Q&A: Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
People in communities thousands of miles apart have described the same strange experience after eating a mysterious mushroom: vivid visions of tiny humans moving through and interacting with the physical world around them. Known as Lilliputian hallucinations - a reference to the 6-inch-tall inhabitants of "Gulliver's Travels" - the phenomenon has long been thought to stem from cultural influences rather than biology.
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