I'm curious on the latter part of my experience if anyone has experienced this entity.

It started when I took 6.5g of Blue Teacher mushrooms. The come-up was extremely intense. Almost immediately, I started seeing overwhelming patterns and geometric shapes layered over everything around me. The body sensation was incredibly strong too. so strong that I found myself squirming on the ground as the experience took over.

At one point, it felt like the empty space around me wasn’t actually empty. The air itself seemed to be made up of interconnected octagonal shapes, all linked together in a living three-dimensional structure. When I moved my body through the space, the geometry reacted to it, almost like I was passing through some invisible energetic fabric. The shapes weren’t static, they felt alive.

Before the entity encounters began, I had another overwhelming realization: all material matter appeared to be made from a single continuous line. Everything around me; my desk, the walls, my hands, seemed to be formed from this endless flowing thread that folded into different shapes to create physical reality. I couldn’t tell where the line began or ended. It felt like all matter was part of one connected structure.

Eventually, I encountered what I can only describe as a mantis-like entity. Reaching this moment felt significant, almost like I had finally made it through the difficult part of the trip and had “earned” entry into another space or room.

The mantis entity didn’t speak or move much. It simply stared at me for what felt like a long time. Strangely, the experience wasn’t threatening at all. Its presence felt calm, observant, and almost parental, like a parent admiring their child. Even though it never verbally communicated, I somehow understood its intent emotionally. I vaguely remember it wearing some kind of dark grey or black robe or garb, though the details are blurry now. Eventually, it faded as my attention shifted elsewhere.

After that, I entered what felt like another room entirely, but this one felt cozy, familiar, and strangely comforting. There I encountered another entity that felt completely different from the mantis. This being felt like someone I had known forever, like an old friend.

It had a bulbous head, grey skin, large black eyes, and no visible mouth. It resembled the stereotypical “grey alien,” but emotionally it didn’t feel alien at all. It felt warm, playful, and deeply familiar. It was wearing a hoodie with no pants, which somehow made the whole experience feel even more absurd and personal.

The entity joked around with me, busted my balls, and made me feel incredibly comfortable and understood. At one point, I asked its name, and immediately the answer came back:

“Danny.”

Over time, Danny showed me visuals and ideas that felt deeply meaningful in the moment, though most of them became impossible to remember or explain afterward. My friend was nearby and sober, but I couldn’t properly communicate what I was experiencing because it felt beyond language.

The clearest message Danny gave me was simple:

“Stop trying to figure it out and just experience life.”

I know the Mantis encounter is actually pretty common, but has anyone else encountered a being that it felt like they knew you and were possibly an extension *of* you?

Hi All,

I'm leading a study investigating people's encounters with mantis entities in altered states of consciousness. This is a research collaboration with Prof. David Luke (University of Greenwich) and Samantha Treasure (an OBE book author, anthropologist and independent researcher). We have not received any funding support to undertake the study, and are working on it in our own free time, motivated purely by our shared interest in the subject. This is not a data mining exercise, and is purely for research purposes, pertaining solely to this particular topic.

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I dont post my experiences online very much but I think its worth to tell.

So I've always had relentless nightmares as a kid and always had to do with ufos, aliens, etc. They were always weird, much more than normal nightmares, sometimes I've had aliens in my dreams but they were always hidden or had on a different form, either to not scare me or my brain trying to block it out, I do not know.

So when I was around 6-8 ish I was at my childhood homes driveway and the neighbors house across the street from us had a really long driveway and the house was on the right at the end hidden behind trees (me and my brother used to play there in the driveway, was like a personal street). So in my dream I for some reason go over there by myself, and as im standing there I feel like someone is next to me on my right holding my hand and walking with me down this driveway. This being is talking to me, not trying to introduce itself but almost picking right back up on a old conversation, I am just confused trying to know who this was so I don't really pay attention to it, instead im more curious on trying to see this, what I felt like was male, person's face.

So I slowly look up this beings body and notice they have a robe on, its almost purple and shiny like silk, (i say almost because it wasn't just one color it was kinda animated with a kaleidoscope effect of many colors. The robe was so fascinating so I looked for awhile it felt like, the best way I can describe it was like dr strange's mirror dimension but with colors not known to humans.

So as I pan up to slowly reach its face I notice how tall it was, I was a kid sure but it felt like 7-8 feet tall.

I look ahead of him to peek his face and instantly he stops his conversation im ignoring, and I hear a much more commanding, clear voice "dont look at my face" don't know if i heard it or it was in my head, but I quickly looked forward, it was almost like a parent telling a child dont touch the stove its hot.

We keep walking and go back to our conversation but they are more so talking and im just listening. He talks about mathematics, philosophy, metaphysical stuff a kid can't even begin to understand. So I don't remember much.

We get to the house at the end of the driveway and we stand there looking at it and in an instant it begins to change, the house begins to have layers of woods and shapes overlap on each other and inward on itself. Again just like the dr strange mirror dimensions in the marvel movies.

Then I just wake up. not afraid. But like I just saw an old friend or family member recently.

Idk its a very weird experience of mine because it wasn't terrifying it just stuck with me alot more, felt meaningful.

Dont know, thought it was worth sharing.

I have often wondered, after my experience with them, if I crossed over to another realm that I would one day revisit.