>>1235482the seeds can actually be eaten but just not a main diet /bulk of your cal replacement. and they need to be in the right growth phase to minimize risk. very similar to Glycoalkaloids from green potatoes. nothing happens until you eat a bucket a day.
chances are he ate the mushrooms, some later published photos show that he had very likely collected amanita muscaria.
>McCandless in his own 430-word journal, at No. 89 of 113 numbered entries, wrote, "Many Mushrooms. DREAM.'' DREAM is written in the largest, boldest letters of any word in the journal, and there are large, dark arrows connecting mushrooms to the word DREAM. "Many Mushrooms. DREAM.'' Four lines of gibberish follow the DREAM reference in the journal.amanita muscaria parallel to poisoning can cause hallucination and trips and malaise.