r/MantisEncounters

Buckle up, because this is a long one!

Intro / mantis synchronicity / putting together the pieces

Since 2023, I’ve been going through a rapid spiritual awakening. For context, my psychic abilities such as clairaudience (clear hearing) and claircognizance (clear knowing) have come online since then. The mantis beings have been acting as guides/teachers since my journey started. I sense that at one point in time I helped them on their ascension journey in a past life/form and they are returning the favor for me in this life.

I want to clarify from the get-go that I have not had face-to-face contact with them. In hindsight, I believe that was avoided intentionally so I would not be afraid and I could slowly acclimate to their presence in my life. I had a mantis-related synchronicity (as many experiencers do) that helped me put the puzzle pieces together of who was interacting with me during certain experiences. So this is out of chronological order, but I want to share that first for context…

I was watching a Youtube clip about mantis beings and how they’ve also been on an awakening path as a species, similar to humans. The clip said that the mantis beings were perpetuating harm to others at one point in time, but they eventually learned that we are all connected and continuing to harm others would prevent them from ascending in consciousness. I have always found it confusing that some people describe the mantises as incredibly loving and others have had terrifying abduction-like experiences with them—so this explanation made a lot of sense to me. I sent the clip to my friend and immediately went to make my coffee for the day. My old mug with leftover iced coffee was in the fridge and I threw it out in the sink. There were some ice particles leftover at the bottom of the mug… and it looked exactly like a praying mantis with antennas and little arms! (I did take a picture but my phone died a few months ago, otherwise I’d post it). It took me some time to unravel everything, but I eventually understood that the mantis beings had been a part of many unusual experiences in my recent past.

Flashing lights & first communications

Early on in my spiritual awakening, I began seeing small and incredibly fast flashes of light in my peripheral vision. I noticed that it would often happen when I’d be reflecting on something important, or having an idea like “I need to meditate more” or “I should be more compassionate and loving towards my family”. The flashes were very fast—I was frequently startled by them and would shout and jump out of my seat.

Once I got past the “I’m crazy/just seeing things/my retinas are detaching” phase, I decided to communicate directly with these lights since they seemed conscious and intelligent. I said (in my head), “Hey, can you slow it down? You’re scaring the shit out of me.” Then I saw a much slower, smaller light move in a deliberate pattern in my peripheral vision. It was in my right eye and went down, then up, then my left eye and it went up then down — almost like it was scanning me. Then I heard in my head “See? Slow.” It was almost a playful energy, like they were being funny about it. I think the pattern was to confirm that this was not some random medical thing going on with my eyes, but a sentient being who was responding directly to me. As I tried to go to sleep that night, I keep seeing the slow lights moving around in my vision. I heard, “We’ve always been here, it’s just that you can see us now.” Eventually I had to tell them to stop flashing/making themselves visible to me so I could sleep and they complied.

Astral “abduction” and helping me heal from trauma

One night while sleeping, I began to feel my light or astral body being pulled out of my physical body, through my one of my legs. Not long before this experience, I read about someone’s astral abduction experience where they described a similar sensation. Naturally, I thought I was being abducted and felt very afraid. I could not move my body (astral or physical) or control what was happening. This lasted for a few seconds.

In an instant, I was no longer in my body and I saw what looked like a floating image of my sleeping body in my family’s house. I also no longer felt fear, I guess because I was no longer in my physical body. I saw my body float over to my mom’s sleeping body on her bed, like it was being superimposed on top of her. 

At that moment, I understood that I was “the same” as my mother. For context, my mom was abusive to me while growing up and there was a lot of emotional neglect, trauma, etc… I was attempting to heal from all this and forgive her, but I was struggling with it at the time. I believe the mantis beings were trying to show me to have compassion for her and not judge her so harshly, especially since we are all one and connected. I also understood in that moment that I may have done similarly harmful things to others in my past lives. This experience absolutely helped me along my healing journey with childhood trauma.

Contact between sleep & wake state / learning about the universe / personal help

Around the same time the peripheral lights began, I also began seeing strange things in  between sleeping and waking. For example, I would wake up in the middle of the night and repeatedly see something that looked like tree branches with lights above me in bed, like a canopy. On one occasion I saw a very complex 3D polygonal shape floating in my bedroom. I was definitely startled at first, but my fear slowly dissipated as these became regular occurrences. These holographic images would fade quickly after waking, but I had several seconds to take them in.

There were a series of occurrences where my mantis guides were trying to teach me about how the universe works (for lack of a better term.) One night I saw a dark red shape that looked like a molecule. I believe this particular red was used to signify that it was something like blood, like a life force energy such as qi.

Several nights later, I woke up and looked across my bed and I saw what looked like holographic red lines/veins/energy running through some shirts I had on hangers. The red energy spread to my shelf, then it spread to the plants on the shelf. My understanding is that this life force energy was running through everything and was something like the “building block of life” as per the red molecule I saw. I asked what the meaning of all this was and I heard, “The interconnectedness of all things.”

I also took this to mean that because this life force energy (some would call it Source, unconditional love, or God, depending on what you believe) is running through all things, including us — we are technically not separate from anything and everything. We are all connected by this energy. I also had a knowing that we can use this awareness to (co)create and shape our realities. 

Sometimes the images I was shown were personally helpful for me. When I was attempting to keep a secret from a friend, I woke up to a huge microphone in front of me and pointed towards my mouth. I heard telepathically, “Speak your truth.” I ended up opening up to my friend that day and it alleviated a lot of anxiety for me. Another time they showed me two plants of mine and said, “If you take care of your plants, your plants will take care of you.” Sadly I repotted those plants based on their advice and they both died, but it was a good idea!

Conclusion

Overall I feel like these mantis beings are very intent on helping me on my path. They don’t feel quite as warm and fuzzy as some of my other spirit guides, but their intentions are absolutely benevolent. Like many other experiencers have stated, I sense that they are extremely advanced in their consciousness. When the situation with the peripheral lights happened, there was a sense of being in contact with something “alien.” As in perhaps the mantises can’t properly understand what it’s like to be a fearful human, and that is why they needed me to intervene and ask them to slow down.

I’m still in contact with them, but the in-between sleep and waking images have tapered off. I still get occasional peripheral flashes when having important realizations. Mostly I sense them as a supportive presence that are always with me. They are eager to help me, especially if I’m doing things like energy work. I recently attended an energy activation to strengthen my auric field and I could feel them hovering nearby, just waiting to assist. When I asked for help with integration, I immediately saw them jump into action and saw mantis beings organizing blocks in my mind’s eye—probably more of a metaphor than a literal interpretation. 

Thank you for reading my story!