This mushroom is behind 'tiny people' hallucinations

This mushroom is behind 'tiny people' hallucinations

Scientists have identified the mushroom behind “tiny people” hallucinations. People in communities thousands of miles apart have described the same strange experience after eating a mysterious mushroom: vivid visions of tiny humans moving through and interacting with the physical world around them. Known as Lilliputian hallucinations—a reference to the 6-inch-tall inhabitants of Gulliver’s Travels—the phenomenon has long been thought to stem fro…