Inducing hallucinations to attract prey
Rock snails are giant slug like creatures living in the forest and underwater, they are not mobile in adulthood and their shell resembles a giant rock.
They grow up to being 8 meters tall and they are so heavy they can't move and let themselves become the environment by getting covered in grass and bushes or algae and corals.
They attract prey to eat them by causing hallucinations, very specific hallucinations.
A bird will see and hear another bird or storm of birds eating something on the ground or maybe calling them, a person might see a familiar or a friend and a dog might see it's owner or another dog friend or it's own puppies.
In a way the giant snail uses the visual and auditive memories of an animal to attract it and then eat it alive.
What substance or mechanism can be used to force hallucinations based on actual memories that attract you towards them and don't scare or terrorize you? I had many hallucinations as a kid and knowing they were hallucinations, I couldn't help but being terrified, the difference being that none of the hallucinations I ever had where related to real existing things. But I guess if I casually saw my cousin calling me while walking in a forest then "oh that guy wants to devour me alive" wouldn't be the first thing on my mind.
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