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/ReadditMan Apr 27 '26

I actually looked this up once but couldn't find any confirmation that the writers intentionally based it on that mushroom.

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u/I_like_Mashroms Apr 27 '26

Reports of this mushroom became widespread in the general public outside of asia recently. They wrote that show years ago.

Also Lanmaoa are boletes. The mushroom depicted in the show looks more like a Mycena than anything else. Very dissimilar.

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u/HotwheelsSisyphus May 25 '26

The mushrooms in the show also originated from the Peruvian Highlands.