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

[killarney rose]

I vividly remember the day the Challenger exploded. It was a clear, cold day here in SE AL. That vapor plume was visible here.

 

[Dotta]

Hi guys!!!

In Poland we have now STUDNIÓWKA season

It means Prom Parties for High School students

It is the last opportunity for a moment of carefreeness before intensive preparations for Finishing Exams.

100-day rule:
Traditionally, the prom takes place approximately 100 days before the high school leaving exam.

Studniówka (100 days)
ALWAYS starts with
POLONEZ
Traditional Polish Dance

Students are dancing
and teachers & parents are
bursting with pride haha!!!

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Zobaczcie poloneza w wykonaniu maturzystów 33 LO Łódź 😍 Dla nas bomba i jesteśmy pewni, że wyniki matur będą tak samo dobre 💪

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This Studniówka Polonez is older
and I have already sent it to Music Thread
BUT it is my FAVOURITE

 

[Gemmie]

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.

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