Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified

Re:Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified by ulrikrasmussen on Thursday August 13, 2026 @03:53AM (#49282927)

I think this is so fascinating because the hallucinations sound unlike anything else produced by psychedelics and other psychoactive substances, so I really look forward to learning what the mechanism is.

From the stories I've read it also doesn't sound people are experiencing outright delirium although the experience can probably be pretty stressful if you don't know what is happening.

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Re:Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified by farfatched on Thursday August 13, 2026 @05:12AM (#49283409)

Do we understand the mechanism behind any hallucinations?

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Re:Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified by ulrikrasmussen on Thursday August 13, 2026 @06:02AM (#49283744)

Maybe not, I don't know. But at least we understand the pharmacology of many of them, which I guess is what I actually meant.

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Re:Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified by OGWhales on Thursday August 13, 2026 @10:42AM (#49286734)

I'm not sure how well proven it is, but the theory I saw for the common "sacred geometry" that people see while on psychedelics is that the brain normally is quite good at filtering out "noise" and the psychedelics limit this filtering. So, sacred geometry could be a type of noise produced by our biological hardware that the brain normally filters out as unnecessary. Other things besides psychedelics can cause these same patterns to be observed too, from what I understand.

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