For a while I have been noticing these things. The lights in a distance, I'll see them for a few seconds, then they'll blot out. Like those things a lot of people see in their peripheral vision, except at a long distance I am able to see it straight on. It seems that the distance depends on how long I am able to see a particular light for. For example, last night on my midnight walk I saw a light in the corner of my eye in the woods. I looked up at it straight on for about 1 second before it vanished. It's been happening increasingly.
For a while I just thought they were street lights going out as I looked at them, I'm starting to get skeptical about that. I know there's been plenty of threads on the SLIder phenomenon, but I feel I have to add some more experiences in this post. People will say it's just coincidence, they say look at how many times it doesn't shut off when you pass near it. Well, it's a rare occurrence certain ones don't shut off. About 3 weeks ago I was feeling really nervous for no particular reason in my house, and I noticed for the first time in a long time the street light didn't turn on or off as I passed near it. I know something strange is going on when it doesn't happen. It's not every single street light, but only a few that are dependable to the effect. A few of my friends have mentioned the street lights that do it too. Although some people I mention to just give me a blank stare, they're the stupid people I know though.
I've noticed that the one by my house does it at a certain radius. Once I reach about 12 feet of the street light it will shut on or off until I am about 12 feet away from it. I used to watch it at night through my window, as it seemed to almost synchronize with my thoughts. I stopped doing that though, it made things a little too strange.
The stars seem like lately they have been going super nova crazy. I first noticed it a few weeks ago while I was looking at the stars on someone's roof. It was the night about 2 weeks after the lunar eclipse and the moon was amazing. It was a sliver lying on its back, you could see the rest of it though, it reminded my of a magnifying glass. There was also a very bright star or planet perpendicular to the base of the sliver. While examining the rest of the stars it looked like some of them were disappearing in front of my eyes. Following, I've noticed every night I can see some stars vanishing, all through the night. Big stars, little stars, HUGE stars. Some that seem to be too big to be either stars or planets, but still circular; they aren't planes or satellites. Even stranger, sometimes stars will appear. Sometimes I'll see a star disappear, then reappear somewhere else. Supernova goes pop?
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Interesting, perhaps your mind is playing ticks on you with the stars, but as for the street light, I cannot explain that. Maybe someone is playing pranks on you with it.... though highly unlikely, it is plausable. But with how much this has been happening I don't think that is the case. Have you ever had that happen with other electronics?
Perhaps you are a mutant, we could call you LAMP POST BOY! ABLE TO TURN OFF LIGHTS WITH HIS MIND!
Perhaps you are a mutant, we could call you LAMP POST BOY! ABLE TO TURN OFF LIGHTS WITH HIS MIND!
Just to answer the shooting stars issue: Theta Virginids meteor showers peaked in late March.
Opus Magnus,
You are being blessed my friend by the most high. Those are not just lights there are Angles lights and you have been blessed to see thier presents. Enjoy --- by the way you can also contact them, smile!!That is if you know how.
Yeah, I have seen a few more shooting stars than usual, but that's not what I'm talking about. Thanks for the info though because I wasn't aware of Theta Virginids meteor shower.
Angel lights huh. I'm sure it's something out of the ordinary.
Yeah, occasionally electronics do funny things around me. Like my computer, if I end up falling asleep by it I'll find all kinds of programs opened and some text in Microsoft Word. I've had a few bad experiences with cell phones, but they usually work fine around me. I guess it depends on my mood. What really bugs me though is that in one night my PS2 game got demagnetized, my computer shocked itself dead, my car got a flat tire while sitting in the garage and the washer stopped working. Along with some spots on the TV that got demagnetized, but those spots have faded in time.
Angel lights huh. I'm sure it's something out of the ordinary.
Yeah, occasionally electronics do funny things around me. Like my computer, if I end up falling asleep by it I'll find all kinds of programs opened and some text in Microsoft Word. I've had a few bad experiences with cell phones, but they usually work fine around me. I guess it depends on my mood. What really bugs me though is that in one night my PS2 game got demagnetized, my computer shocked itself dead, my car got a flat tire while sitting in the garage and the washer stopped working. Along with some spots on the TV that got demagnetized, but those spots have faded in time.
While this phenomena may seem to have some aire of the paranormal, I feel that what you are experiencing has natural orgins that can be explained with a slight understanding of two areas of knowledge, the human eye ( in particular Rods and Cones) as well as a bit of astronomy. This explanation may seem long, but if you are truly interested in what is happening you shouls read it thoroughly
Twinkling stars, stars that seem to change color, and stars that seem to disappear then reapper I assure you is not a paranormal experience. Twinkling stars, in actuallity,are not twinkling at all just as the stars are not physically changing color to the degree we percieve them to be in a given night. Stars seem to twinkle (stellar scintillation) or change color(chromatic abberation) due to the light passing through the Earth's Atmosphere. As the light passes through the Earth's atmosphere it encounters several layers of turbulent air, each layer having a different density (hot and cold air pockets will have dffernt densities). These differences cause the light from the stars to be bend with each layer and be scattered in random directions.(this is similar to the way a straw seems to bend when it is put into a glass of water, or how heat rising off the hot summer pavement creates a wavy image). The random refraction and scattering of the starlight causes us to percieve the star as moving, and is interrpreted as twinkling to our mind (or disappeating to you).
The apparent changing of star color is also do to the atmosphere acting as a prism coupled with the turbulent air masses. As most people know prisms refract the light into the rainbow of colors. When the starlight enters our atmosphere not only is it bending within each layer, the starlight is being seperated into the rainbow of colors and being scattered when passing from layer to layer. Each color of the rainbow is seen on a different frequency, the frequency that stimulates the most color appropriate photoreceptors in the eye is is the color percieved(explained more below).
Keeping this brief astronomy lesson in mind,we need to next look at the eye. Our vision is due largely in part to two types of cells in the eyes called Rods and Cones. Cones function in bright light levels and are responsable for seeing colors. Rods function in low light levels, are highly sensitive to even a single photon. In fact a single Rod is 100 times more sensitive to light that are Cones. Because Rods are more sensitive to light, they require less light to function and are responsable for our "night vision". Rods are also located on the outer edges of the retina and are used in abundance in periphial vision. Usually the Rods work independantly but sometimes they can converge together collecting and amplifying information. While this sounds like it would be good, it comes at a cost to perception, Rod convergences cause the peripheral vision to become very sensitive to movement, and is responsible for the phenomenon of individuals seeing something vague occur out of the corner of his or her eye. (as you have been experiencing)
Rod cells also respond more slowly to changs in light, even though rods more sensitive to smaller amounts of light, it also means that their ability to sense temporal changes, such as quickly changing images (twinking stars), is less accurate than that of cones. (this may be why stars seem to disappear and then reappear somewhere else). Your eyes simply cannot make the adjustment fast enough.
Rods are also highly sensitive to the blue area of the spectrum and have extremely low sensitivity[/b] to the red spectrum. This could cause you to view a star the "changes colors" from blue to red to disappear then reappear. In short your eyes while finding it easy to adjust to the blue spectrum and thus anything blue, has difficulty in adjusting to changes to the red spectrum; you can see the star when it is blue but not when it is red.
I hope this helps somewhat, and I highly recommend a trip to the Optomitrist.
Twinkling stars, stars that seem to change color, and stars that seem to disappear then reapper I assure you is not a paranormal experience. Twinkling stars, in actuallity,are not twinkling at all just as the stars are not physically changing color to the degree we percieve them to be in a given night. Stars seem to twinkle (stellar scintillation) or change color(chromatic abberation) due to the light passing through the Earth's Atmosphere. As the light passes through the Earth's atmosphere it encounters several layers of turbulent air, each layer having a different density (hot and cold air pockets will have dffernt densities). These differences cause the light from the stars to be bend with each layer and be scattered in random directions.(this is similar to the way a straw seems to bend when it is put into a glass of water, or how heat rising off the hot summer pavement creates a wavy image). The random refraction and scattering of the starlight causes us to percieve the star as moving, and is interrpreted as twinkling to our mind (or disappeating to you).
The apparent changing of star color is also do to the atmosphere acting as a prism coupled with the turbulent air masses. As most people know prisms refract the light into the rainbow of colors. When the starlight enters our atmosphere not only is it bending within each layer, the starlight is being seperated into the rainbow of colors and being scattered when passing from layer to layer. Each color of the rainbow is seen on a different frequency, the frequency that stimulates the most color appropriate photoreceptors in the eye is is the color percieved(explained more below).
Keeping this brief astronomy lesson in mind,we need to next look at the eye. Our vision is due largely in part to two types of cells in the eyes called Rods and Cones. Cones function in bright light levels and are responsable for seeing colors. Rods function in low light levels, are highly sensitive to even a single photon. In fact a single Rod is 100 times more sensitive to light that are Cones. Because Rods are more sensitive to light, they require less light to function and are responsable for our "night vision". Rods are also located on the outer edges of the retina and are used in abundance in periphial vision. Usually the Rods work independantly but sometimes they can converge together collecting and amplifying information. While this sounds like it would be good, it comes at a cost to perception, Rod convergences cause the peripheral vision to become very sensitive to movement, and is responsible for the phenomenon of individuals seeing something vague occur out of the corner of his or her eye. (as you have been experiencing)
Rod cells also respond more slowly to changs in light, even though rods more sensitive to smaller amounts of light, it also means that their ability to sense temporal changes, such as quickly changing images (twinking stars), is less accurate than that of cones. (this may be why stars seem to disappear and then reappear somewhere else). Your eyes simply cannot make the adjustment fast enough.
Rods are also highly sensitive to the blue area of the spectrum and have extremely low sensitivity[/b] to the red spectrum. This could cause you to view a star the "changes colors" from blue to red to disappear then reappear. In short your eyes while finding it easy to adjust to the blue spectrum and thus anything blue, has difficulty in adjusting to changes to the red spectrum; you can see the star when it is blue but not when it is red.
I hope this helps somewhat, and I highly recommend a trip to the Optomitrist.
As far as your apparent effect on streetlights I offer you insight from Occam's Razor paraphrased, " the simplest solution tends to be the best one. No need to make something paranormal out of the mere turning off of streetlights. Streetlights DO turn ON and OFF by themselves.
What you are experiencing is nothing more fantastical than one of the following, streetlights on a timer, streetlights hooked to photosensors, or bulbs that have a kill switch,that when engaged due to the bulb overheating, shuts the light off until it has cooled sufficiently to come back on. Most cities, in an effort to conserve energy, have their streetlights on timers, which allows some to coming on when others go out. WHen this happens to occur when you are walking by it may seem that you have some "Magical" effect on the light. But consider this, most steetlights are 10 - 20 feet overhead, if you are causing some sort of intereference to make this steetlight go out, you should be seeing intereference with many more electrical aplliances go haywire in your own home, school, and houses you walk by.
Streetlights turn themselves on and off on a regular basis regaurdless if someone is walking beneath them,it simply goes unoticed until it happens while you are walking by them; making that a coincidence not something paranormal.
What you are experiencing is nothing more fantastical than one of the following, streetlights on a timer, streetlights hooked to photosensors, or bulbs that have a kill switch,that when engaged due to the bulb overheating, shuts the light off until it has cooled sufficiently to come back on. Most cities, in an effort to conserve energy, have their streetlights on timers, which allows some to coming on when others go out. WHen this happens to occur when you are walking by it may seem that you have some "Magical" effect on the light. But consider this, most steetlights are 10 - 20 feet overhead, if you are causing some sort of intereference to make this steetlight go out, you should be seeing intereference with many more electrical aplliances go haywire in your own home, school, and houses you walk by.
Streetlights turn themselves on and off on a regular basis regaurdless if someone is walking beneath them,it simply goes unoticed until it happens while you are walking by them; making that a coincidence not something paranormal.
i got similar experiences the last weeks, the stars are flickering in all kinds of colours red blue yellow and so on and when i try to feel some of them i feel sickness, it's really strange especially the venus is pulsating really strong, they don't dissappear, but as i tried to put my energy, "confronting it" towards the star it became smaller again
I have been to the eye doctor many times. I've had fear that my retina may be detaching from the retinal wall, viscerous fluid leaking through the retina, glaucoma, and other things I can't even remember the terms for right now. Nothing is wrong with my eyes besides having a minor astigmatism.
Occams Razor can be contradicted by that the universe is too complicated for the simplest solution to always be the best one.
It's strange to live when everyday my view on reality drastically changes. At times it even seems like I am living in an inversion of what should be. It seems that people are living a delusion. Culture has taken over our minds, people forget that the mind exists outside of culture. We aren't free because conformity is a necessity.
Furthermore, I'm quiting UM. It's been a nice run. Good bye.
Occams Razor can be contradicted by that the universe is too complicated for the simplest solution to always be the best one.
It's strange to live when everyday my view on reality drastically changes. At times it even seems like I am living in an inversion of what should be. It seems that people are living a delusion. Culture has taken over our minds, people forget that the mind exists outside of culture. We aren't free because conformity is a necessity.
Furthermore, I'm quiting UM. It's been a nice run. Good bye.
I used to do that. I would stare at the stars and be able to block them out.
Have you ever been struck by lightening, Opus? Or been around someone who has? This could explain your experiences with electricity. I have read in several sources that lightening strike victims start to have a bad relationship with electic products: lights going off when they past, scrambling electro-magnectic waves, TV, Microwaves etc not working when they are in the room. It has something to do with the high jolt of electricity re-arranges cells and has a profound effective on our brains electro-magnetic capabilites. Discovery Channel just had a show on about this the other night 
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For a while I have been noticing these things. The lights in a distance, I'll see them for a few seconds, then they'll blot out. Like those things a lot of people see in their peripheral vision, except at a long distance I am able to see it straight on. It seems that the distance depends on how long I am able to see a particular light for. For example, last night on my midnight walk I saw a light in the corner of my eye in the woods. I looked up at it straight on for about 1 second before it vanished. It's been happening increasingly.
For a while I just thought they were street lights going out as I looked at them, I'm starting to get skeptical about that. I know there's been plenty of threads on the SLIder phenomenon, but I feel I have to add some more experiences in this post. People will say it's just coincidence, they say look at how many times it doesn't shut off when you pass near it. Well, it's a rare occurrence certain ones don't shut off. About 3 weeks ago I was feeling really nervous for no particular reason in my house, and I noticed for the first time in a long time the street light didn't turn on or off as I passed near it. I know something strange is going on when it doesn't happen. It's not every single street light, but only a few that are dependable to the effect. A few of my friends have mentioned the street lights that do it too. Although some people I mention to just give me a blank stare, they're the stupid people I know though.
I've noticed that the one by my house does it at a certain radius. Once I reach about 12 feet of the street light it will shut on or off until I am about 12 feet away from it. I used to watch it at night through my window, as it seemed to almost synchronize with my thoughts. I stopped doing that though, it made things a little too strange.
The stars seem like lately they have been going super nova crazy. I first noticed it a few weeks ago while I was looking at the stars on someone's roof. It was the night about 2 weeks after the lunar eclipse and the moon was amazing. It was a sliver lying on its back, you could see the rest of it though, it reminded my of a magnifying glass. There was also a very bright star or planet perpendicular to the base of the sliver. While examining the rest of the stars it looked like some of them were disappearing in front of my eyes. Following, I've noticed every night I can see some stars vanishing, all through the night. Big stars, little stars, HUGE stars. Some that seem to be too big to be either stars or planets, but still circular; they aren't planes or satellites. Even stranger, sometimes stars will appear. Sometimes I'll see a star disappear, then reappear somewhere else. Supernova goes pop?
For a while I just thought they were street lights going out as I looked at them, I'm starting to get skeptical about that. I know there's been plenty of threads on the SLIder phenomenon, but I feel I have to add some more experiences in this post. People will say it's just coincidence, they say look at how many times it doesn't shut off when you pass near it. Well, it's a rare occurrence certain ones don't shut off. About 3 weeks ago I was feeling really nervous for no particular reason in my house, and I noticed for the first time in a long time the street light didn't turn on or off as I passed near it. I know something strange is going on when it doesn't happen. It's not every single street light, but only a few that are dependable to the effect. A few of my friends have mentioned the street lights that do it too. Although some people I mention to just give me a blank stare, they're the stupid people I know though.
I've noticed that the one by my house does it at a certain radius. Once I reach about 12 feet of the street light it will shut on or off until I am about 12 feet away from it. I used to watch it at night through my window, as it seemed to almost synchronize with my thoughts. I stopped doing that though, it made things a little too strange.
The stars seem like lately they have been going super nova crazy. I first noticed it a few weeks ago while I was looking at the stars on someone's roof. It was the night about 2 weeks after the lunar eclipse and the moon was amazing. It was a sliver lying on its back, you could see the rest of it though, it reminded my of a magnifying glass. There was also a very bright star or planet perpendicular to the base of the sliver. While examining the rest of the stars it looked like some of them were disappearing in front of my eyes. Following, I've noticed every night I can see some stars vanishing, all through the night. Big stars, little stars, HUGE stars. Some that seem to be too big to be either stars or planets, but still circular; they aren't planes or satellites. Even stranger, sometimes stars will appear. Sometimes I'll see a star disappear, then reappear somewhere else. Supernova goes pop?
Stars are known to burn out lol. Stars also drift in space. I used to stare at one star in one area then put my finger in the spot and watch it move. It was trippy. But not unheard of. There's so much activity in space, average people don't take the time to admire the changes in the sky. You are an individual who obviously does. Though, have you ever thought about paranoia?
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