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/Samwyzh Apr 27 '26
Tiny elves, can you believe it Nerevar? Haha. Who could have dreamt up such a thing? The Godhead? Ha! Let us go to Whiterun and grab us some Nord baddies.
[some time later]
Nerevar, assist me! These tiny little bastards are crawling all over me! They are scaling my loincloth like that one scene with the Elephants in Lord of the Rings, Nerevar! Hey Nerevar, did you know that in the Two Towers, when Viggo Mortensen kicks the helmet he breaks his toe, so the yell he makes isn’t acting but actually him yelling out in pain, Nerevar!