Hallucinating man who mixed alcohol with wild psychoactive fungi is saved from potentially deadly plunge by quick-thinking neighbour
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenFran Luin BeijingPublished: 2:00pm, 15 Jun 2026A Chinese man climbed out of his 27th-floor flat after eating self-cooked jianshouqing mushrooms at home and having hallucinations.
The man, surnamed Xue, from southwestern China’s Yunnan province, said he believed his family was inviting him to “train himself to cross the tribulation and attain immortality”, a practice often seen in Chinese fantasy novels.
Xue said he unconsciously clambered out of the window of his flat and climbed down a water pipe, scratching his belly as he did so.
Luckily, his friend on the 26th floor heard him in time and dragged him inside.
Xue was sent to a nearby hospital, where he failed to recover consciousness and fell into a coma.
