An image of densely packed mushrooms of various species on a forest floor. Three of the more prominent mushrooms are labeled.  A brown capped one is labeled"tastes like beef"; a red capped one is labeled "killed Bob", and a wrinkly white one is labeled "makes you see God for 2 weeks".

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[–] 20 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

Magic mushrooms are one thing, but there are actually a different kind of mushrooms that exclusively make people hallucinate tiny people running around everywhere. Theyre commonly eaten in Asia as a food, but if undercooked they make you see little people

There are a couple species around the world that have the same effect, so scientists are working to find the gene or other root cause that triggers us to hallucinate lilliputians

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    OMG I thought you were shitting us but it may be true: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people

    Now I have to find a way to cultivate these.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If you figure out a way to cultivate them, I'd be interested to know.

    It has me wondering what the little people look like. Are they based on the most prevalent ethnicity in your region? How are they dressed? Are they dressed???

    Do they just wander or do they try to do tasks for some sort?

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    I’m not Bob, so…

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    (Jokes aside, is this image AI generated? It's hard to tell but it seems like it might be so I don't want to reshare it...)

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Looks like an old-timey, not very good illustration. Top left: Parasol, Macrolepiota procera. Top right looks like some kind of bolete. Center are two kinds of Amanita. Middle right looks suspiciously like psylocibe

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    In the lower right quadrant over the bottom-most yellow mushrooms there seems to be a brown mushroom cap... growing out of another mushroom cap? Or hovering above a disconnected stem? Can a cap sort of grow from another cap? (Genuine question, I know nothing about mushrooms). My friend group would really love this one since they do all kinds of foraging and stuff but I'm not going to subject them to an AI image if I can help it, you know how it is

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    ...makes God taste like beef ...revived Bob ...made Bob a god for two weeks ...made beef taste like Bob

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    If cooked right, they all make you see God.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Take them all together

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Which one makes you see God forever again?

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