• adhocfungus@midwest.social
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    20 days ago

    I wonder if these were an inspiration for the show Common Side Effects. Among other things, the mushrooms in the show result in everyone seeing tiny little people.

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      20 days ago

      I didnt think that Vice was clickbait.

      Nevertheless, article is about a mushroom found in Yunnan, China that causes hallucinations that last a long time and apparently always results in folks tripping out and seeing little tiny folks cruising around the place. Not the same chemical/reaction as in magic mushrooms. Sounds pretty wild.

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      19 days ago

      Im curious, they phrase it as though the hallucinations are always an unwanted side effect, but I wonder if that is the case? It makes me wonder whether it is a particularly unpleasant hallucination, i cant imagine that simply seeing little people would be described as “poisoning” or “toxic”

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        18 days ago

        Depends on who is writing the article. If you ask medical professionals, hallucinations are an unwanted side effect of ketamine which is an otherwise safe and effective anesthetic. And yet many people seem to love them

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    20 days ago

    I recall hearing that DMT hallucinations also include Lilliputian hallucinations which include them rooting around your skull

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      20 days ago

      You are referring to the machine elves I’ve tried DMT once, didn’t see them but i did spend 30 minutes listening to a imaginary guitar during my 5 minute trip. I can not recall one single chord, but i know it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve heard.

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      19 days ago

      Yeah, machine elfs are a thing with that one. We dont live in a purely physical universe. But because its difficult to prove that with any science, people think we do.

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    19 days ago

    Sounds more like taxoplasmosis than psilocybin - that specific a thing sounds like a hard coded parasite.