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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
Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
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Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
#52SWIM would like to know how to get paid as (instead of paying to be) "an expert who explores new mushrooms".
Someone Who Isn't Me?
It always reminded me of those FTP servers in the early days of the internet that had big warning banners declaring the law enforcement was not allowed to connect.
Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
#53Incredible! 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…
> mushroom sized > blue when bruised > make see small fairy people did they found the schtroumpf village ?
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#54Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
#55Doesn't say how, for some reason. I presume they are shocked to see tiny mice, but I would like to know what behaviors they exhibited.
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#56So perhaps not very recreational as might be assumed given the topic.
Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
#57Incredible! 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…
> mushroom sized > blue when bruised > make see small fairy people did they found the schtroumpf village ?
Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
#58The Wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogenic_bolete_mushroom ) talks about effects lasting for days, even in animal studies. Some of the historical records claimed effects lasting even longer, from months to years, though this sounds like triggered psychosis. So perhaps not very recreational as might be assumed given the topic.
Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
#59For example, members of a famous forum recently found, analyzed for alkaloid content, and re-cultivated a strain of Phalaris Aquatica because of its notable alkaloid content. Some other mushrooms became popular this way as well — for example, Psilocybe Natalensis, first found in Natal, Africa. Or the now famous Tamarind Tree British Virgin Islands (TTBVI) Panaeolus Cyanescens that’s widely cultivated at home.
So IMO it's not only scientists, but often enthusiasts who end up gifting these discoveries to everyone else!
Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could be that the mushroom just temporarily interferes with the substances the elves put in our water supply to keep us in the dark?
exactly, the real question is what the elves are doing while they’re unseen.
It could be a subspecies of the "machine elves"...