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It is interesting how the hallucinations consistently represent tiny people/elves to the mushroom consumer, even across geography/culture. I wonder what the br
by astronads 9mo ago
It 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 ?