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Maybe it's not a hallucination at all. Maybe the mushroom is actually an anti-hallucinogen. It suppresses the hallucinations that normally prevent us from seeing the tiny people.
Lanmaoa asiatica
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I had that mower. It’s a good mower. It definitely could do the job.
"Biosynthetic gene mining of the L. asiatica genome found no close hits with any genes known in the production of mushroom psychoactive compounds," write the researchers in their published paper.
"This supports our hypothesis of the presence of a novel unidentified metabolite responsible for the unique hallucinogenic properties of L. asiatica."
Yeah. No known hallucinogens.
Well it does contain a psychedelic drug, just not one that we've identified yet.
You don't know that. Maybe it just disables the tiny people filter we normally have.
Regardless of the actual metabolite responsible, this does raise the question of whether, if any other species consume them and are susceptible, they see tiny versions of their own species?
I always wonder if the cows get high. On the right day it's like daisies in summer and they're just munching grass all day.
Now that's a question. How to test it?
Monkeys seem like a good place to start. Similar enough to us to see if it’s unique to humans, small enough to not start ripping someone’s face off if it goes badly.
Yeah but how do you get an experimental result from them?
Can't you just ask them? Like train them to show what they are seeing by pointing to one of multiple pictures.
I think you could watch pupil response, body temp, sweating, brain scans, etc and get a good idea.
I thought we were trying to see if the hallucinations of the tiny men changed to match your species' body shape
Awkward? Unexpected results are the building blocks of science!
We learned a new question to be answered.
Trash headline, but interesting information.
mushrooms are the aliens
you have been astropanspermatogenesis-ed
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