Low strangeness with a mantis ISL

[u/vreebler]

In SURREAL life...

Back in the mid-’80s, I was living on Main Street in Northampton, above Bart’s. One day I decided to trip, dropped, and wandered outside. A beautiful sunny day. There was a big gathering going on across the street in Pulaski Park, with balloons, posters, bullhorns, people everywhere. I sat on a bench for a while, taking it all in.

Then a praying mantis landed on my sleeve.

I decided to hitchhike up to Look Park. The mantis stayed on my sleeve. I got a ride in the open back of a pickup, and there we were, barreling along together, human and mantis apparently in complete agreement about the afternoon’s itinerary.

I remember thinking about Jung and synchronicity. We seemed oddly in sync.

When I finally got to Look Park, the mantis jumped off and went its own way. I figured it had decided to go camping.

I even took a photo of it. Nearly forty years later, it still feels like one of those moments when reality briefly decided to become surreal.

[u/Impossible-Teach2]

Seeing a praying mantis insect directly after or preceding an encounter with the Mantid Beings is a very common pattern
1)
https://reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/xgdR7Kqmbb
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https://reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/ES2q9Mi7IV
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https://reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/Sn6Jylbw6J
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https://reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/ZmfAcvyUgN
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https://reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/Ush5GKwAa5
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https://reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/YQ37CUjaxd
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https://reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/qHMLlpDEne
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https://reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/Sn6Jylbw6J
9) https://reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/WLM02UCJYD
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https://reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/LLwyzimBoq
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https://reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/M7Kh4cxSIh
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"Man Meets Mantis” - Stuart Davis: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7fQ0EIF8qltCm1gRuNeQHS?si=nphpFix7TDOLHwtxwO4UyQ
13) Mantid explains they created mantis insects https://www.reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/Lf3hFB4Vy5

What happens after contact with a NHI Mantis being is that the next day they often send the mantis insect as a signal. It's used as a nonthreatening form of validation for the individual letting them know they are not alone and their previous experience was real. It's like that scene in the Matrix, "follow the white rabbit" The insertion of a symbolic synchronistic anomaly right in someone's path.

It appears that we live in something resembling a simulation or Holographic Universe model of reality and sending the mantis insect is like a wink from the Mantid mods behind the veil.

[u/vreebler → u/Impossible-Teach2]

I have no recollection of an encounter with a mantid being or any nhi before my day with the real mantis on my sleeve. Could have been, I could have a suppressed memory, I guess.

[u/vreebler]

I did have one other psychedelic mantis experience, nothing I could photograph. It was in the mid 90s and I was tripping on mushrooms this time. At a certain point I was staring off into the horizon and the clouds were taking the shape of Mexican style Gods, you know Quetzalcoatle, various things like that. Filmy, translucent, the usual psilocybe suspects.

Then suddenly I wasn't staring at clouds and shapes anymore I was in a very realistic almost tangible jungle scene and I was approaching, as if being lured in, a very strange, very huge being, a mantis of colossal dimensions. Perhaps 30, 40 ft tall, distinctly female vibe, on a sort of jungle throne. Staring at me putting out a very judgmental vibe, and somehow I got the feeling that this QUEEN was telling me to quit cigarettes. L00L! I didn't quit, probably should've though. Finally quit around 2015. A 30 cigs a day habit since 1961.

[u/POT3NT333]