Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations

Posted by astronads 12/26/2025

Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations(nhmu.utah.edu)

https://archive.is/CwDtf

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candiddevmike 12/26/2025|

SWIM would like to know how to get paid as (instead of paying to be) "an expert who explores new mushrooms".

dekhn 12/26/2025||

Major in biology, do a grad program in medicinal chemistry, join a lab that already studies this.

(I know folks who read PiHKAL and thought "Hmm, this would be a nice ML training/prediction exercise")

neogodless 12/26/2025|||

Someone Who Isn't Me?

MrDrone 12/26/2025|||

Yes, this was a common phrase in early psychedelic and other drug experience sharing forums. Like a verbal talisman people believe kept them from incriminating themselves. I haven't thought about it in years. Delightful.

Aurornis 12/26/2025||||

In some online drug forums it was believed that if you used SWIM instead of I for all of your posts, the government was powerless to use any of the posts against you. You can still find threads on forums where everyone is saying SWIM did this and SWIM experienced that as if they have discovered a loophole to protect themselves from the law.

It always reminded me of those FTP servers in the early days of the internet that had big warning banners declaring the law enforcement was not allowed to connect.

culi 12/26/2025||

I feel like most people didn't actually believe it would somehow grant them legal protection but still used it kinda tongue-in-cheek. I think it's kinda cute and still use "my friend Swim..." in a joking way when talking about legally dubious escapades

mistersquid 12/26/2025||||

> Someone Who Isn't Me?

Funny, I saw “SWIM” and reasoned “Someone Who Is Me”, thinking “is not” would be represented as “Is Not” instead of the contraction. :)

awesome_dude 12/26/2025|||

Yeah - I was going to ask... for a friend

rolph 12/26/2025|||

some breadcrumbs for your SWIM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Morris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%27s_Pharmacopeia

airstrike 12/26/2025|||

I always feel like they should bring along an artist for the trip so we can get a visual depiction of what it was like

rolph 12/26/2025|||

Ride my Llama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMC3DjAFQEs

optimalsolver 12/26/2025|||

And a poet.

optimalsolver 12/26/2025||

Exploring new mushrooms is more likely to end in agonizing death than piercing the veil of reality.

attila-lendvai 12/27/2025||

no, statistucally not.

but yeah, a warning is warranted.

Ekaros 12/27/2025||

Reminds me of Lem's The Futurological Congress. Where drugs were speculated to be used in wars to make people imagine war machines. Much cheaper solution to make opponent imagine a bomber plane than actually to build enough of them...

anon84873628 12/27/2025|

Which reminds me of the psychoactive assault makers in Lina Nguyen's nanotech novels.

calebm 12/27/2025||

I feel like the natural test to do is: do experiments, and see if different people see the same little people doing the same things. That would move the observations from subjective to objective perspective.

Sargos 12/27/2025|

Testing the theory of whether psychedelics are just inside our heads or whether our consciousness travels somewhere objectively really is why this Tales From The Trip video is my favorite videos. Both men see the same blue woman which is very interesting! https://youtu.be/P_34oNWmNsc?si=_k2CG5b-TVuDaFvM

markus_zhang 12/26/2025||

I wish it were another dimension, or breaking through the Matrix. I never had the chance to experience such items but look forward to doing so.

bjt 12/27/2025||

Looks like the site is being hugged to death. Here's another instance of the article (I think).

https://attheu.utah.edu/science-technology/mushroom-causes-f...

anigbrowl 12/26/2025||

When mice are given chemical extracts of Lanmaoa asiatica, their behavior shifts noticeably compared to controls.

Doesn't say how, for some reason. I presume they are shocked to see tiny mice, but I would like to know what behaviors they exhibited.

Ccecil 12/26/2025|

Are they seeing tiny mice...or are they seeing the same 2cm tall "people"?

anthk 12/26/2025||

That reminds me of Mckenna/Peter Meyer and the fractal time.

https://www.fractal-timewave.com/articles.php

You can get a free-libre Unix timewave generator there:

https://github.com/kl4yfd/timewave_z3r0

It's a bit pseudo-science but some Chinese wrote an article on the I-Ching and patterns and it can have a bit of truth on it.

https://vixra.org/abs/2409.0093 [ Chinese, use whatever tool you like to translate it]

I said this because both Mckenna and Peter did writtings about DMT and the experiences under it:

https://scribe.rip/illumination/terence-mckenna-explores-the...

>Terence had symbolically left a single mushroom standing in the middle of the hut. As they sat there, for a fleeting moment Terence saw “not a mature mushroom but a planet, the earth, lustrous and alive, blue and tan and dazzling white.” Dennis saw the exact same image and concluded the experiment had been a success. Terence was not convinced.

I saw this in a dream too; but I remember descending uber fast from space to home, as if I were in a amusement ride, that one where you are dropped at high speeds from a fair height, but with far more vertigo. Also, I was in space in some kind of a capsule before the jump.

therobots927 12/27/2025|

McKenna also talked quite a bit about talking to little elves on DMT.

anthk 12/27/2025||

These could be leftovers from genetical, hereditary fears (and helpful feelings) against wild beasts since prehistoric times.

therobots927 12/27/2025||

Or it could be evidence that consciousness is more complicated and interconnected than we think. Regarding the time wave I actually purchased the software but haven’t managed to get it to run. I like a lot of mckennas ideas but I do get the sense that he went off the deep end towards the end. Maybe it had something to do with his brain cancer.

anthk 12/27/2025||

http://www.levity.com/eschaton/sheliak/shelform.pdf

Also:

Timewave zero for Unix:

https://github.com/kl4yfd/timewave_z3r0

The whole page has more info on the formalization:

http://www.levity.com/eschaton/sheliak/

amanaplanacanal 12/26/2025||

It appears there are several blue staining boletes in the same genus that grow in the US. Seems like a fertile area for study.

anonzzzies 12/27/2025||

Psilocybin always gives me fairytale like, animated and very vivid hallucinations. Would be curious how these differ.

czzprr 12/26/2025|

I have a friend who gave up taking regular magic mushrooms because he always hallucinated tiny Power Rangers.

culi 12/27/2025||

Giving up right when its getting good

fluoridation 12/27/2025||

Interesting. Did he find it boring, annoying, disturbing, or what?

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