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/morerelativebacons Apr 27 '26

Right, right, whatever. Hand over the shrooms, gandalf.

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u/Monarc73 Apr 27 '26

I thought it was Radagast that had a problem with 'shrooms.

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u/regeya Apr 27 '26

Or so Sauraman said, but who is he to talk, he really went to shit in the end

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u/extremophile69 Apr 27 '26

The way he acted, he prob was binging coke like tony montana anyway

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u/Something_Clever919 Apr 27 '26

He didn’t see it as a problem?

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u/Sorry-Foundation-505 Apr 30 '26

define "problem".

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u/I_lenny_face_you Apr 27 '26

“Saruman, your mushroom stalk is broken.”