Street Light Interference

[Teuthida]

Street Lamp Interference (S.L.I.) is the phenomenon of a person or persons that seem to affect or 'turn off' a street lamp when passing under it, and it is possibly a psychic event that is just beginning to be recognized and studied. Like most phenomena of this type, the evidence is almost exclusively anecdotal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Light_Interference

This has happens to me quite often and I always assumed they were just crappy streetlights...like why would they turn off if I walked under them? Thought might have been faulty motion-detector streetlights if they exist. Just recently heard about this on Mysterious Universe's podcast (highly reccomend it).

This happen to anyone else?

This fellow can do it at will. He was asked to prove it so here's a little video he made:

http://www.jasonchatfield.com/SLI/20060220_SLI.wmv

[Canyarion]

I know someone who used to be into spiritism and stuff. He still has this effect on street lights, though he tries not to think about it.
Once I started paying attention to it, it happened to me twice. ...

[Typhoid]

Theres this streetlight right around the corner from my house, and if I think about it, and walk passed it, if its on, it will flicker off, and off to on.

But if I'm not saying to myself: "****, that creepy light will do it again", it wont.

It only does it when I'm thinking about how creepy it is that it does it every time I go by it.


Sometimes when I get close, I even do a countdown. I'll think to myself "Within 10 seconds, it will go on/off...." then count, and it usually does it close to the 10 second mark.


I find it really, really odd. But I try not to think about it.

[Dylflon]

I was driving with my mom one time and thought to myself "I see street lamps that are out but I never see them go out".

As soon as I finished this throught, a street light we were about to pass under went out.

[GameMaster]

Sounds like a good topic for my research paper at the Xavier Institute-- oh..uh, I mean science class...

[Teuthida]

I can just imagine that being an X-Men power. Comes along for field missions to turn off lights to blind the enemy...and then sits off to the side drinking a cola as the rest engage in mutant warfare.

[GameMaster]

I think a meteor rock infected teenager from Smallville had that power. There was also a guy who sapped heat from everything just so he could remain at room temperature.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

I can just imagine that being an X-Men power. Comes along for field missions to turn off lights to blind the enemy...and then sits off to the side drinking a cola as the rest engage in mutant warfare.

That would come in handy while fighting in a brightly lit room, or someone with extreme light sensitivity, or possibly a migraine.

[Canyarion]

Couldn't it be some kind of electrical interference?

No, I know. A glitch in the Matrix.

[Neo]

It's nothing, there are people who happen to walk under a bunch of flourescent lights during their normal cycling period and that makes them think they have special powers. It's been well documented.

[GameMaster]

Originally Posted by Neo

It's nothing, there are people who happen to walk under a bunch of flourescent lights during their normal cycling period and that makes them think they have special powers. It's been well documented.

If this is nothing, then what category would you place following claims under:

- Fish taught to play sports
- Skinwalker Ranch
- Message from the grave
- dead swamp people
- Fairies stop developers
- Covert satanist Pat Robertson flashes devil sign
- Group wants humans extinct
- When sleep's an alien experience
- Remote control for humans
- Video goggles

I just thought it was kind of ironic that our top paranormaladvocate was so quick to dismiss this particular phenomenon. Did you have a negative experience with a street light as a child?