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    7 hours ago

    I took my friends to go see trees full of fireflies while camping and doing mushrooms, mind blowing.

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    24 hours ago

    Sat with a couple friends, heavily under the influence of mushrooms, and watched fireflies across a newly planted tree farm field.

    I’m pretty sure the three of us each took our own universal truth from that night but in that moment I was pretty sure I witnessed the fireflies riding some sort of universal wave, like gravity and they would jump from wave to wave when they blinked.

    Anyways. I miss being young.

    Or shrooms. Maybe I just miss those…

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      23 hours ago

      Shrooms are great, even before the studies came out saying they could treat depression etc for years after taking I knew.

      One good day on shrooms and 6 months of better life after

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    That’s a long exposure, but there really can be that many of them. I was out on a moonless night in upstate New York. An amazing number of stars was visible (I could even see the Milky Way), I was surrounded by fireflies and glowworms, and there were no other sources of light once I turned my flashlight off. It was so dark that I couldn’t see my own feet, just lights in all directions.

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    During COVID when nobody able to spray for mosquitoes there was a really cool resurgence - even in the suburbs. Came home from a bicycle ride late one evening, and swear every tree had Christmas lights strung up, they were chilling out and just glimmering in every branch.

    I pushed the bike home that night and watched the show in the trees, a lovely coda to the day

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    18 hours ago

    I had an experience like this camping out in the foothills of the Catskills. One of my favorite camping trips.

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    23 hours ago

    I have a lot in my backyard, it’s a treat to see at night. I have been searching online on what plants they like so I could build a firefly refuge and encourage their breeding but I can’t find any info.

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    I moved away from a state that has them. They’re so beautiful to watch over a big open field. Like stars that fill the ground to complete the sky.

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        When we were kids we’d catch them in jars sometimes and if you smelled the jar after it def had a scent. If the population is dense enough you can just smell it in the air.

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    I remember when Florida had them in large number, not like that but still maybe one every 10 feet or so on the heaviest night I’ve seen. It was pretty. Now I get excited if I see any at all. If I see 3 in the same night I am ecstatic.