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The Scariest Thing You Can Meet on Psychedelics. 😳

Shawn Ryan Show

A person describes an encounter with tall, mantis-like beings wearing black robes during a psychedelic experience who told them to leave a particular realm. The experience was intense and frightening enough that they avoided psychedelics for years, though they later noted the realm felt strangely familiar despite it being their first trip.

Summary

The speaker recounts a psychedelic experience in which they encountered beings described as tall, thin creatures covered in black robes resembling mantis insects. These entities communicated a direct and forceful message: the speaker should not be present in that location and needed to leave immediately. The tone was not casual or friendly but rather an intense, explicit command to get out and never return. This encounter was sufficiently disturbing that the speaker made a conscious decision to discontinue psychedelic use for approximately two years following the incident. When reflecting on the experience afterward, the speaker expresses a belief that they may have been in an actual alternate realm or dimension rather than experiencing purely internal hallucinations. Adding to the intrigue, despite this being their first encounter with this space, the speaker describes a peculiar sense of familiarity upon arrival—as though they had been to this realm previously. This paradox of recognizing a place on a first visit remains an unresolved element of their account.

Key Insights

  • The speaker encountered tall, thin beings covered in black robes resembling mantises that explicitly told them to leave a particular space
  • The beings' communication was aggressive and direct—not casual advice but an intense command to leave and never return
  • The experience was disturbing enough that the speaker abstained from psychedelics for approximately two years
  • The speaker believes they accessed an actual alternate realm rather than experiencing purely internal hallucinations
  • Despite it being the speaker's first trip, the encountered realm felt familiar and recognizable, as though they had been there before

Topics

Psychedelic encounters with entitiesMantis beings or insectoid creaturesAlternate realms or dimensionsIntense and threatening experiences on psychedelicsSense of familiarity in unknown spaces

Transcript

[0:00] I've seen the mantis beings. Tall, thin, covered in like black robes. They were kind of scary looking. And they said, "You shouldn't be in here." I remember [music] being pretty scared when they said, "You shouldn't be here." It wasn't like, "Hey, man. Don't mess with this." It was like, "Get the F out of here and do not come back." It was pretty intense. So, [music] when that experience was over, I was like, "Okay, I'm not going to do this for a while." Which I didn't for like a couple of years. [music] What do you make of that? I think that there's something to it. You think you're in another realm? I do. But, thing…

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