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Posted on 01/26/2026 3:16:59 PM PST by BenLurkin
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
Every year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint. The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom: visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures – marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture.
The hospital treats hundreds of these cases every year. All share a common culprit: Lanmaoa asiatica, a type of mushroom that forms symbiotic relationships with pine trees in nearby forests and is a locally popular food, known for its savory, umami-packed flavor. In Yunnan, L. asiatica is sold in markets, it appears on restaurant menus and is served at home during peak mushroom season between June and August.
One must be careful to cook it thoroughly, though, otherwise the hallucinations will set in.
"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,'" says Colin Domnauer, a doctoral candidate in biology at the University of Utah and the Natural History Museum of Utah, who is studying L. asiatica. "It seems like very common knowledge in the culture there."
But outside of Yunnan and a couple of other places, the strange mushroom is largely an enigma.
"There were many accounts about the existence of this psychedelic [mushroom], and many people who looked for it, but they never found the species," says Giuliana Furci, a mycologist and the founder and executive director of the Fungi Foundation, a non-profit group dedicated to discovering, documenting and conserving fungi.
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Little people ping.
Sounds like mass hysteria.
In China they’d be considered one of the courses.
Kewl, me likes little people, along with their pots o’ gold. 🤣👍
From the article: ‘”other known psychedelic compounds also usually produce idiosyncratic trips that vary not only from person to person but also from one experience to the next within the same individual. With L. asiatica, though, “the perception of little people is very reliably and repeatedly reported”, Domnauer says. “I don’t know of anything else that produces such consistent hallucinations.”’
Plot twist: The tiny people are real, and these ‘shroom unlock the ability to see them.
(just kidding... I hope)
So that means our total solar system could be like 1 tiny atom on the fingernail...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4eS2SceeFk
Underpants gnomes?
So if you’re in Yunnan province and you order the mushroom soup, does the waiter ask if you want it with or without little people?
Descendants of the Tuatha De Danaans going about their daily routine.
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He's a kindergarten teacher.
China’s newest export.
Before you know it, they’ll be wearing tie-dye clothing and following the Grateful Dead around
Do they look like itty-bitty Princes, like from Nigeria?
Each one wearing a jeweled crown, a leopard cape and carrying a
scepter? See your Doctor, not your Dietitian!
Yes they do look like itty bitty Nigerian princess and when they leave your bank count is reduced.
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