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That’s….. pointless?
It's not a magic mushroom without the magic. It's a magic mushroom where science can't explain where the magic comes from.
Plot twist - It's not a hallucinogen, it just lets you see the little people who are always there!
Oh, so like these bitchin' sunglasses I found the other day?
I don't know what I was expecting, but it definitely wasn't Char and Amuro ~~swordfighting~~ kissing.
truly a .gif from beyond the time
Dum dudun dan dadam~
Badada dam dada da da~
You belong to me~
haha, I knew this would be here somewhere..
That's the concept behind the researchers who are sending folks into DMT trips with complex math problems, trying to see if the entities people encounter will return a correct answer, thus establishing first contact.
Machine Elfs: "wtf? Do your own homework!"
.... They actually got that approved? Fuck me, I couldn't even get my "impact of common coffee blends on researcher productivity" project past the IRB.
Pikmin truthers rejoice
Not that it can't explain, but that the typical suspects aren't here. It could very well just be a new kind of chemical that's not being tested for, because they don't know it exists yet.
Hospital report that people eating it say the same thing. No known psychedelic compound has been found.
It could be anything. They report this happens with undercooked mushrooms, might as well be a protein.
Now, finding what it is that causes the effect will be very difficult...
You'd have to isolate all compounds in there which are not been previously tested and test them separately. Even then you may find nothing as the effect may be produced by a specific combination of compounds which have no activity when isolated.
Basically: we know it happens but have no idea why.
Can't let an ounce of whimsy go uncrushed, can you?
Is there no whimsy in there potentially being a novel compound we've not yet discovered that causes it?
Where's your excitement about verging into a new unknown?
Someone was just trying to be poetic and then you pulled a "well actually"