It's Elves all the way down.
Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
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#32It 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.
I imagine it is something similar to pareidolia.
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#33I wish it were another dimension, or breaking through the Matrix. I never had the chance to experience such items but look forward to doing so.
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#34It 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…
These mushrooms are small, these elves are far away.
You will get a kick out of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVUuoXAkuUg a Corridor Crew video on in-camera forced perspective effects.
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#35I was disappointed that the article doesn't contain pictures of these little people.
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#36SWIM would like to know how to get paid as (instead of paying to be) "an expert who explores new mushrooms".
Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
#37Aparently 见手青 is mildly toxic yet commonly consumed in Yunan.
Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
#38It 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…
reminds me of trip reports from people trying Salvia Divinorum - there's even a name for these tiny people, 'Smelves'
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#39Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
#40Incredible! 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…
These mushrooms have been eaten for thousands of years. Does it really count as a new discovery? Maybe isolating the specific compound does.