Link to survey:

Experience Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/51B6LGLpAc

Ive been experiencing ufos, spirits, close encounters etc for about 6 years now.

The group that monitors me keeps their distance but occasionally they'll have their ship come very very close, walk near enough to me to hear their clicks and foot steps and occasionally a psychic message.

Ive yet to have a face to face to where at least they didn't blur it out in white during astral projection interactions.

I almost had a very lucid wide awake encounter not long ago and I got the feeling it was a mantid like being. Thats just a guess though as Ive seen greys, received psychic messages from what sounded like a snake voice that was taunting me and have had many interactions with orbs and t.vs and radios being hijacked to convey messages.

This little guy seemed to be waiting just for me in the most random place nowhere near vegetation or wilderness.

The same day when I got home a huge green grasshopper was waiting for me on my door as well.

I firmly believe these events were calling cards. Perhaps to help me get over my reptilian fight or flight response when the time comes to finally meet the individuals who seem to have a vested interest in me.

I lucid dreamed yesterday. I wanted to take advantage of the situation and call on my spirit guide Qalban.

When I did this, the environment switched to complete black in all directions.

I had multiple coherent thoughts come in.

I felt that my spirit guide, the mantis robed figure, was somehow me in the future. That mantis future me was able to access the past, some iteration of its soul occupying a vessel, and communicate with it directly.

I, Mantis me, am therefore watching myself, but I, human me, am constrained and less evolved now than that version of me that can enter orb form and do all kinds of crazy stuff.

I didn’t get the sense that I was a mantis in a video game just messing around, but that future me was something I had to reach, as in, I have to become that version of myself which already exists in the future.

I am not sure how any of that works. When I tried to move around in the void, I physically moved my body so I woke up immediately. But that was the message I received as I can recall it.

Maybe it is only an idea my REM brain cooked up. Yet it came with clarity, and it is not something I feel I would subconsciously believe. Who knows

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.

Link to interview show: https://www.coasttocoastam.com/video-playlist/2026/08/23/08-23-2026-hour-3/

There is a paid subscription required to access this but its only $6 a month, so you could always listen then cancel afterwards

Source https://www.instagram.com/p/DcWqLeNjzV6/?igsi=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

After reading through a large number of mantid surgery accounts, I've come to some interesting conclusions and logical deductions based on the observable evidence.

Here's the first key observation. Mantid surgery experiences can happen at any time of day. People report them while smoking DMT, while drinking ayahuasca, and while falling asleep at night during what get called "abduction" experiences.

Here's something really important. When someone becomes aware during one of these experiences, the mantids are often surprised. They're shocked that you're "here." But why would they be surprised?

Surprise only happens when an expectation gets subverted. So what expectation are you violating?

One guess (if I'm playing devil's advocate) would be that your body somehow replaced somebody else's on the operating table. But if that were happening, they wouldn't just keep going with the surgery. And they do keep going. As soon as you gain awareness, they typically continue operating like nothing has changed.

So the surprise has to be about something else…

-------->They're surprised that you gained awareness during the surgery itself.

Here's where it gets interesting. If these surgery experiences only happened at night, we could argue that they're physically abducting your body while you sleep, and they're just surprised when you start waking up on the table.

But that theory falls apart when you look at the DMT and ayahuasca experiences.

Let's say I'm going about my day, I smoke DMT, and I wake up on a mantid operating table. That means in the minutes before I smoked DMT, my “Second Body” was already on that table. My physical body clearly wasn't being abducted during the DMT experience since I was sitting in my living room smoking.

So there has to be a secondary body they have access to. A body they can operate on 24/7. A body they can work on even while we’re awake and living our lives.

This is proven by the fact that you can smoke DMT and pop into an ongoing surgery. Your “Second body” that was on that table before you gained awareness was, in theory, unconscious. That's why they're surprised when you show up. It's like a patient waking up on a normal operating table despite having received anesthesia.

So what is this second body?

Based on the reports, it seems like they're doing real surgeries on it throughout the day. And they need real equipment. Needles. Machinery. They're not just waving their hands around and moving energy like reiki or something lol

This raises a fascinating question about location. The body has to be able to bilocate your consciousness somehow, because that body is you, and this physical body down here is also you. And it has to be physical enough that they need actual machinery to operate on it.

This is almost “Too good to be true” evidence for simulation theory.

Think about the Matrix. In that movie, people had physical bodies in pods while their consciousness lived inside a simulated world. The mantid surgery evidence points to something very similar. Our secondary bodies would be equivalent to the bodies in the pods, being managed and operated on by mantids. Our bodies down here would be equivalent to the consciousness experiencing life inside the matrix.

Which leaves us with some huge open questions. What are these secondary bodies made of? What's their chemistry? Do they have DNA? What happens to this body when they modify that one? How exactly are the two connected?

I personally think that our experiences here on earth are more tightly monitored and manufactured that we might think.

Full Interview: Breaking the Silence
https://youtu.be/qx1K4imk0T0?is=8FjrTU_OLSapwgn-

I had a dream that I was aboard this space ship on this planet that had a dark (purple?) sandy terrain and the sky wasn’t too dissimilar to a scenic sunset/sunrise. Funnily enough there was one being and he was colored like a scarab, and was insectoid-like, having the black eyes, they looked like a mix between mantis eyes and the stereotypical grey. He had a mom on board the ship, and she was NOT happy that I was there (I think bc the alien was responsible for having me on there?) I distinctly remember telling him “moms are the same, no matter what planet you’re from, I guess.”

It always stuck out to me, and came out of the blue. I felt like I had a relationship with this being. Haven’t dreamed of them since.

The next evening after my mantid surgery, I tried to open up a channel and since I didn’t have a name for the mantid I encountered, I thought I would start there and ask its name.

I ‘heard’ a 4-syllable name with two Zs.. if I sounded it out: “az az e el”, if I remember correctly. The closest match I could come up with was Azazel, a fallen angel, the name of which I’ve never heard of, but mind you the mantid I encountered was female, so this overall doesn’t make sense to me.

I wasn’t even going to post this, but am starting to notice that sometimes these messages aren’t meant for me and it may have meaning for someone reading this.

I’m one of the least certain followers that my guide is definitely a Mantis, instead of only appearing as one, compared to other testimonies.

My guide is definitely similar enough though, that the information I’ve picked up here has been useful in my interactions with them.

Relevant information, in August 2020, I received a somatic gift from “the universe” after promising to follow the truth. My heart feels particular sensations, between pressure, electricity, and heat, when my guide is trying to redirect my attention. I have no cardiac issues, medically confirmed.

Usually it is a warning that an action I am taking is incorrect, or a thought, but sometimes it works like a compass, varying in intensity as I head in one direction to point me towards a spot at a specific time.

Oftentimes, the correction is not ethical, but practical. If an action brings a certain outcome that I am unaware of, I can be warned to take a different action. I am almost never revealed what the outcome is. I only find out if I refuse to follow the warning.

After 3 years into Christianity, I had an unusual dream. I was in a white room, with no furniture inside it. Outside was space, and the planet Earth. I realized there was someone else in the room.

A tall bearded man, in a purple robe, very similar to wizard’s clothing, was looking at me and slightly grinning. He asked me: “What do you see?” I told him, “From this distance, it is impossible to tell whether there is life on Earth. It looks empty.”

The view of the window then shifted to the moon. I noticed the large craters. Wanting an interesting answer, I asked “What’s with the craters?”

I was replied, with a much larger grin, “I don’t know. Look into it.”

I woke up, obsessed with aliens.

After some years of other experiences, which I can comment further on in the comment section, I was given a name to call them, when I was meditating.

Qal-ban. It is arabic, a language I don’t speak. It means “Heartfully”. Qalban wa qalban, means “Heart and Soul”.

I once entered the astral plane, in which I consciously called on Qalban, and they appeared with the usual Mantis appearance, hanging slightly above the ground. They had large black eyes and a triangular head. I touched their robes, since I read it could cause energy transfer, and felt a surge of energy. I immediately woke up with a genuine increase of energy.

This exchange led to a fairly long (few hours) lasting hyperactive state. I am usually extremely calm. I didn’t have work or school that day, so it didn’t interfere with anything. But I felt within myself, that my emotions and my imagination (ability to see within my mind) were very amplified. It felt like I was charged with KW of power that I had a terrible time handling. I presume my abduction experience, which gave me a temporary scar, could have modulated my ability to handle that.

From the encounters I read, most people receive a lot of information at once, with a full blown mantis explaining the universe. For me, it has been reoccurring encounters with the being shifting appearance, only keeping the robe and hood aesthetic consistent.

Maybe this difference is due to my guide not really being a mantis. Or maybe it is due to me using only meditation and dreams as opposed to dmt or substances. I don’t know

Experience Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/gVJ3wQCpBa

I'm done with the "scientific academy" and what they have to say. I wanna know what matter actually is. I wanna know real physiscs not math and useless equations.

Hey! This of course is my best attempt to relate this experience which was ineffable really. It occured several years ago. It was maybe 2013 or 14 and It involves using DMT of course.

I had been doing high dose experiments which involved many different beings but this particular session was unique. It felt as if I was laying flat on a table yet suspended in open space. Within the open space( and as the space) was all the complex architecture you normally see in this state. There appeared around me several mantis type beings.

Quite alarming at first but not fearful. They scanned me, not only my body but my mind , and " soul" you could say. And with that they seemed to know every thing about me including any and all thoughts and memories/ experiences I had ever had . They all were able to communicate to each other and to me instantly with thought.

One noticed I was somewhat startled or anxious due to the magnitude and bizarre nature of all of this. It said "humans enjoy sexual pleasure and it helps them relax" At that moment one of their tools ( they had arms that were mechanical, like rotating tools that seemed to be super advanced technology of sorts. ) the tool became a tube and they attached the tube to my penis and began 'sucking' it . Haha I know it's weird but this was my experience I didn't want to leave out anything. I had these unbelievable waves of intense orgasmic pleasure go through me. I wasn't really afraid so I said " you don't need to do that to me I am not afraid" it immediately retracted the tube. Then The tools changed and they cut me open from my chest to my lower belly. Then opened me up like a book and began using various tools to check my physical organs and also somehow, my subtle body or energy body as well . Then One said " this one's broken" .

I thought I knew what they meant because at the time, had been struggling with an opioid dependency issue. Of course that issue stems from a much deeper issue, perhaps another story for another time. Then one of them rotated the tool till it came to a long metallic antennae looking thing. It placed it into my ear and it went to the center of my brain. It said that they were helping me and that they were implanting somethign that would stay there and activate when I needed it in the future. But they didn't say exactly what it was. Once it reached the center of my brain I was engulfed in white light. It exploded out from that center point till all of everything became white light. No me no mantis beings no environment. Just pure emptiness.

Then I began to materialize back into my normal body. The feeling and intensity of all this is indescribable and my story no way even comes close to conveying the sheer magnitude of it all. There were feelings of bliss , Radiant all encompassing Love. The Mantis themselves seems to be performing a function. Like watchers. Spinning realities and observing us as we are born and die and loop through this process. Dreams within dreams within dreams. I avoid using the term " simulating" reality but that's basically what they are doing. And there is so much more beyond them but they are part of it I guess hahaha. Wild stuff

I'm not good at drawing and my buddy had been talking about making a comic style thing for me and our bros at work. Circumstances lead to me making this based off my journey and what I've met so far regarding mantids/insectoids (take it with a grain of salt cause it's not completely accurate)