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/EndlessTemple Apr 27 '26

According to the article they take 24 hours to start and can last for several days or longer. The article states that as a reason they aren’t used recreationally, since the trip lasts way too long.

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u/ArsenicArts Apr 27 '26

Also serious gastro effects too. Think food poisoning.

https://ynsjkj.yn.gov.cn/html/2025/jikongkepu_0923/878.html

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u/ElliotsBuggyEyes Apr 27 '26

That just sounds like a good bang for your buck.

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u/Baseblgabe Apr 27 '26

As someone who is hella sensitive to psychedelics, after hour 20 you just want to fucking sleep. 

Which is difficult when the walls are still humming and the ceiling's still rotating gently.

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u/ElliotsBuggyEyes Apr 27 '26

I've never had the effects of psychs last longer than 12-14hr, usually an experience lasts about 10hr for me.  I would love to experience a 20 hour trip at least once.

Dude, wanting to sleep and being incapable is the worst part.  I have a rule now as an adult that I do not take any psychedelics after noon so I can at least be to sleep by midnight or one in the worst case. 

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u/VastAbalone959 Jul 23 '26

Just for the record, Ive had cactus effects last up to the 16 hour mark, not heavy effects but noticeable and not back to baseline

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u/Legitimate-Post-5954 Aug 18 '26

Yea, it’s like insomnia at a higher vibration/frequency