| ▲ | ChiperSoft a day ago |
| Every time I read about this I find myself asking what the little people are doing, and articles never answer it. |
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| ▲ | tsimionescu a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Obviously they're making an air chrysalis. |
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| ▲ | Tossrock a day ago | parent [-] | | A 1Q86 reference, on HN? I never thought I'd see the day. | | |
| ▲ | tsimionescu 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Every time this topic comes up and the comments are full of discussions about the little people I think of it. I do wonder if Murakami was inspired in any way by similar discussions. | |
| ▲ | pas a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | (for anyone else wondering, it's a book, 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, from 2009-2010) |
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| ▲ | functionmouse 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I've read: > marching in formation > frolicking > being merry |
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| ▲ | moi2388 a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It does? “ Patients describe colourful figures only a few centimetres tall, marching, dancing and climbing over the furniture.” |
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| ▲ | jdthedisciple a day ago | parent [-] | | Tbf I would also want to know more: Like to what end are they moving around? And what do they look like exactly? Like people you know from your life? Wearing ordinary outfits? Do they communicate amongst themselves, like little groups
of people? Do they gesticulate? And when you see them, can you like, focus on a particular one and follow him around? Etc etc... | | |
| ▲ | moi2388 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | The hallmark symptom of these mushrooms are Lilliputian hallucinations. This is a clinically defined psychiatric condition characterized by the perception of numerous tiny human, animal, or fantasy-like figures in one’s environment. They’re often very realistic, three dimensional figures said to be colorfully dressed, very mobile, and interacting with the physical world—like climbing up chairs or tables, or clinging to surfaces. |
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