Meanwhile, on the forest floor…

Q&A: Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified

People who eat a particular mushroom report seeing tiny humans going about their business in the room around them — and they report it in communities thousands of miles apart with no contact between them. The phenomenon, named Lilliputian hallucination after Gulliver's Travels, was long chalked up to shared folklore. Researchers have now pinned the visions to a specific fungus, which makes them chemistry rather than culture.