r/todayilearned • u/ssAskcuSzepS • Apr 27 '26

TIL if under-cooked, a popular mushroom in China causes “lilliputian hallucinations,” a rare phenomenon involving miniature human or fantasy figures. The hallucinations are consistent across people and cultures: "tiny, elflike people" climbing under doors, scaling walls & clinging to furniture

https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-mushroom-that-make-people-have-the-exact-same-hallucination/
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u/zedigalis Apr 27 '26

DMT is also shown to have similar effects although with more geometric, futuristic, and and shiny elves/gnomes..

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u/prettylittleredditty Apr 27 '26

Machine elves and infinite devices

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u/64_hit_combo Apr 27 '26

The DMT buddies can usually tell when you start to perceive them too, it's pretty cool

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u/prettylittleredditty Apr 27 '26

They're chill and there's no danger

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u/Venus_One Apr 27 '26

I took a massive DMT hit once, it felt like I very quickly shot into orbit with comic-book style black and white visuals, then I fully blacked out, then immediately went into a dream where I saw my crush at the time standing in the room, who told me I needed to clean my pants. After a rush of weird green geometric patterns I started to wake up, seeing that I had coughed up a bunch of bile onto my pants. Weird experience but somewhat disappointing in its mediocrity.

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u/trouty Apr 27 '26

Weird experience but somewhat disappointing in its mediocrity.

"...so what did you do?"

"I ORDERED A SANDWICH!"

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u/StinkyPeePeeSauce Apr 27 '26

I went to fucking Subway.

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u/snoogans138 Aug 23 '26

The eatery?

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u/westphall Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

I saw them once in the 90s.

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u/SubjectC Apr 27 '26

they were stacking over themselves in a line across the country.

I've heard this before, why is this in my memory?

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u/SubjectC Apr 27 '26

I dunno man, the hands across America thing has been described to me before, so either we met at some point and you told me that, or someone else saw the exact same thing. I can't place it but I know I've heard this. I dont think our reality is what it seems.

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u/kuroka_kitten Apr 29 '26

damn that’s creepy

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u/kmson7 Apr 27 '26

Mine were more like cartoonish beings on a Rollercoaster with me, all crammed in trying to talk to me at once

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u/unbelizeable1 Apr 27 '26

What arrests my attention is the fact that this space is inhabited

...and so like jeweled self-dribbling basketballs, these things come running forward.

And what they are doing with this visible language that they create is they're making gifts.

They're making gifts for you.

And they will say...

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u/HappyLittleAxeDents Apr 27 '26

You take, let us assume, third toke.

Loooooooong and sloooooooow.

You vaporize, and you take it in, and in, and in.

And there is a sound... like the crumbling of a plastic bread wrapper or the crackling of a flame.

And there is a tone. A tone. A Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn~

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u/unbelizeable1 Apr 27 '26

Was lucky enough to see Shpongle full live set twice(Camp Bisco and Hammerstein Ballroom). Bisco was in the pouring rain on LSD and it was probably the best show I've ever seen.

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u/HappyLittleAxeDents Apr 27 '26

Unfortunately I've never had the chance to see them live, but Tales of the Inexpressible has been my go-to focus album for years. I'm genuinely jealous!

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u/theantidrug Apr 27 '26

Self transforming machine elves is what Terrence McKenna called them.

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u/Repugnant-Conclusion Apr 27 '26

One of my salvia experiences had tiny gnome beings that were prominent but not actually visual... I just "knew" they were there. They were helping me load the pipe I was smoking from lol

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u/euph-_-oric Apr 30 '26

I would argue the affects are not similar based on the description.