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Apparently there is a mushroom that makes most people have the same hallucinations of "little people" or similar fantasy figures. Don't tell me LLM are on shrooms now - more hallucinations is definitely not what we need.

> Scientists call them “lilliputian hallucinations,” a rare phenomenon involving miniature human or fantasy figures

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918657

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Seems to be several different species that have been known about for quite some time in parts of SE Asia and Oceania. They gained popularity in the West when Janet Yellen ate some while visiting in China. But she ate them cooked as part of a meal. When cooked, they don't have hallucinogenic effects

>there is a mushroom

Ketamine == angels

DMT == little shadow elves

Salvia == devils

...or so I've heard.




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