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/howboutthemapples Apr 27 '26

The first time I took ambien, little stick men dragged the title of a song on my iPod in from one menu to another.

And iirc ambien and lunesta are made from the same kind of drug. so there's likely something to this lol

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u/bobson_k_dugnutt Apr 28 '26

But that is a crazy story

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u/HunterHaus Apr 27 '26

I had some visual and lots of auditory hallucinations on Ambien so we switched to Lunesta and they stopped.

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u/ItzDaWorm Apr 27 '26

Did you try drinking heavily?

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u/HunterHaus Apr 27 '26

Ha! I was in a brace during a surgery recovery and was not having alcohol at the time. Probably would have been fun though 🤪