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Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified

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Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified

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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 2 days ago
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People in communities thousands of miles apart have described the same strange experience after eating a mysterious mushroom: vivid visions of tiny humans moving through and interacting with the physical world around them. Known as Lilliputian hallucinations—a reference to the 6-inch-tall inhabitants of "Gulliver's Travels"—the phenomenon has long been thought to stem from cultural influences rather than biology.

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  • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.ca
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    It’s just so bizarre that a psychoactive could make different people have the same sort of hallucination.

    • big_ZimDa_Him@lemmy.zip
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      Have you heard of machine elves?

      • terranoid@lemmy.cafe
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        …and so many beings that tell people “what, you’re not supposed to be here yet”

        I also found out recently that the thing people say about dmt flooding your brain at death and being responsible for hallucinations has like zero scientific evidence… It’s just a chemical that all life usually has in it, and they assume it could happen at death. But they’ve measured the blood of mice while dying and saw no evidence of it. It’s just assumed “they see weird shit so they must be on drugs”, completely unproved hypothesis that’s thrown around like fact.

      • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
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        These guys?

      • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.ca
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        I have not

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      Your experiences are just chemical sensory inputs, so increase the chemical for tiny elves and voila.

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    Sounds like Common Side Effects made real…

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    Why do people always post comment links to ycombinator? Isn’t that a fascist tech startup incubator? All the Theil, Yarvin, and Alex Karp types?

    • greygore@lemmy.world
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      This community is literally just an RSS feed of Hacker News?

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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    Ah classic fungus activities.

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