8 Eerily Accurate Predictions That Came True

5. Aldous Huxley: Antidepressants, 1932

Amongst many other prophecies, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World predicts the use of mood-altering medicine to keep the people of 2540 London happy.

The antidepressants, known as Soma, are taken by citizens as a form of "holiday" from their terrible existence in the classic sci-fi dystopia. The effects are described thusly:

...the warm, the richly coloured, the infinitely friendly world of soma-holiday. How kind, how good-looking, how delightfully amusing every one was!

The population escape their grim reality by popping a pill that makes them feel amazing, and yet, this was already shot through with the paranoia that antidepressants will "zombify" and even enslave those who take them:

Swallowing half an hour before closing time, that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds.