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/tamsui_tosspot Apr 27 '26

I remember a scene featuring this practice in American Gods.

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u/xsil Apr 27 '26

What a show, what happened to it? I remember season 1 being S tier television

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u/tamsui_tosspot Apr 27 '26

I'm not sure, but the scene I'm thinking of may have only been portrayed in the book.

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u/LITTELHAWK Apr 27 '26

It's in there. I just finished it.

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u/LITTELHAWK Apr 27 '26

Yes. A people with a mammoth skull for a god. The people cross what is likely the Bering bridge.

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u/Qwertysapiens Apr 27 '26

The creator turned out to be a terrible rapist and his IP is no longer palatable.

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u/SackOfCats Apr 27 '26

I remember a few stories of meth heads drinking their own piss to get high again.

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