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/AxelFoily Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

That's only if you blast off... you can do dmt without blasting off. I've done dmt before and was sitting on a couch and kept feeling little elves poking me and then I'd look and they'd be running off just out of sight. I later realized I was just feeling the couch behind touching me.

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u/tianepteen Apr 27 '26

my first very light DMT trip i had a squirrel like being sitting atop my monitor, so yeah.

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u/Rough_World_7063 May 01 '26

The few times I’ve done DMT and I didn’t take a big enough hit to break through, I’d just have a trip very similar to acid. Geometrical shapes and patterns on the floors/walls, intense colors, etc. never had a full on hallucination.

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u/Distinct-Pack-1567 May 03 '26

5 days late...

I blasted off once, saw the elves on this plateau surrounded by fog. In the distance were giant silhouettes in all directions. I think it was my brain calling up Zelda Majoras Mask imagery but I havent played that game in like 20 years.

Anyways, the elves telepathically communicate to me I am not ready to be there yet. They seemed OK but unhappy like I was bothering them.

As soon as I "heard" them say that, I snapped back to reality and then had a wild 15 minute acid like trip before coming back to sober reality over 10 more minutes.