The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans

> "It sounded so bizarre that there could be a mushroom out there causing fairytale-like visions reported across cultures and time," Domnauer says.

Now I'm kinda curious whether fairy tales are the result of these visions or the other way around. Probably both.

Here's the Wikipedia article, which provides more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogenic_bolete_mushroom

Dennis McKenna, mentioned in the article, is the brother of the late Terence McKenna.

Make sure it's fully cooked or you may see little people is a wild table side instruction.

>Current tests suggest it is not likely related to any other known psychedelic compound. For one, the trips it produces are unusually long, commonly lasting 12 to 24 hours, and in some cases even causing hospital stays of up to a week.

Plenty of common psychedelics have durations in excess of 12 hours. Some even in excess of 24 e.g. high doses of 2C-P. This may be a novel compound, but the duration is not necessarily an indicator.

Common Side Effects? (show)

In my youth I experimented with hallucinogenic drugs. Having shared hallucinations are very easy. It often just requires that someone give you an idea of a hallucination, or someone tells you what they see, and your brain will make you see it as well.

Maybe people know these things make you see small people, and then they are primed to do so.

Almost all of the reports from people I know who have done ayahuasca have reported seeing "elves". It's not only common, they say it's not a "valid" trip unless you do, and even converse with them.

Though I don't know any reports of profound conversations.

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393936

So smurfs?

Wonder if it will turn out to be related to muscimol that is in amanita mushrooms, as that is always described as more delirious and dream-like

Yes, but where can I get some?

But can we grow them in the UK?

This sounds like a variation of Machine Elves -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine#Entity_enco...

Those are primarily associated with DMT (the one time I tried it, I too had such an encounter and I didn't know it was a thing until years later).

I'm sure I'll be corrected on this but I think DMT and Psilocybin ultimately affect the same pathways so it's just more evidence that Machine Elves are real! (/s on the real part).

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