These mushrooms make people see mini-humans 🍄⁣ - BBC World Service #shorts

These mushrooms make people see mini-humans.🍄⁣ Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM ⁣ "Lilliputian hallucinations" are named after the fictional little people from Lilliput in the 1726 novel Gulliver’s Travels.⁣ ⁣ “These are perceptions of tiny, often few centimetre-tall human, or fantasy like figures," says Colin Domnauer @eating_gaia from the University of Utah.⁣ ⁣ This unintentional psychoactive effect occurs when a specific species of mushroom, found in China, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea, is eaten undercooked.⁣ ---------------- This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. If you like what we do, you can also find us here: Instagram 👉🏽 https://www.instagram.com/bbcworldservice Twitter 👉🏽 https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice Facebook 👉🏽 https://facebook.com/bbcworldservice BBC World Service website 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Thanks for watching and subscribing! #BBCWorldService #WorldService #mushroom #hallucination #lilliput #philippines #papuanewguinea #china