If what you want is to see tiny people all over your plate, you 100% absolutely have to try Lanmaoa asiatica. The mushroom is a popular food during mushroom season, but if undercooked has the same effect worldwide: lilliputian hallucinations.
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lol, no thanks, i hallucinate on my own without drugs :-) just kidding! mushrooms are fun for other people! I prefer non-hallucinogenic mushrooms fried in butter :-) #Ymmv
YES...AND... I have seen that hallucinogenics work for many people in small disciplined doses as per Michael Pollan's book: How to change your mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Change_Your_Mind and the experiences of many of my friends. They don't work for me :-)
Reminds me of the amazing animated TV show Common Side Effects 🤸♂️
yesss we watched that show too last year, and this made me think of that — I wonder if it was just really well researched, or if it was a complete coincidence
The full article is fascinating. Near the end there is an aside that the trip from this species when it's undercooked is one "commonly lasting one to three days after an onset of 12 to 24 hours" and that's why it doesn't appear to be really deliberately cultivated or sought out for its psycedelic effect. I experience visual effects from migraine aura onset, and they are the common ones people report that are somewhat specific also - a backwards C shape of light, and pixelated-like geometric shapes. The idea that our species' brains are similar enough to produce the same theme and type of hallucinations when the same biochemical changes occur is so interesting to me.
I have been getting the "migraine aura" things for decades, but I've never had the accompanying headache. It wasn't until a few years ago, when Hubert Airy's drawings made the rounds on the net, that I even realized that what I had been seeing was related to migraines.
Ho-ly crap. This is what I've been seeing?
I see exactly that backwards C when I have what I had previously considered visual "spells."
I hadn't considered migraine aura because I've never had an accompanying headache.
Reminds me of when I told my wife about "that numb feeling in your mouth when you eat celery." It's how I discovered I'm allergic to celery.
Perhaps there should be a log somewhere of what are common (?) feelings/reactions to stimuli - especially food - so we can check. Like a reaction dictionary.
I used to quite enjoy the visual effects of LSD in my youth, but eight hours of that was plenty. A few days of little people crawling all over would be really draining as well as boring. The fact that everyone gets the same effect is super interesting, and, combined with the fact that people have had the same hallucination for other reasons points at the involvement of some very specific brain region or structure. Which then begs the question of why we have a brain region dedicated to hallucinating little people.
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