""At a mushroom hot pot restaurant there, the server set a timer for 15 minutes and warned us, 'Don't eat it until the timer goes off or you might see little people,'" University of Utah doctoral candidate in biology Colin Domnauer told the broadcaster."
""It seems like very common knowledge in the culture there," he added."
""One elder tribesman in Papua New Guinea describes this effect, explaining how 'he saw tiny people with mushrooms around their faces. They were teasing him, and he was trying to chase them away,' Donmauer wrote in a November piece for the University of Utah.""
""When I lifted the tablecloth higher, the heads came off and stuck to the bottom of the cloth and the bodies kept marching in place... I did this many times, at two-minute intervals, and each time they were there, marching and grinning... I measured them, too... they were [o""
Lanmaoa asiatica is a mushroom valued for its umami flavor that can produce a distinctive visual hallucination of countless tiny, elf-like people when eaten improperly. Cases in Yunnan province include hundreds of patients per year experiencing persistent visions that can begin 12–24 hours after ingestion and last up to three days. These episodes often require hospitalization and are more prolonged and severe than typical psilocybin trips. Local culinary practices sometimes warn diners about timing or preparation to avoid the effect. Similar tiny-person hallucination reports exist in other cultures, linking the phenomenon to this species of fungus.
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