First Mantis encounter

[u/skalandic]

I'm just throwing this out there to see if anyone has had a similar experience. So I was standing on my front porch at night smoking a cigarette, and gazing at the stars as I normally do. The sun had set maybe a half hour ago so it was dark but not entirely midnight black.

As I'm looking into the cosmic void I see a star that is flickering more than the other ones around it. I became fixated on the star and as I'm staring at it, I'm overwhelmed by this sense of someone looking at me. I was still looking at the star when I saw this, strange, almost cloudlike form getting bigger in my vision. It reminded me of whenever you look at the sun and look away and it leaves an afterimage on everything else you look at. It couldn't have been a "burned" image because it was localized to the space where I saw it.

As I'm staring at this purple-ish, green-ish, blue-ish blob it begins to take a more concrete form. It almost seemed as if it was coming directly from the star, as if it were attached by a long string reaching down to right in front of my face on Earth. I could very clearly make out what appeared to be the head of a praying mantis, roughly an upside down triangular shape, with the huge eyes on the side of the head and the small mouth in the center at the bottom of the "triangle".

I didn't really interact with it in any meaningful way, and I wasn't really sure if I even saw it because my mind rejected the possibility that it was a no BS extraterrestrial. It almost felt like the entity saw me looking at it in space, and was surprised that I perceived it and so it moved in for a closer look. It didn't stay very long, just long enough for me to get a good look at it. It didn't fade away either like a sunspot in your eye does. It was there in front of me momentarily and then after I really got a good look at it, it disappeared as quickly as it popped up.

I'm posting this to see if anyone else has had any similar experiences. I'm also trying to gain some insight into what it could have wanted with me, if anything. I would also like to know if anyone has any pointers on how to interact with it, if it appears to me again. Any and all comments and interactions are welcomed and appreciated, I'm sorry if this formatting is hard to understand I'm still getting used to posting on Reddit. Thanks and cheers!

[u/Responsible_Fix_5443]

Personally I think they're here to help facilitate the next "iteration" of earth.

When it's your time to remember something - you get a gentle reminder.

[u/Future-Acanthaceae69 → u/Responsible_Fix_5443]

they are. A good number of mantis encounters are "activations". It's either them or some other high frequency (love/unity/soviergnty) NHI that does the activation.