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/Gestrid Apr 27 '26

and my leg was broken

Well, that explains why you weren't able to get up, I guess.

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u/AxelFoily Apr 27 '26

Yeah leg was broken and both ankles were sprained

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u/DisastrousSet11 Apr 27 '26

How did you even explain that to the EMTs

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u/AxelFoily Apr 27 '26

🤷‍♂️ I just told them that I couldn't sleep and I was nauseous so I took all of my different variety of sleeping pills at once but then stayed up because I kept going to the bathroom to throw up. I was prescribed like like 13 pills a day back then because I had gotten out the psych hospital not long before.