| ▲ | astronads 9 hours ago |
| It is interesting how the hallucinations consistently represent tiny people/elves to the mushroom consumer, even across geography/culture. I wonder what the brain is doing… |
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| ▲ | nospice 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Could be that the mushroom just temporarily interferes with the substances the elves put in our water supply to keep us in the dark? |
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| ▲ | eykanal 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is some real antimemetics stuff here :) (https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub if you're not familiar) | | |
| ▲ | Tempatio 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah the mushrooms are obviously an amnestic that lets you see the elves which are usually antimimetically cloaked. |
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| ▲ | joe8756438 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | exactly, the real question is what the elves are doing while they’re unseen. | | |
| ▲ | ok_dad 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | They keep the universe running. | |
| ▲ | amarant 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I can answer the what, that parts easy! The real question is WHY they keep stealing my underwear and left-foot socks? | |
| ▲ | johnea 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | We should've asked Terence McKenna... It could be a subspecies of the "machine elves"... | |
| ▲ | bell-cot 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Making toys, caring for reindeer, sleight maintenance, ... And spook work for His Jolliness' Secret Service, to keep their Naughty and Nice databases current. |
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| ▲ | egypturnash 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | s/elves/government |
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| ▲ | pea 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think it makes sense given the following: - Your brain has been trained extensively to recognize faces / people. Even very small babies can do this. - Your brain processes a large amount of mostly noise, and sometimes mislabels noise as objects, which trends towards face-like things (see: seeing faces in clouds, people in shadows etc.) Various classes of substances make this effect more noticeable (even stimulants, including caffeine) - The jump from that to 'elves' is largely just cultures have some form of small magical person. |
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| ▲ | treetalker 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Would be interesting if the chemical mechanism is related or similar to the DMT one that creates the "machine elves" experience. |
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| ▲ | astronads 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, the machine elves rabbit hole is interesting for sure. I hope a lot more rigorous science delves into both mushrooms and DMT | | |
| ▲ | andy_ppp 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Someone has to support consciousness and reality I guess, thanks to the elves I say… |
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| ▲ | akka47 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Since we're in the topic of elves and common hallucinations, I want to share these Salvia trip replicas that some say are extremely accurate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2IRKuS3sSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65XfIpJdlEY |
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| ▲ | ceroxylon 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It gets the visuals accurate, but the experience includes a lot of physical sensation that is very difficult to convey, e.g. the 'wind' that pushes you back and the discomfort of going into a chaotic dissociated state. You see those things but it feels very 'real'. | |
| ▲ | OldSchool 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Wow, looks terrifying! I can only speak for medically-administered intravenous Ketamine, but I would describe it as like relatively effortlessly floating inside of the non-physical space inside of you and meeting yourself in metaphor, all the while completely aware. The biggest risk seemed to be temporarily becoming a relatively inanimate part of the infrastructure there, and even that was a sort of pleasant and satisfying state. | |
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| ▲ | tokai 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Lilliputian hallucinations are also common in mental illnesses with hallucinations. Definitely some kind of physical foundation for it in the human brain. |
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| ▲ | newman8r 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| reminds me of trip reports from people trying Salvia Divinorum - there's even a name for these tiny people, 'Smelves' |
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| ▲ | bilsbie 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Occam’s razor would say they’re real. |
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| ▲ | flir 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| These mushrooms are small, these elves are far away. |
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