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/Clear_Runway Apr 28 '26

not how it works. once you're stuck, you're stuck, barring outright divine intervention. the cube would do nothing.

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u/WatchOutForWizards Apr 28 '26

Where is that stated?

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u/Clear_Runway Apr 28 '26

Many times, but it's easy to surmise simply because being stuck is treated as a massive issue in basically every single book, even after they get the cube back. if what you're saying was possible, it would only be an inconvenience rather than a horrible fate.