Praying Mantis
To dream of a praying mantis represents your feelings about behavior that annoys you with emotional detachment that doesn't care about what you are feeling while it cares about what it's doing is more important. Feeling that someone is intentionally unsupportive. Feelings about a person who scares you that they are aware of themselves never listening to your feelings.
Ayahuasca users commonly report seeing a praying mantis symbolism while intoxicated by the tea. The praying mantis in these cases may symbolize a person's annoyance with ayahuasca being emotionally detached from allowing you to perfectly enjoy the hallucinogenic experience while forcing you to have unpleasant confrontation with fear or other negative psychological issues.
Example: A young man dreamed of getting into a fight with a praying mantis and getting stung by it. In waking life, he felt he was risking breaking up with his girlfriend if he left on a trip and took the trip anyway. His girlfriend broke up with him shortly after. In this case, the praying mantis may have reflected his annoyance with his girlfriend being emotionally detached while not caring about anything he was feeling by demanding that he cancel his trip for her plans instead.
