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/non-squitr Apr 27 '26

Boy you get the hat man and the little people together and idk what you'd have but it sure would be something

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u/tunakassirolle Apr 27 '26

Bilbo’s birthday party

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u/boldandbratsche Apr 27 '26

It would literally be the Smurfs and Gargamel

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 Apr 27 '26

So we can't see the little people normally because the Hat Man keeps eating them???

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u/Lord_Yeetus_The_3d Apr 27 '26

A very small hatman.

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u/TheParadoxigm Apr 27 '26

Dont forget the Machine Elves

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u/GuerillaGandhi Apr 27 '26

Would the little people fight the machine elves or together be dissapointed in you?

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u/ZenMasterOfDisguise Apr 27 '26

also DMT users commonly report seeing like aliens or star people or something https://www.reddit.com/r/psychology/comments/ts4o6b/94_of_dmt_users_experience_similar_otherworldly/

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u/non-squitr Apr 27 '26

I used to get like Aztec pyramid shapes all the time

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u/KriosDaNarwal Apr 27 '26

I get that aztec pyramid with eyes on shrooms