Those are primarily associated with DMT (the one time I tried it, I too had such an encounter and I didn't know it was a thing until years later).
I'm sure I'll be corrected on this but I think DMT and Psilocybin ultimately affect the same pathways so it's just more evidence that Machine Elves are real! (/s on the real part).
It's generally accepted that the stories of fairies tied to specific locations across the UK and Ireland is due to the presence of magic mushrooms growing relatively close by.
Almost all of the reports from people I know who have done ayahuasca have reported seeing "elves". It's not only common, they say it's not a "valid" trip unless you do, and even converse with them.
Though I don't know any reports of profound conversations.
In my youth I experimented with hallucinogenic drugs. Having shared hallucinations are very easy. It often just requires that someone give you an idea of a hallucination, or someone tells you what they see, and your brain will make you see it as well.
Maybe people know these things make you see small people, and then they are primed to do so.
>Current tests suggest it is not likely related to any other known psychedelic compound. For one, the trips it produces are unusually long, commonly lasting 12 to 24 hours, and in some cases even causing hospital stays of up to a week.
Plenty of common psychedelics have durations in excess of 12 hours. Some even in excess of 24 e.g. high doses of 2C-P. This may be a novel compound, but the duration is not necessarily an indicator.
Actually, Amanita Muscaria probably has the same alcaloid, as it induces too visions of small people watching you from the forest's bushes... Don't ask me how I know it.
Never heard of those, but many sites that sell THC/CBD products also sell amanita because they know it has desired effects and is mostly legal in the US.
It would be interesting if it turned out that they are not hallucinations. The tiny people are real but for several hundred or maybe thousands of years have been slipping something into our food or water that makes it so we don't perceive them. The chemical in this mushroom temporarily neutralizes that.
Let's say something had technology so far advanced we could only perceive it as magic - our electronic brains could easily be hacked from a distance.
All the advanced race would need to do is to prevent short/long term memory creation of certain things. Just set a rule to prevent caching of certain patterns, bob's your uncle they could live amongst us in peace.
But of course a hallucinogenic could circumvent those hacks but fundamentally altering memory generation and perception. So in theory the aliens could be really tiny little humanoids living amongst us and we're constantly adjusting to not crush them, but we just don't remember.
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[ 78.8 ms ] story [ 1690 ms ] threadThose are primarily associated with DMT (the one time I tried it, I too had such an encounter and I didn't know it was a thing until years later).
I'm sure I'll be corrected on this but I think DMT and Psilocybin ultimately affect the same pathways so it's just more evidence that Machine Elves are real! (/s on the real part).
In chemistry it often only takes a single atom difference to totally and radically change a molecule's properties.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393936
Now I'm kinda curious whether fairy tales are the result of these visions or the other way around. Probably both.
Though I don't know any reports of profound conversations.
Maybe people know these things make you see small people, and then they are primed to do so.
Plenty of common psychedelics have durations in excess of 12 hours. Some even in excess of 24 e.g. high doses of 2C-P. This may be a novel compound, but the duration is not necessarily an indicator.
Dennis McKenna, mentioned in the article, is the brother of the late Terence McKenna.
I was curious about “the mushroom making people” who were doing the “hallucinating [of] tiny humans”.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/
All the advanced race would need to do is to prevent short/long term memory creation of certain things. Just set a rule to prevent caching of certain patterns, bob's your uncle they could live amongst us in peace.
But of course a hallucinogenic could circumvent those hacks but fundamentally altering memory generation and perception. So in theory the aliens could be really tiny little humanoids living amongst us and we're constantly adjusting to not crush them, but we just don't remember.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226076639_Xiao_Ren_...