts are:

1. Peter Tieryas's trilogy of books are inspired by Philip's book called The Man in the High Castle.

2. Blade Runner is based on Philip's book called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Which is a weird name to call something but he did it so roll with it. I have practically no idea what this is about because I have not read the book or watched the movie.

3. He wrote 44 novels and 121 short stories, 11 movies were made based on his work. There were 3 television series about his stories too. There were also 1 opera 4 plays 2 broadcasts. 3 companies made comics of his works too.

4. The National Library for the Blind asked to adapt The Man in the High Castle into Braille and he said they may do it for any of his books.

5. Fredric Jameson says Philip is the Shakespeare of Science Fiction, and filmmakers are comparing the works of Philip with many many films.

6. He owns a company called Electric Shepherd Productions which has made 1 film 1 TV series and 1 marvel comic.

7. Philip is bad at naming so professional people that adapt his work most often change the name. This explains the weird names.

That's all the facts imma write down, the numbers are only what I see in the wiki. If you want the link to the wiki then here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick