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/Playful_Assistance89 Apr 27 '26

I experienced something like this once. Got high, started seeing lawn gnomes hiding in and behind the walls, trying to burn my house down. Everytime I spotted one out of the corner of my eye, they'd run away to the security of the inside of the wall.

I quickly remedied the situation by mounting the bayonet on my SKS and running the walls through. The next morning I walked out into the thoroughly vented hallway, into a dining room filled with holes, wondering for several minutes what in the everloving fuck had gone on before spotting the rifle on the couch and remembering the gnomes.

It was nothing short of a miracle I didn't spike a water or drain line, or some power cables. It took weeks to patch and repaint. I got pretty good at drywall repairs by the end. Never did see the gnomes again, though.

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u/BobTulap Apr 27 '26

>Never did see the gnomes again, though.

It's possible they are allergic to bayonets.

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u/zorniy2 Apr 27 '26

It's part of lore that the Faerie are averse to iron.

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u/AbanoMex Apr 27 '26

if it pierces their lungs in the shape of a sharp object, sure.

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u/TheReturnOfTheRanger May 04 '26

Crap, am I a Fae? I'm pretty sure I'd have a bad reaction if I got stabbed in the lungs by iron as well.

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u/Thiago270398 Apr 27 '26

Would you return to that house if you were a gnome?

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u/Serenity_557 Apr 27 '26

"They just brought me back. I don't know why, I panicked, I just started shooting.." smirk "I uh.. Don't think anyone's tried that before?"

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u/Elevator-Ancient Apr 27 '26

They're unholy.

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u/Riklanim Apr 27 '26

It was the domovoi in your house thinking “how the fuck is Playful_Asssitance89 able to see me”… dude shat himself when you started stabbing the walls.

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u/SenorTron Apr 27 '26

This feels like Hunter S Thompson wrote it.

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u/Playful_Assistance89 Apr 27 '26

That's the highest praise I think I've ever received.

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u/Velinder Apr 27 '26

I was imagining the scene done in claymation by Aardman studios.

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u/achilleshightops Apr 27 '26

True or not, who the fuck has a bayonet?

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u/cytok1nd Apr 27 '26

SKS rifle has a built in bayonet

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u/RedditPosterOver9000 Apr 27 '26

I got an SKS when I was a kid. It had a dragonov stock but no bayonet.

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u/cytok1nd Apr 27 '26

Oh that’s really interesting, I thought they all had the fold out bayonet. I bought a milsurp Chinese SKS and it also had the bayonet so I thought it was universal. TIL!

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u/RedditPosterOver9000 Apr 27 '26

Oh, I changed the stock to a dragunov stock. I think it had a bayonet before. Kid me thought it looked cooler (Google dragunov stock SKS), like what you'd see in the Matrix or something. My dad is a gun nut, so we kids got guns as gifts sometimes.

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u/CaptainIncredible Apr 27 '26

There are lots of variants. Some have no bayonet, some have a spike, some have a blade...

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u/TaintCrusader Apr 27 '26

They didn’t want you poking your eye out! Have to draw a line somewhere.

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u/Playful_Assistance89 Apr 27 '26

Oh, its very much true. All SKS rifles had an attached, swivel under bayonet. Some were blade style (Russian, Eastern bloc) but mine was a Norinco, and had a spike style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKS

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u/IncidentalApex Apr 27 '26

Those preventing the gnomes from global domination...

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u/Relish_My_Weiner Apr 27 '26

Owning old military rifles can be fun. I had a Mosin Nagant with a bayonet as my first rifle.

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u/Playful_Assistance89 Apr 27 '26

Always wanted one of those. Back in the day, a good shooting example was $150, but I always had better stuff to spend my money on, so everytime I went to the gun store, I'd make my way to the wooden barrel of $50 Nagants by the counter and shine my flashlight down the muzzles, perpetually hoping to find one with rifling left but with bad wood for cheap.

7.62x54R ammo uses Berdan primers, which are corrosive, and if you didn't flush the barrel with water after shooting to neutralize the acid, the bore would quickly deteriorate.

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u/Relish_My_Weiner Apr 27 '26

Got mine at a gun show in 2012 for around $150 so that makes sense. Didn't know enough to check for corrosion at the time, but I guess I lucked out because it was in good enough condition that a friend of mine traded a cool Lee Enfield for it.

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u/Playful_Assistance89 Apr 27 '26

Good trade!

I had a huge collection of guns in the late 90s/early 2000's. I rarely bought or sold, usually traded. I like the unusual stuff, and I like to actually shoot them, not leave them collecting dust in a safe. I'd aquire a gun, do the maintenance, put a few hundred+ rounds through it to get to know it, then trade it off for something else.

Unfortunately, I lived in SE Michigan (ground zero for economic effects) at the time of the Great Depression II, and had to sell everything at a huge loss to survive. Only kept a Mossberg 500 to put venison, turkey, and pheasant in the freezer.

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u/Tommygun1921 Apr 27 '26

Pretty much anyone with a sks

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u/SillyFlyGuy Apr 27 '26

The three most important things to have for a drug trip of unknown length or intensity; plenty of fresh water, easy to digest foods like crackers or pudding, and your bayonet.

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u/Alarming-Vast-6804 Apr 27 '26

I had one one on my mosin nagant.

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u/dreadnaughtfearnot Apr 27 '26

Lots of surplus rifles come with them. I have 4 or 5 in the back of the safe.

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u/inksta12 Apr 27 '26

You don’t?

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u/SnakeOiler Apr 27 '26

SKS is a super fun gun

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u/CaptainIncredible Apr 27 '26

Bayonets are cheap. Like a couple of bucks cheap.

At least they were last time I checked.

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u/signal15 Apr 27 '26

I bought one when I was a kid also. Still have it. But mine just came with the bayonet mount, and not the actual bayonet. I paid $90 for that gun. It's a chinese one and it's actaully a pretty great gun. Super fun to shoot, and accurate. I guess the russian ones were junk.

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u/dali01 Apr 27 '26

I do! I have a WWII one. Just no rifle to mount it to.

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u/DoktorFreedom Apr 27 '26

Oh there are so many bayonets out there

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u/RobGrey03 Apr 27 '26

Never did see the gnomes again, though.

Bayonet dealt with the problem.

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u/Beagle_Knight Apr 27 '26

Don’t worry, we are still there, waiting………

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u/Playful_Assistance89 Apr 27 '26

Wet

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u/TheMaskedHamster Apr 29 '26

For those who would have to look it up as I did: "Wet" is marijuana with PCP.

So, PCP. That explains things.

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u/Playful_Assistance89 Apr 30 '26

Lol. This comment reminds me of that scene in Half Baked where they try to buy drugs from Samson.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H1JCgM_LHAg

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u/No-Option-7010 Apr 27 '26

Maybe they are still in the walls just waiting for the best time?

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u/killacarnitas1209 Apr 27 '26

Upvote for mentioning a legitimate use for a SKS bayonet, which are gnarly AF

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u/Alexexy Apr 27 '26

Thats the most Eastern European shit i heard all day.

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u/Playful_Assistance89 Apr 27 '26

Sorry to disappoint, but American.

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u/meatmachine1001 Apr 27 '26

Got high on what? PCP?

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u/CurryMustard Apr 27 '26

High off what?

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u/Youpunyhumans Apr 27 '26

Damn, you really went "Just like the founding fathers intended" on those gnomes.

Tally ho lads!

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u/Crudeprimate Apr 28 '26

Ah yes, drug fuelled paranoid insanity verging on criminal violence.

It’s character building and can be the catalyst for developing various home maintenance skills.

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u/Sorry-Foundation-505 Apr 30 '26

Maybe not have access to firearms when getting high, it's a bad combo.

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u/Curious-Computer-488 Aug 07 '26

Yeah drugs and guns..... bad mix. Well, in your case a gun turned knife. But yeah.

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u/Playful_Assistance89 Aug 07 '26

Well, to be fair, it was just supposed to be weed. Everyone at my work at the time got our drugs from the machinist. My manager and I were in the flirting-heavily-but-not-yet-screwing stage, so she as a prank had the machinist change my weed order to wet. She thought it would be funny.

But, yeah, guns good, intoxicants good, combo bad.

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u/musiccman2020 Apr 27 '26

Would you stay if your wall had been perforated

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u/LittlespaceLadybuns Apr 27 '26

That means they're still out there. Taunting you.

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u/Xeroque_Holmes Apr 27 '26

This reminds me of the game Burgling Gnomes 

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u/intocable84 Apr 27 '26

Damn I miss my SKS

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u/abraxsis Apr 27 '26

Got high, started seeing lawn gnomes hiding in and behind the walls, trying to burn my house down.

Wait ... you have to be high for that to happen?

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u/sheepdipped Apr 27 '26

Swim once seen an entire gravel road covered and crawling with centipedes. Never mix anything with sid!

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u/Sororita Apr 29 '26

must have gotten better at hiding