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Lanmaoa asiatica

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A couple of days ago i read an article about a mushroom, lanmaoa asiatica. It was titled something like:"this mushroom makes you see tiny people", so obviously i was kind of intrigued.

It doesn't appear to contain psycho-active tryptamines though. The active substance is unknown, and the experience can last for several days. From what i've read about it thus far, i'd say that it's probably not entirely safe to consume this mushroom with the intent of seeing tiny people. The article stated that sometimes the effects are permanent, so the tiny people never go away. Imagine that:oops:

The mushrooms are inactive when heated and apparently often on the menu in southwest china and birma.

So while it's probably not such a good idea to try eat this mushroom uncooked, i find it intriguing that when it is eaten raw, seeing tiny people is so consistently experienced regardless of set and setting.
What to make of this? Do our brains have a normally inactive tiny people module? Or maybe there's some other mushroom or plant that can make us see giant mice...
 
That's curious. Tiny people as in, everyone appears smaller, or just that you see tiny people among the regularly-sized people that aren't actually there otherwise?
The article said that people who ate them saw liliputleans walking on their plates after consuming tne mushrooms.

At first i thought that this article was an april fools joke or something, but in that case it's a very elaborate one. I found several articles on it including one by the BBC. And a wikipedia page.
 
Yeah, I've seen talk of Xiao renren (if my recollection is correct already a couple of times over the past 15 - 20 years or so. One was in a more general article on psychoactive mushrooms in east Asia, the other was specifically about the 'little people' mushroom.

Time to dig up the references, I guess.
 
David Arora was likely the author of the xiao renren 'mushroom of the little people' article, I'm pretty certain about that.

[Edit: that's exactly the article linked to in yet another thread on this topic -
 
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Yes Liliputian hallucinations- on bluelight they have a thread as well. It is very interesting and sounds like some actually trip and have mystical experiences. Although sounds like a bit much or on accident may be a bit more irritating/scary?
 
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