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Posted: 15-08-2001 16:04 Post subject: Street Light Interference

I live in central London. I have to say that what I am about to report has not happened to me for ages now, but about five years ago it was happening all the time, and people were very dismissive (except a few who were with me when it happened)...

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Posted: 21-08-2001 13:01 Post subject:

There are two seperate versions of this.

1- A specific person affects all lights.
2- A light is affected by everybody.

A light near where I live used to go out whenever somebody walked underneath it.
It only started after workmen had completed a job there. Some of these cases can be put down to bad workmanship, but others?

Does anyone know how much electricity a body needs to absorb to cause a street light to turn off?

Has anyone who causes this to happen ever tried done so whist wearing thick rubber soled shoes?

Posted: 21-08-2001 15:09 Post subject: Rogue

Posted: 26-08-2001 14:13 Post subject: Streetlight puzzle

As a keen jogger I have had this happen to me on a number of occasions while running at night north of Bury, Lancashire.
It has happened when running past two lamps in particular on both occasions I was on the opposite side of the road from the lights which would flash off and not come back on.
Both the lamps that I have experienced the phenomena with were in semi-rural areas away from major housing estates or trunk roads.
I know I'm not exactly light on my feet for a marathon runner but I didn't think I was capable of such vibrations that could knock out an electrical connection! confused

Posted: 27-08-2001 00:58 Post subject:

1. Don't know about other parts of the country, but locally, while some streetlights appear to have sensors, others appear to be 'slaved' to either the light with the sensor or to a central switch - a whole street-full without sensors will switch on virtually simultaneously.

2. When I were but a lad, the streetlights where my folks still live were rather basic - forget sodium lamps, these had 60 watt bulbs. Kicking a streetlight would set up enough vibration (by the time it reached the top) to blow the bulb (and I was about 8 or 9 when I discovered this, so a heavy adult walking by may have had a similar effect). Does this work with modern lighting? (I know an easy way to find out, but I'm no longer a young vandal!!)

3. There's a book that I've read (I was sure it was by Tom Holt, but I can't find it..... Help!) that features fading/dying streetlights, caused by a severely pissed-off Thor, as I recall. Never mind, Holt's books are worth reading anyway!

Posted: 28-08-2001 00:27 Post subject: Street light interference

Can the power of thought affect streetlights??

Well, a strange thing happened to me about a week ago. I was watching a thunderstorm (which was in the distance) from my window at about 1am. I just casually thought "oh, I wish that street light would go out" (because it was right in my line of sight where the lightning was happening) and hey presto it did!!
OK, you may say,perhaps a lightning strike caused a power failure but the electric was still on in the house and other street lights were still on further down the street. It was just that particular one that went out. I noticed that it came back on again too later in the night. Has anyone experienced anything similar???

Posted: 28-08-2001 12:08 Post subject:

the streetlights thing was douglas adams (I think it was long dark teatime of the soul)

I used to believe that I could make lights go out, and also that I knew a special code that you could tap into pedestrian crossings to turn them on!

This stuff must relate to those people who can make hoovers explode and watches break. Something to do with the bodies magnetic field? After all there's a lot of electrical activity in the body.

Posted: 29-08-2001 14:38 Post subject:

Why streetlights, though? Surely traffic lights would be more useful...

Posted: 29-08-2001 15:59 Post subject:

Ahh, that's another story entirely...but probably one that would end me up in prison Wink

Posted: 30-08-2001 13:06 Post subject:

Has anybody tried doing this at the Blackpool Illuminations?

Posted: 03-09-2001 07:31 Post subject:

I had noticed a similar thing with a couple of friends of mine a few years back. They were a homosexual couple who had recently come out of the closet - and when they were walking down the street, the street lamps would go off with rather annoying regularity - and come on a few minutes later.

As a young bloke we rattled them as well, I do think they have some sort of protective mechanism that switches them off when rattled, and then they come on again - maybe somehow strong emotions can set off the mechanism?? Who knows? It would be interesting though to hear from someone knowing about the internal set up of these lamps.

Posted: 06-09-2001 22:09 Post subject:

i have to agree with the hightened emotion theory. for about 10 months a while ago i had many streetlights in Bristol going off when i walked underneath them. this was definately a real phenomena as i was aware of the possibility of coincidence. the effect was observed by several of my friends also. i was at a very emotional and mind bending time. the effect didnt seem to happen any where else except in Bristol. When i moved away the effect stopped and only happens now on rare occasions that could be put down to random events... whatever that may mean!!!!!!! Surprised

Posted: 11-09-2001 10:51 Post subject:

I too have a weird effect on streetlights, however it is not an isolated case of electrical interference, as I also cannot carry computer floppy discs on my person without causing them to corrupt beyond repair,

and was frequently asked to remove myself from the lab during experiments, when I was at university, requiring use of extremely sensitive electrical equipment, as I tended to produce extremely strange results, as the graphs would go off the charts.

The street light aspect only ever seems to occur however if I am very upset or angry about something, altho watching the faces of my previously skeptical friends always cheers me up to a degree, I have been known to do up to 4/5 in a row along a street if things are really bad.

do other people also have an effect on other electrical equipment?

Posted: 11-09-2001 12:26 Post subject:

Hmm, that does sound interesting. Perhaps you should also try to see if you can do telekinesis, some claim it has to do with the body´s EM-field.

And get a smoke detector, apparently people like you can cause fires unwillingly Smile

Posted: 11-09-2001 12:29 Post subject:

great excuse for not doing any housework(exploding hoovers anyone?), work with computers (I used to stroke mine to make it work!), etc, red! Downside I guess is not being able to travel by plane Wink