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Natural hallucinogens may have evolved as ecological tools, not chemical accidents

Natural hallucinogens, such as psilocybin, mescaline, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and related compounds, have generally received attention for their effects on human perception, e...

Scientists Identify Mushroom That Makes You Hallucinate ‘Tiny People’

Mycologists have identified a species of mushroom that induces hallucinations of dozens and sometimes hundreds of tiny people. The fungi is native to China and the Philippines.

This mushroom is behind ‘tiny people’ hallucinations

A researcher speaks about the Lilliputian mushroom, the decades-long mystery behind it, and the implications of a new hallucinogenic compound.

Mushroom Mystery: The Fungus That Makes People See Tiny Humans

A mushroom sold in markets and served in restaurants in Southwest China has an unusual warning attached to it: cook it thoroughly, or you may start seeing tiny people. For decades,...

An edible mushroom causes visions of tiny people. Nobody knows why

Remember that Chinese mushroom that can cause you to hallucinate tiny people? The best guess for this bizarre effect is that the mushrooms contain some kind of psychoactive substan...

Hallucinations

How psilocybin alters consciousness to create a sense of ‘oneness’

Psychedelics can create a new “hidden order” in brain activity that could explain how these drugs alter our sense of self

The wild, gripping story of the psychedelic secreted by desert toads

Kimon de Greef's The Ego Trip chronicles the rise of a potent psychedelic drug, from the toads that secrete it to the man who claimed it has amazing powers. Olivia Goldhill discove...

The Quest to Understand the Forgotten Psychedelic

August 13, 2026 | Source: Nautilus | by Kristen French Mescaline, derived from cacti like peyote in North America and San Pedro in South America, is the drug that gave psychedelic...

The world's only psychedelic animal lives in a cartel zone

The Sonoran Desert toad is the only animal known to make a psychedelic. Its glands secrete 5-MeO-DMT, the compound users call the God molecule. The toad exists only in Sonora, Mexi...

One of The Oldest Psychedelics Just Had Its Brain Effects Mapped For The First Time

"A plausible mechanism for altered bodily awareness and perception."ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story,...

Aliens Can Talk To Us Through Psychedelics, Scientists Claim

For over half a century, people taking the psychedelic drug DMT have reported meeting alien beings. Now a scientist says these aliens might be real, and that he has the mathematics...

How a crackhead-turned-shaman got the rich and famous hooked on smoking the psychedelic venom of a Mexican desert toad

The so-called God Molecule has an egomaniacal prophet.