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Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations

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Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations

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Incredible! A mushroom that bruises blue, but the visions are seemingly unlike traditional tryptamines, and there's no psilocybin found in the mushroom. Also no muscimol present (the thing in Fly Agaric, the 'other' type of hallucinogenic mushroom compound) yet there's definitely a consistent syndrome of hallucinations if you eat it undercooked. Could this mean we're on the brink of discovering an entirely new class…

Or a new reality…

Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations

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SWIM would like to know how to get paid as (instead of paying to be) "an expert who explores new mushrooms".

Exploring new mushrooms is more likely to end in agonizing death than piercing the veil of reality.

Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations

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It is interesting how the hallucinations consistently represent tiny people/elves to the mushroom consumer, even across geography/culture. I wonder what the brain is doing…

Lilliputian hallucinations are also common in mental illnesses with hallucinations. Definitely some kind of physical foundation for it in the human brain.

Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations

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SWIM would like to know how to get paid as (instead of paying to be) "an expert who explores new mushrooms".

Major in biology, do a grad program in medicinal chemistry, join a lab that already studies this.

(I know folks who read PiHKAL and thought "Hmm, this would be a nice ML training/prediction exercise")

Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations

#29

I was disappointed that the article doesn't contain pictures of these little people.

It does but the liliputians are invisible on photographs unless you’ve eaten the undercooked mushroom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cottingley_Fairies_1.jpg
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