That is one of those "most villified drugs" from drug education in the mid-80's through the early 90's. Now, I haven't met very many people that have done PCP (as opposed to things like LSD, MDMA, and cocaine, for example)... but they've never described it like you do. It isn't hard to imagine that since the drug education deceptively describes LSD, MDMA, and cocaine, that they'd be deceptive on this one. I've always guessed these sorts of stories were outliers: They might have happened once, and it is good to know there is some slim chance of weird reactions, but definitely wouldn't be a common thing.