For people wondering:

It's called Lanmaoa asiatica

It's really hard to find outside of Asian food and mushroom markets.

The chemical compound that causes hallucinations is yet to be identified. It does not contain psilocybin.

Need source…. For a friend.

I'm pretty sure the show "Common Side Effects" is about these mushrooms

I've heard of these. It's why gnomes and elves are always on shroom products if you live somewhere where it's legal. It's also theorized that it was the inspiration for a lot of folk tales.

I had the same effect once on Lunesta. Didn't even know hallucinations were a potential side effect. So imagine my surprise when I was laying in bed  waiting for the meds to kick in, I started to see little tiny ice climber type people  scaling up my knees, as they were bent and created a giant "peak" for them to summit. They seemed aware of my presence as well because occasionally they would stop climbing and wave to me with great enthusiasm, then go back to climbing again. It was well before I dabbled in psychedelics and have never had a similar sort of hallucination in any of my other trips involving classic psychedelics (psilocybin, dmt, acid)

Wonder if there's any other cases of people hallucinating similarly on Lunesta.

What if the mushroom actually allows you to see them, piercing the magical veil?

The mushrooms are actually called xiao ren ren (小人人) mushrooms which means little people mushrooms

When this was posted last time i theorized it over stimulates the part of our brain that recognizes human bodies. We have all sorts of regions in our brains dedicated to recognizing specific shapes. Especially when experiences are consistent across people it points to similar brain regions being targeted. Simple but fascinating.

DMT is also shown to have similar effects although with more geometric, futuristic, and and shiny elves/gnomes..

Fairies wear boots, man, you gotta believe me

This describes exactly what I sometimes saw as a kid if my door was completely closed at night - "tiny, elflike people" climbing around the door frame. It would stop if it was left open just a bit. Pretty sure I wasn't on mushrooms, though.

Now this is a psychedelic we need to use for mental health treatment. If I could get some little dudes sitting on my shoulder through the day, I dont need a therapist

Two possible reasons:

1) the mushrooms have a very specific active ingredient that affects a certain localized area of the brain that has to do with both people and size,  

2) fairies are real and the shroom lift the veil.

I need a link to purchase some

So is it more more feasible that the neurochemical interaction is so specific in the human brain that it can conjure similar hallucinations across various people and cultures,

or,

are the fairies just fuckin real?

The Secret World of Arrietty

Hold me closer, tiny dancer.

you mean the underpants gnomes?

The creatures are there all the time, the mushrooms only removes your blindness to them.

Better than them being Brobdingnagian!