Yes, use scientific method or Sagan's baloney detection kit! Maybe a study that checks brainwaves to see what areas are active during the experiment and see what happens, measurable things in the tests and in the control group to study it.

Lilliputian hallucinations refer to the perception of small beings, often resembling tiny humans or animals, that appear to interact with the real world. These hallucinations can occur from this shroom, certain neurological disorders and alcohol withdrawal. Lilliputian.

Have you ever smoked salvia extract? That will alter reality

Man I just thought I can't imagine doing salvia alone. Then came to the realization you're basically doing salvia alone every single time.
With other halucinagynics you often have shared hallucinations or at least thoughts and experiences with the people you're partaking with but with salvia the minute you hit it you're on your own on a very personal journey.

we can cross that bridge when we come to it...

What exactly is destroyed by heat? Is there a compound in the mushroom that has been identified?

In the article they mention no specific substance has been isolated. Though, there are now 2 (or 3) varieties of mushroom each from a different location that provide similar hallucinations, so it might be easier to find the substance if it is shared by all the varieties and if there aren't a lot of other chemicals in common.

They do know it's not psilocybin or LSD (in these mushrooms).

That's exactly what the Lilliputians want you to think

Man it's always layers of reality peeling away or something like that with Salvia, I've heard that same sort of trip story many times. It's wild that so many have similar experiences with a hallucinogen.

I was at a party ~25 years ago and there were kittens running around. At some point, it became unclear to me which of the kittens were real. Some definitely were, but I was sometimes unsure if what was running around me was actual kitten or hallucinated kitten. That's probably the furthest gone I'd been and I still was able to understand that this was the situation. I also did a lot of stuff back then (and don't touch anything these days).

Yes, even further than that, there is no known hallucinogen in these mushrooms. Identifying the mechanism could open up some interesting possibilities.

Side note, the onset of the effects is 12-24 hours after the ingestion of the raw or undercooked mushrooms. This delayed onset has resulted in the hypothesis that the active compound is actually a prodrug that gets converted into something else that's psychoactive as we metabolize it.

I've been following this story for a while and find it fascinating. Can't wait for Hamilton Morris to do a video on it.

The trip to Lilliput sounds fun. The return trip through the ER, not so much.

That's what big Lilliputian wants you to think! Don't be gullible!

Uhh.... All the time? Even when I'm...?

Is it hallucination or ability?

is there like local stories about those tiny humans that could influence people mind?

Or again, it doesn't give hallucinations but just the ability to see the tiny people, that's the most logical conclusion!

Garak: Especially when you're...

I'll stop short of saying that everyone who describes DMT that way is a fool (drugs can affect people differently, and I've never taken it orally so maybe I'm missing something), but the "machine elf" stuff is just nonsense. It's just your brain making insane fractal patterns that fold in on themselves and shit. It's pretty cool, but there are no "entities" waiting for you.

Someone send the weird lanky dude with the vocal fry! (Me pretending that I don't know his name is Hamilton).

He's still alive right?

I mean, that never stopped the good folx on https://www.erowid.org/

Well lsd isn’t found in nature, but it is synthesized from ergot, a grain fungus.

named after the miniature inhabitants of "Gulliver's Travels," who stand just 6 inches tall

Ok, suuuuuper awkward thing to say here but... my penis is precisely one Lilliputian tall, which I understand to be just about average

Also, in Romanian, "puța" means penis

Are there other languages with a similar word for penis? Did Jonathan Swift know this? Was this deliberate? Are the Lilliputians really just "Lil' dicks" ?

EDIT: Has John Oliver already done this? I feel like John Oliver has already done this

Yeah, that's what I thought, but the article keeps referencing it like it would be something we'd be likely to find while sciencing those mushrooms.

Psychedelics are about set and setting. Tell people what they expect to see and they will see that.

IIRC, this one in particular causes the exact same effect no matter the cultural background of the subject, even when the subject is going in blind to the exact effects.

Hard to believe, yes. But very real. University of Utah published some research on this last year, I am fairly certain. Check it out. Really amazing

I have not and I'm planning to keep it that way

Yes, Jonas, we considered that.

...since this article was written? Uh, probably not.

Yeah, uh, not so much. I've heard of plenty of mushroom and acid trips that I've never experienced. Would be nice though, I'd love to know what the color Purple sounds like.

I don't recommend it unless you are really into/actively exploring psychedelics. My response was directed towards the comment from 11111one11111 specifically. They mentioned trails and lights and figured they may enjoy a few minutes of yarn people and claymation

Follow up from the other comment. That sounds like a good one! Intense as fuck for sure... I got "rolled up in a carpet" as the world unraveled one time.

I think it hits people differently. I had a acid trip once where it was an out of body experience. I had like daredevil vision at a pink floyd tribute concert. I could see the entire venue from any perspective from where i was standing. Sounds crazy but that was my experience.

Yeah that’s pretty much what I assumed too.