Sleep Paralysis, and visions! oh boo

I've had these quite a few times, and I have to say, its quite terrifying.
Sleep Paralysis, if you don't know what it is, well, here is a good link:

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html<BR>
Not being able to move your body, while your awake is terrifying enough, but when you start hearing strange noises, or hallucinating horror type things, well that just sucks.
Usually I just hear laughing, normal laughing, not mad cackling. and it sounds like the voices are coming from in the back of my head. (oh- haha, that sounds so bad). Sometimes I'll hear a moan, but its not really a moan, its just scarey in its unmoanlike way. Sometimes I'll just feel like there is something really bad, or really evil around me. And sometimes, I'll see this person in my peripheral vision sitting in a chair next to my bed, and I'm not sure if they even see me, or know I see them? The point is, its freaky. I know two other people who experience this on occassion (maybe a few times a year).
My roommate, and my cousin.
The reason I decided to post this, was because I just noticed something interesting. I was hypothesizing that having a strong Pisces in your chart makes you more susceptible to these things. It allows you to open up, or become vulnerable?
I have a Pisces moon.
My roommate is Aquarius/Pisces Sun Cusp
My cousin is Pisces Sun

Does anybody else have experience with this? Is there a Pisces, or sign equal in "properties and characteristics" in the chart?

I've had several...more than I can remember. Science calls it sleep paralysis. I beleive it's of a spiritual nature. Why some have these and others don't is a puzzle. Did you have trouble breathing or feel that your chest was being sat upon by a rhino? It's a terrorizing feeling of helplessness until it passes. The apparition(s) you are seeing are not hallucinations. You are tapping into a world of the spirit. Have you been interested (reading about or watching) anything to do with the occult OR have you delved deeper into religeous or church matters? I ask because this is normally when this happens to me. I know some would call it coincidence and that's for them to think. I know that when I study the bible or get more involved in church activities these occurences are not far behind. It is as if it is meant to put a fear in me and take my spiritual eyes off of God. I know that sounds strange, especially to people who don't beleive in God but this is my experience. Science will always find a way to explain God away....Tell it to go away in the name of Jesus next time, and it will obey immediately. It Has to.

I am with you Jwalker. I've experienced what is called "Sleep paralysis" and I do believe you somehow tap into the supernatural world. The difficulty breathing, wanting to yell or scream and finding you can't, struggling or trying to move while in a semi-conscious state - phew! Not a good feeling.

Sun & Jupiter both in Pisces; i've also experienced sleep paralysis. Usually only a few times a year and not as much as i used to, thankfully..lol~ But still, always VERY terrifying! What i experience too, is a deep sense of evil around me. It's like i have no control over anything in this state. Like my mind and body are being taken over by some unseen force..screaming inside my mind for help, but to no avail! ..unnable to move a single muscle, except for my eyes. i hear alot of loud echos, voices, banging and clanking, that only grow louder and louder! And what's worse, all my most frightening thoughts are instantly brought to life inside my own frantic mind, trying sooo hard to push them away! i feel as if i am in grave danger, if i don't completely awaken soon! Thankfully though, i have never felt a pressure upon my chest, or trouble breathing. It's mostly auditory, with some visual. It really doesn't feel all that human either, more 'alienish', or unearthly and sometimes i may sense more than one...

- i have heard this can be hereditary, and does lessen in time. Sometimes brought on by extreme tiredness or over fatigue..sleep/cycle circadian rythem could be temporarily out of balance. i myself tend to believe what the scientists say; 'your mind awakens before your body has a chance to; thus you're still very conscious and aware of your own paralytic state -the bodies own safety switch, so we don't pysically act out our dreams while still sleeping...i do sometimes ponder though; what is the purpose of the mind 'scaring' us so; why couldn't we experience pure 'joy' in this state, instead?' ..hmmmmm

Hi Mystic....that's o.k. for an explanation as far as the mind wakes up before the body thus, the paralysis but what about the noises, what about the pressure and feelings that most seem to have that there is a presence with you. I just had another one of these "invasions" myself on Monday night. It was the strangest one yet. Instead of feeling crushed as usual and not being able to breath, I felt as if my whole body was a hive of buzzing bees. I mean my insides felt hollow and electrified and "Buzzing" it was sooooo weird. This one is totally new to me. I did call out the name of Jesus tho and it left immediately.Truth.

Hi Jwalker.. wowww! What you had to go through, yet again! ...now with the buzzing of bees; that must have been totally scary; i can't imagine. That is something very different, i've really never heard of that! Just glad you're okay.. And you're so very right - that part of it, besides the scientific explanation for sleep paralysis, i had mentioned..'i do very much do ponder the 'why' of it. Why scare us, what really is this— Maybe it is a convenient backdoor for something more spiritual or sinister in nature. There certainly are many things in life science can't or won't ever answer...'i believe we do have to look up to a higher, more stronger power...

I've experienced that many times. I feel like something is trying to possess me. Once I heard a scream inside my head when I 'fought' it... twice I've felt hands... choking.. paralysis..
At first I thought I was just having nightmares and then it started happening during the day time and while I was awake.
Finally it has made me paranoid.. 😢 Atleast during the day time I can roll over on my side and fall asleep but at night it gets to me a bit more.
I once actually *prayed* while it was happening and it made it so much worse! That time it was pressure crushing me from the outside... at first I felt a hand massaging my chest which made me angry and I grabbed it and threw it aside. It was then that it moved from my side and started to crush me starting at my feet and slowly climbing up. I thought I must be having a nightmare and tried to ignore it and fall back asleep but when I started having trouble breathing I tried to turn on my side. It seemed like ages and like I was carrying a thousand pounds but I thought if I didn't fight it, it would kill me! I reached for the light.. it turned on for half a second and the bulb went out! Then FUMM! all of a sudden it lifted! and the light came on.
That's happened many times.
Somewhat different is when I close my eyes during the daytime and I feel a force sinking into my head.. I didn't fight it and sure enough it just kept sinking into me.. I did it enough times to know that it really was real! Then I heard that scream.. from *inside* my head.. and the fleeing image of a face. It'd be gone every time I would open my eyes. So weird.
I think that maybe it's a combination of your mind and "something else" that may try to take advantage of the disorientation. All I know.. is fukk you! Whatever you are! lol

*looks around in paranoia*

I'm a cancer with pisces moon and i have suffered with sleep paralysis for as long as i can remember. I have a couple of episodes a month..i think the hereditery link is true as my dad gets them too.
Mine usually follow the same pattern but they never get any less terrifying!!!.Usually i can hear someone coming upstairs at home or i dream i wake up and see a man standing in the doorway in my bedroom.I just feel a real evil presence and can't move or scream. The incidents probably only last for seconds but it feels like forever.Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible.........

Oh I hate sleep paralysis...or so they call it,my mom is a pisces/libra moon and she tells me she has the same thing happen to her but her spirit comes out of her body and shes on the ceiling looking down at her body....i haven't had all that happen to me but its a scary feeling and my impulse it to move out of it immideately ,but my mom has some super crazy stories....like knowing where something has been hidden b/c during the 'sleep paralasis' her spirit was leading her to it...

my moon and rising is pisces by the way

You know Jwalker as i recall my episodes, they do occur more often when i read my bible or try to go deeper in my fellowship with God and its like ok I know its gonna start. I'm curious though, if I don't fear and just let it take control what the outcome would be..bad or good.anything we are uncertain about is going to cause an initial reaction of fear perhaps there really is nothing to fear- I just get tired of not knowing, and from what my mom experiences its never negative per say...things like this interest me but i'll only delve so deep b/c i don't want to start inviting anything in thats not of God...

Hi LovelyL: I agree about letting too much get in to your mind. Here's what I think, right or wrong. I think these "entities" which I call demons are not hereditary at all OR related to any particular sun signs. I beleive there are demons on assignment just as there are angels on assignmnet. Of course the assignment for a demon or group of them, is to seperate (by whatever means) the creation from the creator. If this FEAR immobilizes us and we actually take note that it is meant to keep our sprits from accelerating toward GOD then, we are subject to even heavier attack. "New Level, New Devil" as Joyce Meyer nicely puts it. As I wrote above, I conquer it right away. It does not have time now to put fear into me. I beleive that may be why I had the buzzing bee thing. It was different, and I wasn't as prepared to be attacked in that way.

Anyone who is into the Word of God know that we do not wrestle with flesh and blood but with spirits and principalities. These manifest themselves in so many ways. How anyone can hear voices, see a presence in the room, and "feel" evil next to them or on top of them and call it science is beyond me. This experience SHOULD be a wake up call to the people who it is happening to. Some people have seen angels, and we have witnesses demons. It's a privelage that God has allowed us a look into the spiritual world...Which happens to be the "REAL" one. 😉

"witnesses"=witnessed

I also think we are supposed to be stifled in our spritual growth after we see the pattern of : I seek God, therefore I am subject to heavy spiritual activity. Well yes, that is the way it is. This is a spiritual warefare, and Satan doesn't have any rules.

Well there goes the pisces theory

Pisces, have had sleep paralysis off and on since age 18. Been having it a lot the past few months...what's worst to me is the fact that the dream seems to stop. I dream I'm awake from the first event but in reality it's only a continuation of the sleep paralysis.

The last one, I "woke" holding my daughter's leg which in the initial dream I thought was the arm of some thug. Proceeded to tell her about the dream, until I heard another loud noise, looked over at my daughter and she was floating, back against the ceiling....

she was never really in the room. I was never really awake. Neither of those things seemed fake when they were happening. It freaks me out, totally.


And, frankly, I do think it's spiritual in nature, although I accept the biological explanations. Just that it's so random but recurring...I have to assume that if it were mere biology, it would happen much more often to individuals.

hey this is pretty crazy... i have this happen to me every once in a while... twice a year sounds about right. I have a pisces moon. The last time this happened to me was aweful... couldn't move, tried so hard to wake up, but my eyes weighed a ton each. i was seeing a little boy next to my bed who was yelling at me. he was calling me a chicken! kinda funny looking back, but it totally confused and freaked me out then. the next moment the little boy turned into a man... very very dark and he was yelling at me as well... right next to my bed. man, i was terrified. i kept waking up and falling right back to sleep, seeing this man. once i finally did wake and stay awake... i couldn't bring myself to try and sleep again til the next afternoon.

the first time i recall this happening, i heard children laughing in my room. something very evil holding me down in bed, and pressing on my chest, keeping me from breathing... very much like an incubus. and again... i couldn't get myself to wake up or even move. if i did get my eyes even half open, they were shut again in half a second and it was back to laughing and the sinister figure. very disturbing and disorienting stuff.

seems in my case this sleep paralysis is usually accompanied with a nice bout of sleep apnea (when you stop breathing in your sleep). just to make things more fun. and i dont have sinus problems... i simply wake up gasping.

seems in my case this sleep paralysis is usually accompanied with a nice bout of sleep apnea (when you stop breathing in your sleep). just to make things more fun. and i dont have sinus problems... i simply wake up gasping.

Same here (pisces). I was reading that sleep paralysis will happen to everyone at least once in their lifetime, though I would say that it happens to me maybe once a month (and usually accompanied by a sleep so deep that I feel slightly comatose as I struggle to come to). Regarding its relationship to astrology, I've often wondered if the fact that specific traits seem to be correlated with our birth date could be a result of the concentration of different chemicals being more prevalent in the atmosphere during a particular time of year/season (for ex., there is higher atmospheric hydrogen chloride present during summer months and peaks in sulfate during spring/summer and sodium chloride during winter/spring). I can imagine chemical concentrations like these having a huge impact on the development of life, esp. during the earliest stages of development when everything is first forming, esp. the physiology of the brain.

It's hard to know what theory to believe. If you've ever watched psychic siliva browne, well she states that this is a condition called Astro Catelepsy (sp?) The strange sensations, banging and sounds, the feeling of being held down, is actually your *spirit* self trying to get back into your physical body. (astral travel-astral projection)

its happend to me too. i hate it! i felt it in my back the first time and i was on my belly and leaning upwards awake. then all of a sudden i felt the numbing vibration in my lower back, it was so bad i coulnt roll my eyes even! it was terrifying!
one spring of 06 it happend again and i was struggling to move.. i was wanting to phone so bad that i thougth i had it in my hang but i coldnt see hte buttons and i was barely able to move at all and i put on a pretty strong fight but i saw a white cloudy looking creature above me and the hand was the only thing i could barely make out. it was scary. that morning i woke up with soaked bed sheets too and i dont know where the moisture came from. it was scary.

Thats an interesting group...trying to figure out what to take from it and what to leave behind...i want to explore it more but it scares me so when it happens...and I struggle to wake and start praying Psalms...🙂...one of these days though i'll see where it takes me...

I am so glad, I am not the only one that this happens too. I have experienced this before, and my sister explained it was a sleeping phase or something, and was called a night terror. But something tells me it is more. I have experienced two of these but one in particular, had me worried. it was early morning, and I saw what I think my mind visualizes christ to be. He was very tall and white.He had long dark hair, and a white dress or robe. and this amazing bright light came from behind him so that I could only see him and blinded me of everything else and he was talking to me in a weird language i couldnt make out, but i still understood what he was saying to me. but while I saw this I had this feeling of evil around me. And he was telling me to go with him, and i refused. And deep down inside i knew he was not christ, and it was evil. And so i told him no, and told him he was not christ and thats when i woke up. I felt the heavyness in my chest lift it was one of the most wierd experiences in my life. I think our dreams and our mind has the ability to communicate with the spiritual world.