GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY THREAD WELCOME.TO JANUARY 1ST THROUGH JANUARY 31ST 2026

[nhmemorymaker]

This is strange. A mushroom that causes THE SAME hallucination no matter where it's grown/eaten.... seeing little people.

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 forest

One must be careful to cook it thoroughly, though, otherwise the hallucinations will set in.

In a 1991 paper, two researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences described cases of people in Yunnan Province who had eaten a certain mushroom and experienced "lilliputian hallucinations" – the psychiatric term for the perception of tiny human, animal or fantasy figures. It is so named after the small people who inhabit the fictional Lilliput Island in the novel Gulliver's Travels.

The patients saw these figures "moving about everywhere", the researchers wrote – usually, there were more than ten tiny beings on the scene. "They saw them on their clothes when they were dressing and saw them on their dishes when eating," the researchers added. The visions "were even more vivid when their eyes were closed".

people in China, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea do not seem to have a tradition of purposefully seeking out L. asiatica for its psychoactive effects, according to Domnauer's findings. "It was always just eaten for food," Domnauer says, with hallucinations being an unexpected side-effect.

There's another curious factor: 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."

'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans

Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

www.bbc.com

well.... how interesting....
i would think some folks would seek out these little experiences of little people, as well as those that had to live with the horrors

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Gulliver's Travels
and Little People!!!

This illustration always scared me as a child


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I preferred
"Children from Bullerbyn" by Astrid Lindgren!!!

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We had the Swedish Root Children books, and just loved them.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

As it should because they are apparently real! Think about it... hallucinating is one thing, but for different people, in different geographies, over different time frames... all with the same hallucination!??!

yep...that IS the interesting parts...

 

[nhmemorymaker]

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY THREAD JANUARY 30TH 2026​

January 30 — History’s Dark & Strange Corner​

1. Charles I of England is executed (1649)
   A reigning king was publicly beheaded for treason against his own people — unheard of in Europe at the time. His execution permanently altered ideas about monarchy and divine right.
2. Oliver Cromwell is executed… three years after his death (1661)
   His corpse was exhumed, hanged, beheaded, and displayed on a spike as posthumous revenge after the monarchy was restored. Yes, they punished a dead man.
3. First assassination attempt on a U.S. president (1835)
   Andrew Jackson survived two point-blank pistol misfires. He then beat the would-be assassin with his cane. Both guns misfiring was considered almost supernatural at the time.
4. Crown Prince Rudolf found dead in a murder-suicide pact (1889)
   The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire died at Mayerling with his teenage lover. The scandal destabilized Europe and indirectly helped set the stage for World War I.
5. Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
   Legally appointed. No coup. Within weeks, democracy collapsed. One of history’s most chilling examples of how fast things can go wrong.
6. Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated (1948)
   Shot at point-blank range during a prayer meeting by a Hindu nationalist who believed Gandhi was too tolerant. The world lost one of its most influential advocates of nonviolence.
7. Bloody Sunday (1972)
   British soldiers opened fire on civil-rights marchers in Northern Ireland, killing 14 unarmed civilians. It radicalized a generation and intensified decades of violence.
8. The Beatles perform their final live show — on a rooftop (1969)
   An unannounced concert atop Apple Corps in London shut down traffic. Police eventually stopped it. This bizarre pop-culture moment became legendary.
9. The SS Wilhelm Gustloff sinks (1945)
   The deadliest maritime disaster in history — over 9,000 people killed, mostly civilians and children — yet it remains largely unknown outside Europe.
10. Little Shop of Horrors original ending deemed “too dark” (1986)
    Early test audiences rejected the apocalyptic ending where humanity is eaten by alien plants. The studio forced a happier ending — and destroyed the original footage.

whoosh.... what a day in history this is....

1. Crown Prince Rudolf found dead in a murder-suicide pact (1889)
   The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire died at Mayerling with his teenage lover. The scandal destabilized Europe and indirectly helped set the stage for World War I.
2. Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
   Legally appointed. No coup. Within weeks, democracy collapsed. One of history’s most chilling examples of how fast things can go wrong.
3. Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated (1948)
   Shot at point-blank range during a prayer meeting by a Hindu nationalist who believed Gandhi was too tolerant. The world lost one of its most influential advocates of nonviolence.
4. Bloody Sunday (1972)
   British soldiers opened fire on civil-rights marchers in Northern Ireland, killing 14 unarmed civilians. It radicalized a generation and intensified decades of violence.

 

[Gemmie]

whoosh.... what a day in history this is....

1. Crown Prince Rudolf found dead in a murder-suicide pact (1889)
   The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire died at Mayerling with his teenage lover. The scandal destabilized Europe and indirectly helped set the stage for World War I.
2. Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
   Legally appointed. No coup. Within weeks, democracy collapsed. One of history’s most chilling examples of how fast things can go wrong.
3. Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated (1948)
   Shot at point-blank range during a prayer meeting by a Hindu nationalist who believed Gandhi was too tolerant. The world lost one of its most influential advocates of nonviolence.
4. Bloody Sunday (1972)
   British soldiers opened fire on civil-rights marchers in Northern Ireland, killing 14 unarmed civilians. It radicalized a generation and intensified decades of violence.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Not a day you want to share your birthday with.

 

[Megnut]

I worked in high technology for all my working career.....
So I had technology, computers pretty early on.
In the earlier 80s I was able to have a dial up dumb terminal at my home... was really great with two back to back pregnancies. (remote work at its earliest actually ha). Oh that horrible dial up tone--i can still remember. And it felt like a mirable being connected to our work servers. Not the internet, yet of course, but still "connected" 1!!

Imagine accessing WS with only 50 free AOL hours.

And here we are, meeting up in the precious grandbaby of chatrooms!