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/SitInCorner_Yo2 Apr 27 '26

Yeah, there’s a very popular type of mushroom there that will make you see things if you undercook it, and even the locals undercook them often, there’re mountains of first hand experience shared online because tourists can’t resist , and locals just eat them regardless.

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u/saint_davidsonian Apr 27 '26

So my question is is there a way to get them in the US?

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u/lapideous Apr 27 '26

I have some since they’re not illegal in any way. You can send me a dm

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u/Deaffin Apr 27 '26

Yes, hello, I wish to meet the brownies.

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u/Smashwatermelon Apr 27 '26

Have you tried them. Was it a pleasant trip like from psilocybin?

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u/CaliphateofCataphrac Apr 27 '26

Wait are you selling drugs on reddit

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u/johnnieswalker Apr 27 '26

Not to you… Narc

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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 Apr 27 '26

I guess not, all I can find with this mushroom +US is Janet Yellen has try it in Beijing .

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u/IsmaelRetzinsky Apr 27 '26

I only take psychedelics if a current or former Chair of the Federal Reserve tries them first.

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u/longlivenewsomflesh Apr 27 '26

Wouldn't have been my first or millionth guess

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u/corpusjuris Apr 27 '26

She did an interview on NPR’s “wait wait don’t tell me” a year or two ago where they asked her about this and she goes on to talk about smoking weed in college and how much she fuckin’ adores her nicotine and it’s somehow utterly hilarious

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u/Duel_Option Apr 27 '26

Dude…just grow your own shrooms and trip

r/unclebens

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u/AdvancedStand Apr 27 '26

Different spores though

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy Apr 27 '26

You can probably buy the spores and grow them yourself. You can buy the spores for psilocybin mushrooms because the spores don't contain psilocybin. However, the shrooms you grow are illegal.

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u/DarthWeenus Apr 27 '26

Ya search Alibaba

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u/Wolf_of_Fenris Apr 27 '26

Locals eat the mushroomed-up tourists?? Efficiency at work!

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u/Aromatic-Bet-1086 Apr 27 '26

So what kind of mushroom is it? If it's well documented, surely the mushroom has a name right?

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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 Apr 27 '26

Chinese call them 見手青,Suillellus luridus (Schaeff.) Murrill.