[size="5"][/size]Hi, All I am brand new to this forum and I'm so happy to be here!

I have something unusual that is going on here and since I cannot read for myself (yes I'm psychic) I'm trying to find out the cause of why this is happening. If this is coming from inside me or if there is someone with me that is causing this.

This has to do with lights. the lights you turn on and the street lights on our streets, etc.

Whenever I go out at night to walk my dogs, I come to a street light and they go OUT! When I pass by them then they turn back on. I do have a witness to this. My husband......we have been joking about this for years but it's gotten to the point that when I'm in my computer room (where I am most of the time doing my readings and work, etc) the fan lighting above my head flickers and flickers and it gets so bad that it blows the bulbs..........I cannot tell you how many bulbs I have replaced in a months' time.

Anyone have any ideas why this is happening. I know that I feel extremely exhausted and drained most of the time. Am I sucking all the power out of the lighting sources.

Terry

Hello and welcome to the forum.

Ok, here is the standard (on this board) check list.
How old is your wiring?
Have you had it checked in awhile?
If no then have them checked, faulty wiring in a home is dangerous.
If yes was the person certified?

Ok now that that is out of the way..
If you seriously have checked out the wiring in your home and know that it is sound and this problem is occurring anyway you might have one of several things going on.
The source could be you.. a form of telekinesis is possible. I don't know if I would say that you are sucking the power out of the lighting sources or you wouldn't feel drained but if you are going through a turbulent time (good or ill) the possibility of you causing the disturbance doesn't seem out of the question.

Street lights.. well that until you have eliminated some other possibilities would most likely be coincidence.

But check your houses wiring first.

Warm regards,
Mabon.

The house is only a few years old. it's a brand new house and there's nothing wrong with the power, this happens to me no matter where I am at. I was in my mother's house in another state and this also happened. the street lights situation happens OUT of town as well. I find it hard to believe that is a coincidence.

Go to the James Randi Educational Foundation, he might give you a million dollars for that (if you are speaking the truth).

LOL!
It's kind of a run down to check out known causes first.

And there are several people on the board that know far more about electrical wiring than I do that even though a house may be new or newer doesn't mean that the electricity was installed correctly.

But if you are sure that it isn't the home then by a process of elimination go through other ideas too. And coincidence is a part of that. I'm not trying to be hard nose about it either.
Sometimes when people look for something it appears. Say the number 13 for example, considered unlucky by some and if someone begins to fixate on the number they will start noticing the number everywhere... that kind of thing.

As I said before if you rule known or knowable causes first it will help you identify what is going on.

If this does happen regardless of location as you've stated you might be on to something.. What that is I have no idea..
But if you start to consider a few things. The disturbance is happening around you are you going through a turbulent time? Do these occurrences happen more often during times of stress?
Sometimes people generate what I term a chaos field, where electronics do go haywire, it may be coincidence or it may be uncontrolled psychokinesis.

Regards,
Mabon.

I think that's the kind of answer people are waiting for, that they have uncontrolled "psychokinesis."
I completely agree with wombat, who seems to have a lot of sense. Science isn't perfect, but i guarentee your physiology is just like every other humans, and you are using more than 10% of your brain. The thing that throws me off is the stereotypical claims similar to "x-men" powers. Not only are you psychic (which i doubt) but you interfere with electricity.


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make a video and i'll take it back

Hi Terry, and welcome to the forum!

It's called "Street Light Interference" or SLI for short. People who possess this ability are known as "SLIders". SLIders can also affect incandescent lights, as well as other electrical and electronic, and sometimes mechanical, devices and equipment. This phenomena was once blamed on gremlins and ghosts, as in having a "ghost in the machine". SLIders was also the name for a TV series, although this kind of SLIding had nothing to do with the show's theme.

One should always bare in mind that street lights, whether they are mercury or sodium vapor, have ballasts that periodically go bad. They often overheat, causing the lamp to turn off, and then come back on after they have cooled down. Bad ballasts are normally not replaced until they completely fail or another problem requires the presence of an on-site repair crew.

If you want to check the condition of a ballast, use your watch to time how long a street light stays off, and then time it for how long it stays on. If it continues to cycle off and on for the same lengths of time, it's a bad ballast. You can also replace bad incandescent bulbs with higher voltage bulbs (e.g., 130 volt) or with fluorescent bulbs. I replaced all mine with fluorescent.

I wasn't a SLI believer until I had worked as a computer lab assistant in college. Certain students would consistently cause their computers to lock up or crash, regardless of the computers that they had used for any given day.

Steve

Omg, that's the ultimate proof!

Seriously though, electronics are notoriously unreliable, especially computers because they don't rely only on the hardware, but the software.

Regular lightbulbs burn out eventually, even if they are used under perfect conditions. Combine that with electrical problems or particularily cheap bulbs, and you will be replacing them all the time.

The mere presence of a person can't affect the chance of a bulb blowing, they would have to be playing around with the electric systems to make it happen.

Thanks for the insight, but you would've had to have been there, like maybe one of the many eye-witnesses (i.e., instructors, students, other lab assistants).

SLI is not an appropriate term for this phenomenon and is often misleading. It encompasses much more than just street lights. Gremlins, ghosts, and poltergeists have taken the blaim for this phenomenon for centuries. Human emotion, especially in young adults, can and have affected man-made objects. Directly or indirectly, human emotions, mostly negative, seem to extend outward, possibly via our auras, to affect anything from a pencil to a combine harvester.

Hematite (iron oxide) is believed to be an excellent mineral for absorbing negativity. On two separate occasions, I have had hematite rings literally explode off my finger.




http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa012400a.htm

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

That's weird, didn't electricity come into general public use in the late 19th century?


Emotions are complex sets of electrochemical phenomenon in the brain. They don't "extend outwards". Auras (in the supernatural context) don't exist.

Could you explain what kind of effects emotions can have on pencils or combine harvesters?


"Negativity" is a state of mind, an idea. It can't be absorbed.


Hematite is very brittle. It's no wonder that your rings broke.

But if you still claim that what you say is true, you should definitely go to the James Randi Educational Foundation for the million bucks.


Ok, I'll also jump off a big building and attempt to fly!


That site is amazingly bias and unreliable, desperately seeking random scraps of info to support their claims, sort of like religion.


You have to realize how absurd it is to think that the mind can produce electricity, get it out of the head, into the insulated wires and blow electrical equipment. Or, in the case of the computers, reprogram software to create a bug, which crashes the system. And all that without leaving a scrap of evidence.

By not taking sentences out of context, you would have discovered that I was talking about man-made objects.

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Human emotion, especially in young adults, can and have affected man-made objects.

Actually, I never made any claims that the brain or electo-chemical phenomenon was responsible. Auras, in the paranormal sense, do exist and have been photographed using Kirlian photography.

Pencils are often dropped or fly out of the hand, and they will sometimes roll off table tops by themselves. A farmer, who had a bad disposition, was unable to repair his farm equipment. His tractors and combine were constantly breaking down for no apparant reason.

Negativity affects people, objects, and events. Some are more prone to its effects than others. The conscious mind is a very powerful instrument. Meditation and prayer are often used to change them. Surely, you have encountered, or at least suspected, how negative thinking can change your environment.

Hematite has a hardness of about 5.5 and is fairly strong in round or circular shapes. If you slam your hand against a hard surface, the ring will break. However, the rings that I was wearing did not come into contact with any surface, other than my own finger, when they broke. The first one broke while having a discussion with a coworker, who was very angry about something at work. The second one broke while I was thinking about a terrible rumor that I had just heard concerning my girlfriend.

I've heard about this, but I wouldn't be a good candidate for forcing rings to break. Unlike some people, I'm not negative enough. Besides, I wouldn't do it for the money.

I assume from this remark that you have no desire to try and understand the SLI phenomenon. Oh well, to each his own, I guess.

I think that this subject would better serve the "Metaphysics, Astrology & Psychic Phenomena" forum. Maybe one of the moderators could move it there. I, for one, would like to hear from Terry (quietsound), the original poster of this topic, that is, if she hasn't abandoned us completely.

Mmm

Do you have a pacemaker?
Are there pylons in the area?
How about a radio transmitter?
Does it happen when you walk past wearing differant types of shoes?
Do you often get electric shocks?
Do you cause interference on tv's?

A positive mindset and a negative one alter the cause of reality

Thought Experiment
Your football team has a 50% chance of winning. If you get somebody to print off all the negative infomation about the other team and give it you it raises the probability your team will win. Sure there may be positive and negative stuff about your team, but without knowledge of this it to behaves as a probability. So you have increased the chances your team will win.

See positive thinks when you look.

A manmade object isn't at any molecular, chemical or physical level any different than a natural object.
That's the scientific sense. It's just an electromagnetic field. Just about everything has an electromagnetic field. Not paranormal in any way whatsoever.


Pencils don't roll off tabletops or fly by themselves. They just don't. Ever. Because they need an application of energy to move, and negativity isn't energy.

And you really need more than an alledged farmer with alledged technical problems to prove something as revolutionary as this. Come on, that's pathetic.
A negative person is obviously affected by their own negativity, and the negativity of others (but only if the others are able to express their negativity to the person in question). Negativity, being a state of mind, has absolutely no effect whatsoever on independent objects or events.
My own negative thinking of course affects my own (psychological) environment. And so might the negativity of others - but only if they express their negativity somehow.

You must realize the absurdity of your statement. You are suggesting that negativity, which is just a state of mind, somehow is "absorbed" into a ring, where it proceeds to shift the lattice structure of the hematite out of place. That is just impossible on all levels.

The molecular structure of hematite is similar to that of glass - even small cracks compromise it's structural integrity greatly, and when a stress is applied to a cracked ring of hematite, the structure shatters almost instantly because it's not at all malleable, and because of how chrystaline structures work.
You claim that it's happened to you, why not give it a shot? Everyone would like a million dollars - if not you, then maby a charity organization?

Those are my exact thoughts about your behaviour.

That's called morale, and it doesn't affect objects in any way.

you could be a natural pyscic technokinetic(ability to affect electricty) with the mind...

Or not.

Here's a 1993 assessment of the SLI effect performed by the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena in a 55-page booklet, which can be downloaded for free.

http://www.assap.org/newsite/Docs/sli.pdf

They mention all the different parts of street lights, but they fail to mention ballasts. Even though a friend of one subject stated that some street lights have "rest periods", no one from the scientific team bothered to follow up on it. At the very least, it should have rang a bell.

Another possible phenomenon that was mentioned is "synchronicity". If you are not affecting these lights, consciously or subconsciously, then the reason may be synchronicity, which is a whole different ball game.

I've heard of this and I saw a show on 20/20 or 60 minutes or The Learning Channel about it.
They actually had footage of it happening, the streetlights going off when the person walked by.
I'll see if I can find more on it.

this seems to be interesting

i can say aura exist cause i can see it sometimes

psychokinesis uses energies and aura is also energy and as far as i know there are also electromagnetic energies flowing through our body

maybe this what cause to do such things in electronics

and good thing there is wombat to balance maybe some of you guyz know something and can explain it, but remember not all things we know are correct, some theories can be prove to be wrong, people usually doesn't know that they are already wrong, maybe what other says which we thinks wrong is actually correct, so the good thing is there is someone to balance

Thats another myth.. you dont use 10% of your brain, you use most of your brain, at some time or other... if you didnt the dentrites would die and find new pathways for something that would be used.

Would a more mundane explanation be that they were just inept with computers and cause them to crash/lock because they were being used in a challenging way ?

Terry - welcome to the group!

This really has NOTHING to do w/being "psychic" - "telekenitic" - "Psionic" or anything else in that focal point.

I cannot be around a lot of electrictrical stuff to long either.

My son and I cannot wear battery operated watches. According to our doctor, "we absorb the 'energy'" Basically a new battery in a watch will last about 3-4 weeks (sometimes a lot less depending on our level of activity.) More active quicker they die, less active they would last a little longer.

I cannot wear any jewlery at all - in that it will cause serious discoloration and even sometimes 'burn' me. What I feel when I wear jewlry at times is 'electrical shock/energy' and they can get physically hot also. Doctor said this is from my bodies 'EM energy' not body heat. It's hotter then my body temp.

Computer monitors, I burn them out at a rate of 2-3 a year. Talk about expensive! I just in fact bought a new LCD monitor. Will be curious how this holds up.

Desk lamps both kinds of light - Flor / Inc. burn out in matters of days when I sit next to them too long.

Basically it has to do w/your bodies natural EMF (Electro Magnetic Freq/Field) and nothing to do w/your mind. It's a body thing, in that you can be asleep and this still likely would happen - though more at a lower level because you are, well asleep.

My doctor was not surprised by this because one of his brothers and a sister have this 'issue' too. It can be very frustrating - not to mention pricey.

I would go have your doctor check this out. There are some "toys" out there that are suppose to help "ground" you literally. I've had little results w/them - but other have had some results w/them.

Hope this helps.... no not fun - but 'it is what it is...'

In the study of paranormal there is a phenomenon commonly refered to as "battery drain". It is thought to happen due to the presence of ghosts pulling energy out of batteries and electrical appliances when they are trying to manifest. At the same time they might be pulling energy out of people present there, and the people would then report sudden weakness and a sensation of feeling drained, not unlike what Terry is describing. I wonder if she is by being a psychic is willingly or unwillingly attracting certain spirits, and they are trying to make themselves known to her by pulling the energy out of the electric sources and/or from Terry herself.
One way to check for it would be to ask them to blink the lights in some kind of pattern. Such as for example: blink once for 'yes', and twice for 'no'. Or put a fully charged battery (such as a camera battery, for example) and later see how much power it still has without any regular use. If the battery loses charge too quickly, it may indicate this type of phenomenon.
Hope this helps,
-Victoria