I read an interesting piece in the BBC app on my iPhone this afternoon. It used to be free, and I’m linking to it here in case any readers are subscribers or want to subscribe ($49 for the first year). I try to balance my news sources by reading the BBC and American and Swedish news on my phone over my morning coffee.
In my first year of blogging, 2008, I wrote about a patient I had with Charles Bonnet syndrome, and in 2018 I wrote another piece on the same topic. The syndrome occurs in people who are blind or severely visually impaired, and involves seeing elf like Small, childlike, figures, often playing outside in the yard. The BBC article describes very similar and consistent reports by people who consume certain presumably psychedelic mushrooms in various parts of the world.
Very thought provoking that such different circumstances can produce very similar syndromes across countries and cultures.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people
Wordpress links to my articles:
https://acountrydoctorwrites.blog/2008/09/24/visions-of-little-people/
https://acountrydoctorwrites.blog/2018/11/22/the-elfins-return-2/
Substack links:
P.S. Long after I first published The Elfins Return, I realized that elfin is an adjective and not actually a noun. Oh well, English is my second language.
So interesting. Thank you.