About this episode

This episode discusses the phenomenon of hallucinations involving small people, inspired by social media discussions about a psychoactive mushroom.

There's been some social media talk about a psychoactive mushroom that causes visions of small people, like the Lilliputians from Gulliver's Travels. This is a rare but real phenomenon with several causes. Dr. Sydnee talks about the documented experiences of seeing these little guys, where they comes from, and what is happening in the brain to cause this. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/ Native Women Lead: https://www.nativewomenlead.org/

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Sydnee McElroy

Topics covered

• psychoactive mushrooms
• hallucinations
• Lilliputians
• brain phenomena
• social media

Keywords

• psychoactive mushrooms
• hallucinations
• Lilliputians
• brain
• vision

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Native Women Lead, The Taxpayers

Books & works: Gulliver's Travels

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