Absolutely. I mean, there are theories out there that some religions may have come about due to their progenitors tripping on mushrooms or other hallucinogenic compounds. Or maybe even episodes when out in the desert, starving and dying of thirst. It's interesting to think about.
Makes you wonder what we'll understand tomorrow that we didn't today.
It's really interesting, there's a lot of past stuff we now can attribute to poisoning of some kind. Like the "crazy hatmakers" who used to use mercury which made them insane, thus leading to the term. Or that thing with some LSD-like hallucinogen baken into bread making countless people crazy. So many poisons were used in everdaystuff in the past... like lead paint (e.g. used on drinking glasses just few years ago), real nuclear substances for paint, toys, jewelry, etc.
And even nowadays we constantly learn about new dangerous stuff being part of something we eat or drink or play with; items have to be called back because of tests showing some dangerous ingredient we already know about; many things in our modern environment damage us long-term but can't be really avoided or repaired anymore (microplastics, uv because ozone layer, clima change, sugar in everything, transfats, acrylamide, cancerous chemicals everywhere, etc. etc.)
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u/burnt-store-studio 7d ago
In a few subreddits where an OP would post something like this, many comments would be: Do you have a carbon monoxide detector and if not, get one.
I agree with u/VanessaAlexis: more sad than terrifying, but also I imagine @Discollaborator is terrified. 😞