One Mushroom Spawns the Same Odd Vision: Tiny Humans
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Key Points:
- Doctors in China's Yunnan province have linked shared hallucinations of tiny people to eating undercooked Lanmaoa asiatica, a wild mushroom commonly consumed in the region.
- Lanmaoa asiatica, formally described in 2015 and found in China and the Philippines, produces "lilliputian hallucinations" caused by a compound distinct from known psychedelics like psilocybin.
- Research led by biology doctoral candidate Colin Domnauer at the University of Utah suggests the mushroom's compound induces unusually consistent hallucinations lasting days to a week, often accompanied by delirium and dizziness.
- Due to the prolonged and intense effects, locals reportedly avoid eating the mushroom raw, and researchers like Domnauer have refr
