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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick.

In today's episode, we're going to be covering a topic that has definitely made the rounds recently.

But hopefully digging into some new angles on it for you here, maybe discussing it in slightly different ways.

The basics of the story are this.

In Yunnan province in southwestern China,

this is located on the borders of Myanmar, Vietnam, and Laos, there grows a particular species

of bolit mushroom called Lanmawa Asiaica. This is a mushroom with plentiful culinary uses.

Like it's used, you can buy it at the market.

You can order it in restaurants.

But if you consume it undercooked, or certainly if it's consumed raw, but even undercooked,

its consumption can produce a particular type of hallucination, known as a Lilliputian hallucination,

and can do so with a fair degree of certainty. We'll get into the percentages as we go here,

but there's, again, a particular type of hallucination associated with these mushrooms. And it's quite startling.

Yeah, this is interesting because I think because we tend to assume that the content of hallucinations is idiosyncratic.

Like when a person takes a compound that makes them hallucinate, you can with some regularity predict

that they will hallucinate if they ingest it, but you can't usually say what the hallucination

is going to be of. Even, you know, it'll be different between different people, and it'll be

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