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Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
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- astronads 9mo agoIt is interesting how the hallucinations consistently represent tiny people/elves to the mushroom consumer, even across geography/culture. I wonder what the brain is doing…
- nospice 9mo agoCould be that the mushroom just temporarily interferes with the substances the elves put in our water supply to keep us in the dark?
- egypturnash 9mo agos/elves/government
- joe8756438 9mo agoexactly, the real question is what the elves are doing while they’re unseen.
- ok_dad 9mo agoThey keep the universe running.
- bell-cot 9mo agoMaking toys, caring for reindeer, sleight maintenance, ... And spook work for His Jolliness' Secret Service, to keep their Naughty and Nice databases current.
- johnea 9mo agoWe should've asked Terence McKenna... It could be a subspecies of the "machine elves"...
- blincoln 9mo agoThis was my first thought as well. I've always been fascinated by written accounts of DMT triggering such oddly specific effects for users.
- amarant 9mo agoI can answer the what, that parts easy! The real question is WHY they keep stealing my underwear and left-foot socks?
- eykanal 9mo agoThis is some real antimemetics stuff here :) (https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub if you're not familiar)
- Tempatio 9mo agoYeah the mushrooms are obviously an amnestic that lets you see the elves which are usually antimimetically cloaked.
- febusravenga 9mo agoAmazing rabbit hole, thank you for link.
- treetalker 9mo agoWould be interesting if the chemical mechanism is related or similar to the DMT one that creates the "machine elves" experience.
- astronads 9mo agoYeah, the machine elves rabbit hole is interesting for sure. I hope a lot more rigorous science delves into both mushrooms and DMT
- andy_ppp 9mo agoSomeone has to support consciousness and reality I guess, thanks to the elves I say…
- etyhhgfff 9mo agoI had a DMT breakthrough experience and was able to communicate, via something like Neuralink, to the entities and for me they did not look like machine elves, but rather some type of alien (a bit like species 8472). So not everyone is seeing elves is my point here.
- flir 9mo agoThese mushrooms are small, these elves are far away.
- seg_lol 9mo agoYou will get a kick out of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVUuoXAkuUg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVUuoXAkuUg a Corridor Crew video on in-camera forced perspective effects.
- bilsbie 9mo agoOccam’s razor would say they’re real.
- tokai 9mo agoLilliputian hallucinations are also common in mental illnesses with hallucinations. Definitely some kind of physical foundation for it in the human brain.
- adzm 9mo agoI imagine it is something similar to pareidolia.
- newman8r 9mo agoreminds me of trip reports from people trying Salvia Divinorum - there's even a name for these tiny people, 'Smelves'
- akka47 9mo agoSince we're in the topic of elves and common hallucinations, I want to share these Salvia trip replicas that some say are extremely accurate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2IRKuS3sSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2IRKuS3sSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65XfIpJdlEY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65XfIpJdlEY
- ceroxylon 9mo agoIt gets the visuals accurate, but the experience includes a lot of physical sensation that is very difficult to convey, e.g. the 'wind' that pushes you back and the discomfort of going into a chaotic dissociated state. You see those things but it feels very 'real'.
- OldSchool 9mo agoWow, looks terrifying! I can only speak for medically-administered intravenous Ketamine, but I would describe it as like relatively effortlessly floating inside of the non-physical space inside of you and meeting yourself in metaphor, all the while completely aware. The biggest risk seemed to be temporarily becoming a relatively inanimate part of the infrastructure there, and even that was a sort of pleasant and satisfying state.
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- pea 9mo agoI think it makes sense given the following: - Your brain has been trained extensively to recognize faces / people. Even very small babies can do this. - Your brain processes a large amount of mostly noise, and sometimes mislabels noise as objects, which trends towards face-like things (see: seeing faces in clouds, people in shadows etc.) Various classes of substances make this effect more noticeable (even stimulants, including caffeine) - The jump from that to 'elves' is largely just cultures have some form of small magical person.
- sandspar 9mo ago>Caffeine increases pareidolia I like that coffee is clearly a drug, a mind-alterer. But it's mostly harmless so it's been boosted as a sort of society-wide mascot. Humans really love drugs.
- HarHarVeryFunny 9mo agoI wonder what lab rats would experience - lots of tiny rats ?
- candiddevmike 9mo agoSWIM would like to know how to get paid as (instead of paying to be) "an expert who explores new mushrooms".
- neogodless 9mo agoSomeone Who Isn't Me?
- MrDrone 9mo agoYes, this was a common phrase in early psychedelic and other drug experience sharing forums. Like a verbal talisman people believe kept them from incriminating themselves. I haven't thought about it in years. Delightful.
- awesome_dude 9mo agoYeah - I was going to ask... for a friend
- mistersquid 9mo ago> Someone Who Isn't Me? Funny, I saw “SWIM” and reasoned “Someone Who Is Me”, thinking “is not” would be represented as “Is Not” instead of the contraction. :)
- Aurornis 9mo agoIn some online drug forums it was believed that if you used SWIM instead of I for all of your posts, the government was powerless to use any of the posts against you. You can still find threads on forums where everyone is saying SWIM did this and SWIM experienced that as if they have discovered a loophole to protect themselves from the law. It always reminded me of those FTP servers in the early days of the internet that had big warning banners declaring the law enforcement was not allowed to connect.
- culi 9mo agoI feel like most people didn't actually believe it would somehow grant them legal protection but still used it kinda tongue-in-cheek. I think it's kinda cute and still use "my friend Swim..." in a joking way when talking about legally dubious escapades
- isoprophlex 9mo agoIncredible! A mushroom that bruises blue, but the visions are seemingly unlike traditional tryptamines, and there's no psilocybin found in the mushroom. Also no muscimol present (the thing in Fly Agaric, the 'other' type of hallucinogenic mushroom compound) yet there's definitely a consistent syndrome of hallucinations if you eat it undercooked. Could this mean we're on the brink of discovering an entirely new class of hallucinogens?
- culi 9mo agoFrom the Wikipedia > In 2023, Lanmaoa asiatica received international media attention after U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was reported to have eaten a dish that contained it during an official visit to China. Yellen stated that the dish had been thoroughly cooked, and she experienced no ill effects (hallucinations). It seems Rubroboletus sinicus, another bolete, is also suspected to have this effect. These hallucinogenic mushrooms are collectively known as "xiao ren ren" in China. They seem to be relatively well known in parts of China, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea but the ethnomycological work in English is just not really there. It also seems like it's most likely something in the tryptamine class which could explain the blue bruising. The Wikipedia page has more info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogenic_bolete_mushroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogenic_bolete_mushroom
- renewiltord 9mo agoxiǎo rén rén? Like “small people”? Okay, if the mushrooms are literally called little guy mushroom and you see little guys running around then surely this is an old discovery.
- culi 9mo agoWell yes ofc this is an old "discovery". Boletes are known choice edibles around the world so ofc people would discover that if they undercook this mushroom they would trip. We even have some written history about it: > The Chinese Daoist Ge Hong wrote in Baopuzi (The Master Who Embraces Simplicity) around 300 CE that eating a certain wild mushroom raw would result in attainment of transcendence immediately, suggesting that the mushrooms may have been known for thousands of years.
- throw310822 9mo agoI was disappointed that the article doesn't contain pictures of these little people.
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- throwup238 9mo agoIt does but the liliputians are invisible on photographs unless you’ve eaten the undercooked mushroom.
- dekhn 9mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cottingley_Fairies_1.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cottingley_Fairies_1.jpg
- felubra 9mo agoStrangely enough, I just finished listening today to this podcast episode on the Cottingley Fairies (it’s a great listen):: https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/photographing-fairies-classic https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/phot...
- pjerem 9mo agoEasy, eat another well known species of uncooked mushrooms so that your camera is now able to eat the mushroom.
- chpatrick 9mo agoCommon Side Effects anyone?
- nck_p 9mo agoProbably something like temporary death and teleportation
- morningsam 9mo agoWas my first thought as well. I had no idea those little guys were based on something real.
- spjt 9mo agoLet's ban it before anyone finds out if it's useful
- culi 9mo agoJust need a minority in America to associate it with
- tt24 9mo agoDo you lot ever get tired of saying stuff like this? It’s not 2016 anymore, there’s no need for it.
- culi 9mo agoBuddy relax. It's a joke about the way the drug war has historically developed. You might get more out of it if you read some history about marijuana in the US
- jyounker 9mo agoYou appear to lack the historical knowledge to appreciate the joke: The war on drugs was specifically designed to allow the government to go after the left and black people. Nixon's domestic policy chief said this in 1994: * https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/ https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminal...
- amanaplanacanal 9mo agoIt appears there are several blue staining boletes in the same genus that grow in the US. Seems like a fertile area for study.
- tartoran 9mo agoIt's Elves all the way down.
- markus_zhang 9mo agoI wish it were another dimension, or breaking through the Matrix. I never had the chance to experience such items but look forward to doing so.
- memming 9mo agoAparently 见手青 is mildly toxic yet commonly consumed in Yunan.
- culi 9mo agoSpinach too is mildly toxic because of its oxalate content yet we eat it all the time. Some of those toxic saponins even have certain health benefits. There are plenty other examples of toxic foods we regularly consume: legumes contain deadly saponins, beets contain oxalates, and potatoes contain glycoalkaloids From what I read Suillellus luridus (见手青) is completely fine when cooked
- thaumasiotes 9mo agoMeat is also toxic when eaten raw; that is not generally held to be a reason to avoid eating it cooked.
- VladVladikoff 9mo agoWhat toxins does raw meat contain? Or are you referring to bacteria contaminated raw meat?
- thaumasiotes 9mo agoDoesn't have to be bacteria. Raw meat can contain any kind of horrifying contamination. Viruses, bacteria, mold, nematodes... there is no limit. It's the perfect substrate for everything. Living toxins are much worse than nonliving ones because the living toxins can reproduce to dangerous levels even if you consume a tiny dose. But if for some reason you think they're not dangerous, foods that contain nonliving toxins when unprocessed are also commonly eaten; a major example would be cassava. See also acorns, nardoo, fugu, and the Greenland shark. Most things prefer not to be eaten; you can't let that stop you.
- jumperabg 9mo agoIf used can we hallucinate and predict the HN news of tomorrow(especially any acquisition related news)?
- metalman 9mo agoyes,but you wont care.
- czzprr 9mo agoI have a friend who gave up taking regular magic mushrooms because he always hallucinated tiny Power Rangers.
- fluoridation 9mo agoInteresting. Did he find it boring, annoying, disturbing, or what?
- culi 9mo agoGiving up right when its getting good
- anigbrowl 9mo agoWhen mice are given chemical extracts of Lanmaoa asiatica, their behavior shifts noticeably compared to controls. Doesn't say how, for some reason. I presume they are shocked to see tiny mice, but I would like to know what behaviors they exhibited.
- Ccecil 9mo agoAre they seeing tiny mice...or are they seeing the same 2cm tall "people"?
- Aurornis 9mo agoThe Wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogenic_bolete_mushroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogenic_bolete_mushroom ) talks about effects lasting for days, even in animal studies. Some of the historical records claimed effects lasting even longer, from months to years, though this sounds like triggered psychosis. So perhaps not very recreational as might be assumed given the topic.
- why-o-why 9mo ago"Days"?!? Hard pass. My experiments with shrooms in college was fun, but I couldn't deal with the 8-12 hours of hallucinating.
- subscribed 9mo agoI guess you didn't touch LSD? I think 12 would be considered short :) I knew personally someone whose trips usually took 48 hours. Unusually long, yes, and really exhausting.
- why-o-why 9mo agoLSD had the same duration with me, but more psychological & emotional impact. So I avoided it for two reasons. Weirdly, all my divorced 50+ year-old male peers are now into K and DMT. They are raving about DMT, but I feel like my brain is too frail-as-is.
- subscribed 9mo agoInteresting. Admittedly i wanted to try both but back then I didn't have opportunity, and now the mindspace is just not too.... Right for the risks. Maybe when I'm too old to worry and it's too late to care :)
- fluoridation 9mo agoDamn. 8-12? For me the peak always lasted 2-3 hours and I was sober again after 7 hours.
- RomanPushkin 9mo agoThe next step should be to send enthusiasts there, get samples of this mushroom from that market, and introduce it to the underground for personal research. That’s normally what happens when something interesting is discovered. For example, members of a famous forum recently found, analyzed for alkaloid content, and re-cultivated a strain of Phalaris Aquatica because of its notable alkaloid content. Some other mushrooms became popular this way as well — for example, Psilocybe Natalensis, first found in Natal, Africa. Or the now famous Tamarind Tree British Virgin Islands (TTBVI) Panaeolus Cyanescens that’s widely cultivated at home. So IMO it's not only scientists, but often enthusiasts who end up gifting these discoveries to everyone else!
- RickS 9mo agoThe natalensis story is even stranger: the underground was growing what they thought was natalensis for many years, until someone finally did the sequencing and found out that what everyone had grown and loved was actually new to science. At this point last year, their "natalensis" received its proper scientific name, ochraceocentrata. The underground then had to go out and fetch some actual natalensis, which is only just now being introduced to those circles (eg by Yoshi Amano). I haven't yet tried true natalensis, but ochras are definitely distinguishable from the usual cubensis, experentially, and I'd heartily recommend them to anyone that likes that kind of thing.
- Liquix 9mo agoThe issue is lanmaoa asiatica is ectomycorrhizal, meaning it grows exclusively on the roots of certain plant species in a symbiotic relationship. This is not like TTBVI or p. ochraceocentrata (misclassified as p. natalensis until recently) where amateurs can produce grain spawn with relative ease. Cultivation would involve planting or having access to the correct host species (Yunnan pine) which is a prohibitive barrier for most. It's also not yet known if the active compound can survive dehydration like psilocybin. If not, it would mean even experiencing l. asiatica will be very difficult to impossible for enthusiasts not residing in its native region.
- contingencies 9mo agoLived in Yunnan for over a decade, primarily as a vegetarian. Mushrooms there are indeed many and varied and quite tasty. Many poisonings annually but the government are pretty good at helping people to ID with warning posters. Personally ate many mushrooms that looked like this and never had hallucinations. Did have some others which made me feel a little ill, however. I suspect locals are unduly relaxed about types science would avoid due to hepatoxicity. While occasionally FOAFs would get hallucinogenic effects from dining, I don't recall explicitly hearing of anyone seeing little people, or hearing the term he details in this writing. As such, I wonder where this guy gets his info from. Certainly, most Yunnanese would describe these mushrooms as 牛肝菌 ("bolete") and more specific Chinese common names for similar reddish species would include 桃红牛肝菌 ("peach-colored bolete"). As a general type, they are very common in markets across much of Yunnan. Given the claims, the clearly infrequent effects, and the personal experience I can trust, I would conclude with three theories: perhaps either the compounds are rapidly degraded when non-fresh, safely broken down when cooking (traditionally these mushrooms are cut thinly before sauteeing or boiling in hotpot), or there are one or two "look alike" species which are more rarely found and contain additional compounds which are responsible for the occasional effects.
- reissbaker 9mo agoAccording to Wikipedia, the Yunnan mushrooms indeed have their hallucinogens broken down after cooking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogenic_bolete_mushroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogenic_bolete_mushroom Good guess! Although, the local hospital records imply that hallucinations can last for days or even months, so uh, probably not a great idea to go looking for them...
- contingencies 9mo agoAccording to a voluminous illustrated tome I acquired during my extended stay, Yunnan has at least seven species of native psilocybe. Like nearby areas along the Himalayas, cannabis and opium are endemic and widely utilized in traditional cultures of the area. Heroin processed in Myanmar became a problem in rural Yunnan the early 2000s and present-era government shut it down with a heavy-handed campaign around 15 years ago. These days it's probably trans-shipped more than locally consumed.
- card_zero 9mo agoSo, about one mushroom species in five is poisonous. Why is the ratio so low, why are there lots of edible ones? Without hard-shelled seeds to spread, why be eaten? And the poisonous ones apparently don't use color as a warning signal, and don't smell all that bad, and some of the poisons have really mild effects, like "gives only some people diarrhea" or "makes a hangover worse". Meanwhile three of the deadliest species seemed to need their toxin (amanitin) so much that they picked it up through horizontal gene transfer. Why did just those ones need to be deadly? In addition to which we have these species that don't even make you sick, just make you trip out, a function which looks to have evolved three times over in different ways. What kind of half-assed evolutionary strategies are these? What do mushrooms want?
- tirant 9mo agoThat’s also my thought. The seem to be inside some type of evolutionary gray area or dead-end, where mutations in the edibility axis do not seem to matter much for the survival of the specifies. So we end up getting species of all extremes: extremely poisonous, highly valuable for coursing, trippy, non-trippy, mildly poisonous, etc.
- yieldcrv 9mo agoMetastatic cancer where our organs and cells grow every direction forever until resources expire is extremely counterproductive and doesn’t matter for the survival of our species because it usually occurs after reproductive age and the reproduction happened. Perpetuating the flawed genes in the next generation. Its the same with mushrooms, the difference being that not only do the spores exist in high numbers, a mushroom getting eaten does nothing to the mycelium that spawns the mushroom
- choilive 9mo agoIts the same evolutionary patterns that plants went through. Most mushrooms are edible because their spores can pass through the digestive system of most animals, thus allowing them to spread. Other mushrooms developed toxins to protect their fruiting bodies - often the biggest threat isn't larger animals, but insects. Toxins that are neurotoxic to insect nervous systems, happen to cause mostly "harmless" psychedelic trips to our brains. Other toxin mechanisms happen to be deadly to both insects and humans. As proof of this evolutionary arms race, there are fruit flies that have developed resistance to amatoxins.
- anthk 9mo agoThat reminds me of Mckenna/Peter Meyer and the fractal time. https://www.fractal-timewave.com/articles.php https://www.fractal-timewave.com/articles.php You can get a free-libre Unix timewave generator there: https://github.com/kl4yfd/timewave_z3r0 https://github.com/kl4yfd/timewave_z3r0 It's a bit pseudo-science but some Chinese wrote an article on the I-Ching and patterns and it can have a bit of truth on it. https://vixra.org/abs/2409.0093 https://vixra.org/abs/2409.0093 [ Chinese, use whatever tool you like to translate it] I said this because both Mckenna and Peter did writtings about DMT and the experiences under it: https://scribe.rip/illumination/terence-mckenna-explores-the-invisible-landscape-ea69ef7d8ccf https://scribe.rip/illumination/terence-mckenna-explores-the... >Terence had symbolically left a single mushroom standing in the middle of the hut. As they sat there, for a fleeting moment Terence saw “not a mature mushroom but a planet, the earth, lustrous and alive, blue and tan and dazzling white.” Dennis saw the exact same image and concluded the experiment had been a success. Terence was not convinced. I saw this in a dream too; but I remember descending uber fast from space to home, as if I were in a amusement ride, that one where you are dropped at high speeds from a fair height, but with far more vertigo. Also, I was in space in some kind of a capsule before the jump.
- therobots927 9mo agoMcKenna also talked quite a bit about talking to little elves on DMT.
- anthk 9mo agoThese could be leftovers from genetical, hereditary fears (and helpful feelings) against wild beasts since prehistoric times.
- therobots927 9mo agoOr it could be evidence that consciousness is more complicated and interconnected than we think. Regarding the time wave I actually purchased the software but haven’t managed to get it to run. I like a lot of mckennas ideas but I do get the sense that he went off the deep end towards the end. Maybe it had something to do with his brain cancer.
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- kylehotchkiss 9mo agoAuthor flies around the world to find a shroom that makes reality feel like Super Mario and didn't even bite into one... lost opportunity
- oytis 9mo agoExperts
- OhMeadhbh 9mo agoHmm... having trouble getting that URL. Archive.org has a recent snapshot at https://web.archive.org/web/20251226204255/https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-causes-fairytale-hallucinations https://web.archive.org/web/20251226204255/https://nhmu.utah...
- stevenjgarner 9mo agoNo the site is just having its own "fairytale-like hallucinations"
- Bjorkbat 9mo agoI’m sure there’s some boring neuro-chemical explanation for this, and I won’t doubt or deny the neuro-chemical explanation, but the fact that there’s a mushroom that consistently brings about hallucinations of tiny people is so bizarre that I kind of want to indulge in equally bizarre explanations. Maybe it’s not a hallucination and this mushroom simply allows us to see the tiny people all around us. Maybe mushrooms are intelligent and are intentionally making us hallucinate tiny people. It’s a little bit crazy, I know, but it’s odd to me that evolutionary forces would produce a mushroom that makes you have some specific hallucinations, rather than simply make things swirl together or simply produce intense feelings of euphoria or dread. I mean, marijuana just gets you high and that’s that.
- sandspar 9mo agoPerhaps human-like creatures are so common in drug hallucinations because we're human, social animals, creatures who are maximally interested in other humans. If you gave drugs to dogs then perhaps they'd see human-like things mixed with dog-like things. I assume crocodiles, solitary animals, would see nothing besides wounded fish or maybe sexy female crocodiles.
- puttycat 9mo agoHugged to death. Archived mirror: https://archive.is/CwDtf https://archive.is/CwDtf
- ProjectArcturis 9mo agoSite seems to be overwhelmed rn. https://archive.vn/CwDtf https://archive.vn/CwDtf
- anonzzzies 9mo agoPsilocybin always gives me fairytale like, animated and very vivid hallucinations. Would be curious how these differ.
- malikolivier 9mo agoIf I remember correctly, the properties mentioned in this document are well-known and commonly found in mushroom field guides or scientific literature written in the Chinese language. I've been to Yunnan and have eaten that mushroom too (properly cooked!). We can find closely related species to this one in the wild in Japan too, but documentation for those Lanmaoa species found outside China is currently lacking, I believe. EDIT: Found the field guide I was thinking about on my shelf. It's "中国真菌志 牛肝菌科(III)" [1], which is only about boletes! [1] https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E7%9C%9F%E8%8F%8C%E5%BF%97%20%C2%B7%20%E7%AC%AC%E5%85%AD%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%89%E5%8D%B7%E7%89%9B%E8%82%9D%E8%8F%8C%E7%A7%91%20%28III%29/63230910 https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E7%9C%9F%E8%...
- alex_young 9mo agoArchive: https://web.archive.org/web/20251226204255/https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-causes-fairytale-hallucinations https://web.archive.org/web/20251226204255/https://nhmu.utah...
- calebm 9mo agoI feel like the natural test to do is: do experiments, and see if different people see the same little people doing the same things. That would move the observations from subjective to objective perspective.
- Sargos 9mo agoTesting the theory of whether psychedelics are just inside our heads or whether our consciousness travels somewhere objectively really is why this Tales From The Trip video is my favorite videos. Both men see the same blue woman which is very interesting! https://youtu.be/P_34oNWmNsc?si=_k2CG5b-TVuDaFvM https://youtu.be/P_34oNWmNsc?si=_k2CG5b-TVuDaFvM
- Razengan 9mo agoI say it again, fungi and cephalopods are the closest things to aliens we have on this world.
- d-lisp 9mo agoThe more I look at Animalia species the more I tend to judge this is all alien compared to ... mountains. Eyes, hair, hands, feet, genitalia : this all becomes pretty weird if I look at it "objectively".
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- bjt 9mo agoLooks like the site is being hugged to death. Here's another instance of the article (I think). https://attheu.utah.edu/science-technology/mushroom-causes-fairytale-like-hallucinations/ https://attheu.utah.edu/science-technology/mushroom-causes-f...
- lionkor 9mo agohttps://archive.ph/CwDtf https://archive.ph/CwDtf
- Ekaros 9mo agoReminds me of Lem's The Futurological Congress. Where drugs were speculated to be used in wars to make people imagine war machines. Much cheaper solution to make opponent imagine a bomber plane than actually to build enough of them...
- anon84873628 9mo agoWhich reminds me of the psychoactive assault makers in Lina Nguyen's nanotech novels.
- MaysonL 9mo agoReminiscent of Terence McKenna and his DMT elves…
- purplezooey 9mo agoLet's get Rockefeller up in here
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- gaia 9mo agoPaging https://paulstamets.com https://paulstamets.com PS: wouldn't it be nice to actually be able to ping his DID from anywhere?