It takes a dozen or so hours for the mushroom to kick in. Then, the hallucinations are unlike any others known to science.
On this trip, there are none of the heightened colors, breathing or pulsing objects, nor geometrical patterns typically reported by users of psychedelic substances. In fact, the hundreds of people who enter clinics in China’s Yunnan province during each year’s summer mushroom season tend to report their vision as being clear and largely unaltered.
Well, aside from one major exception: nearly all users see visions of hundreds to thousands of highly-rendered miniature people, dressed in bright colors like elves, gnomes, clowns or other fairy-like figures. The hallucinated sprites wriggle under doors, dive off spoons into soup bowls and make lewd and mischievous gestures, among other strange behaviors.
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