JoeCapricorn
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I had a really strange dream last night. Before I get to that, I wonder if anyone else has dreams about mantises and insects in general.
There has been a consistent pattern with my dreams. Whenever I try and experiment with raising eggs or coccoons of certain insects, I'll have a dream about them hatching and being all over my room. I've had this dream about mantises, grasshoppers and small moths. The small moths in a sort came true, because the coccoons actually hatched, but then I let them go. I never had a successful hatching of an Ooth (I never tried, a previous pet mantis of mine laid two ooths and I put them outside to overwinter) nor any grasshopper eggs. I also hatch a Monarch Butterfly chrysalis in the 5th grade, but didn't dream about that before hand.
I also have dreams about having a sophisticated garden set up in my room with no actual barrier to enclose the insects, so far only had this about grasshoppers. I have set up gardens in a 10 gallon terrarium with grass and other plants to keep grasshoppers as pets... the theory was to only have to water the enclosure, but the reality was mold... X_X;
Now, the dream I had last night was right up there with one of the most bizarre dreams I have ever had. All of my dreams are extremely surreal, many of them influenced directly by paintings of Salvador Dali. Since I'm working on a Surrealism related project for web design, the surreality of my dreams has been stronger than ever.
So, I had a dream that I went to a pet store and there were a large assortment of mantises. The place resembled Petco, but the lady that worked there was similar to the one who works at this place where I got an actual pet Madagascar Hissing Cockroach. So, in this dream I bought a cage full of two different species of apparently colonial and non-cannibalistic mantids. One resembled Chinese mantids, the other was closer to a Horse Lubber grasshopper in a Praying mantis shape. There was also this large mantis, who had a head, legs and thorax a bit larger than a Chinese mantis, but an abdomen that was extremely large, fat, leaf like and exaggerated. The abdomen was closer to the shape of the abdomen of a Malaysian Jungle Nymph, only twisted and about 50 times larger than the rest of the mantis.
; This particular mantis was not "for sale", it was some sort of super breeder. She was also apparently 10 years old. Then I saw a bunch of Orchid mantises, and I exchanged my large cage full of about two dozen mantises for this one tiny orchid mantis. Then the dream ended.
Now, I see this as mainly a reactionary dream, a reaction to me actually getting 4 baby African mantises. This dream is also reflecting my hope that a local pet store will actually carry Flower mantises, this is the same store I got my roach from (they've had flower mantises in the past). The pet store in my dream could also symbolize my recent stumbling upon the mantis pet hobby and my recent reassurance about ordering mantises from the internet... I do not know what the giant mutant mantis in my dream symbolizes, although she was green and perhaps reflects my mourning for my late pet Chinese mantis Emerald, who was also green.
Mantis dreams for me are quite recent. Most of my insect dreams were about grasshoppers, especially finding an unusually large one. I remember dreams where I was chasing 6 inch grasshoppers from when I was a kid. In fact, since I started keeping wild caught mantises as pets, I haven't kept a grasshopper as a pet. Something recent clicked that pretty much shifted my focus to mantises from grasshoppers. In previous years, I of course have been fascinated by mantises, but I never kept them as a pet before and I would relocate them in my yard so they wouldn't eat the grasshoppers.
There has been a consistent pattern with my dreams. Whenever I try and experiment with raising eggs or coccoons of certain insects, I'll have a dream about them hatching and being all over my room. I've had this dream about mantises, grasshoppers and small moths. The small moths in a sort came true, because the coccoons actually hatched, but then I let them go. I never had a successful hatching of an Ooth (I never tried, a previous pet mantis of mine laid two ooths and I put them outside to overwinter) nor any grasshopper eggs. I also hatch a Monarch Butterfly chrysalis in the 5th grade, but didn't dream about that before hand.
I also have dreams about having a sophisticated garden set up in my room with no actual barrier to enclose the insects, so far only had this about grasshoppers. I have set up gardens in a 10 gallon terrarium with grass and other plants to keep grasshoppers as pets... the theory was to only have to water the enclosure, but the reality was mold... X_X;
Now, the dream I had last night was right up there with one of the most bizarre dreams I have ever had. All of my dreams are extremely surreal, many of them influenced directly by paintings of Salvador Dali. Since I'm working on a Surrealism related project for web design, the surreality of my dreams has been stronger than ever.
So, I had a dream that I went to a pet store and there were a large assortment of mantises. The place resembled Petco, but the lady that worked there was similar to the one who works at this place where I got an actual pet Madagascar Hissing Cockroach. So, in this dream I bought a cage full of two different species of apparently colonial and non-cannibalistic mantids. One resembled Chinese mantids, the other was closer to a Horse Lubber grasshopper in a Praying mantis shape. There was also this large mantis, who had a head, legs and thorax a bit larger than a Chinese mantis, but an abdomen that was extremely large, fat, leaf like and exaggerated. The abdomen was closer to the shape of the abdomen of a Malaysian Jungle Nymph, only twisted and about 50 times larger than the rest of the mantis.
; This particular mantis was not "for sale", it was some sort of super breeder. She was also apparently 10 years old. Then I saw a bunch of Orchid mantises, and I exchanged my large cage full of about two dozen mantises for this one tiny orchid mantis. Then the dream ended.Now, I see this as mainly a reactionary dream, a reaction to me actually getting 4 baby African mantises. This dream is also reflecting my hope that a local pet store will actually carry Flower mantises, this is the same store I got my roach from (they've had flower mantises in the past). The pet store in my dream could also symbolize my recent stumbling upon the mantis pet hobby and my recent reassurance about ordering mantises from the internet... I do not know what the giant mutant mantis in my dream symbolizes, although she was green and perhaps reflects my mourning for my late pet Chinese mantis Emerald, who was also green.
Mantis dreams for me are quite recent. Most of my insect dreams were about grasshoppers, especially finding an unusually large one. I remember dreams where I was chasing 6 inch grasshoppers from when I was a kid. In fact, since I started keeping wild caught mantises as pets, I haven't kept a grasshopper as a pet. Something recent clicked that pretty much shifted my focus to mantises from grasshoppers. In previous years, I of course have been fascinated by mantises, but I never kept them as a pet before and I would relocate them in my yard so they wouldn't eat the grasshoppers.
