People in communities thousands of miles apart have described the same strange experience after eating a mysterious mushroom: vivid visions of tiny humans moving through and interacting with the physical world around them. Known as Lilliputian hallucinations—a reference to the 6-inch-tall inhabitants of "Gulliver's Travels"—the phenomenon has long been thought to stem from cultural influences rather than biology.
    • terranoid@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      …and so many beings that tell people “what, you’re not supposed to be here yet”

      I also found out recently that the thing people say about dmt flooding your brain at death and being responsible for hallucinations has like zero scientific evidence… It’s just a chemical that all life usually has in it, and they assume it could happen at death. But they’ve measured the blood of mice while dying and saw no evidence of it. It’s just assumed “they see weird shit so they must be on drugs”, completely unproved hypothesis that’s thrown around like fact.