SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED

Scientists have discovered a mushroom that makes you hallucinate tiny people. Little tiny people that follow the laws of physics. Lanmao asiatica. The specific type of hallucination that this mushroom causes is called Lilliputian hallucinations. It's named after the little tiny people in Gulliver's Travels. This is the actual paper. It's behind a paywall, so I couldn't access it. So, this information is from this article, which interviews the lead author of Colin Dornauer. Lead author. In it, he describes the specific hallucinations. Report seeing dozens. Little people. About 3 to 30 centimeters tall, in incredible detail, like they're actually about 90% of people describe them as little elves or clowns or other fairy-like figures dressed in colorful clothes. Western scientists first heard reports of "Mushroom Madness" in the Papua New Guinea Highlands in 1934. Papua New Guinea people called it "Mushroom Madness." A few decades later, some anthropologists went out there. They narrowed it down to a group of mushrooms in the bolete family. But when they, they couldn't find anything that suggested they were actually psychoactive. There was nothing. And then in the 90s, there were more reports from Southwest China of people that were consuming mushrooms from the same, the bolete family, having the same hallucinations. The researchers narrowed it down to a newly discovered Asiatica. But again, the research just kind of fizzled. In 2024, the lead author of this paper, Colin Dornauer, he heard reports of a similar thing going on in the Philippines. That made three different cultures that all reported similar things. Seeing these little elf-like people that were 3 to 30 cm tall after consuming mushrooms. So he thought, "We must be too early." So to test this, they needed to collect the. They were able to get mushrooms from these two locations. They weren't able to collect any from there. But with these two, they were able to genetically test them. The same species. The two cultures were consuming. And they think Papua New Guinea is probably the same species. This study, they found four new species from this group. 17 total out of all of those. This was the only species with psychoactive properties. Now, why is that a big deal? The chemistry here doesn't suggest there's anything psychoactive in these mushrooms. But the evidence suggests otherwise. That we must be missing something. There is something we don't know about yet. That's exciting. We know things like that they can help people. Lots of people from that. With this, if we can figure out what's going on here. Ways this can help people too. They mention a variety of things similar symptoms to seeing these little, elf-like people. And this, this mushroom is the only thing we have discovered up that can trigger it on purpose. See here at the bottom, they actually mention our next step is to isolate and identify that new psychedelic compound. So they're hoping to figure out something entirely new. And hopefully that, a lot of people. This is cool science. And it all stems from mushrooms. And and believing in their stories. Not just assuming some made-up thing.