Shrooms with a Little Color
Not every weird medical case is gross or upsetting. Sometimes, it’s just nifty. In May, researchers reported on a man who experienced a sudden and sustained restoration of color vision after taking psilocybin-containing mushrooms.
The 35-year-old man had mild deuteranomalia, a type of red-green blindness. He was also a regular user of magic mushrooms and other psychedelics. He noticed he could sometimes see colors better after these sessions. He then started to document his improvement, and eventually told his colleagues about it, who ran some of their own tests.
The man’s improvement on color blindness tests was modest, and though it seemed to last for several weeks to months, it eventually faded away once he stopped taking mushrooms. But the report authors say more research should be done to confirm the man’s experiences and better understand this phenomenon.
