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Posted: 11-06-2004 07:58 Post subject: Watch connection, indeed!

I was home on a break from university some years ago and tried out the "mind influencing pendulum" test with my dad. The pendulum is suspended between two people. Using thought only, one person tries to push the pendulum ini a circle; the other person attempts a back-and-forth motion. I was trying for clockwise and did get the pendulum to move, but after a few small circuits, the pendulum's path suddenly became a half circle followed by a completely linear motion, like so:
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My dad just laughed, although I found the incident rather creepy. My dad couldn't wear electronic watches at all. And, I seem to have a talent for boggling electronic cash registers if I stand too close to them.

Posted: 11-06-2004 10:06 Post subject:

You know how with some radios if you stand in a certain place in the room it's in it can broadcast interference? I wonder if it's the same thing with street lamps, but more specialised?

Posted: 11-06-2004 12:50 Post subject:

This used to be an area that had alot of coverage a few years back. Not read the thread mentioned by ringwraith yet but I remember that it used to be called sliding or rather people who did it were called SLIders (street light interference).
If you google slider street light there seems to be quite alot of bumf still on the net so your obviously not the only one.

Posted: 11-06-2004 16:54 Post subject: electric charge

When I was little, me and my family went to a science museum and they had an exhibit about the electric charge of the human body. There were two metal plates that you put your hands on and it would measure the electricity your body gave off (I was little though, I may be remembering this wrong). Everbody tried it and the needle would jump a little, not very exciting, but when my mom tried the needle flew way up. And I know that her mother couldn't wear wristwatches for the same reason.
Maybe you've got a high electricity level and it interferes with the light wiring.

Posted: 12-06-2004 00:00 Post subject: Re: electric charge

Posted: 29-07-2004 14:01 Post subject:

And Mark has just produced a piece on it in today's Grauniad:

Please excuse this newbie if my queries are redundant but I've reasonably searched past threads to no avail pertaining to what it is that currently tickles me gray matter ..... anyway:

Why is it that street lamps either turn on or off when I pass near them. I don't think it's a matter of timing or my travel schedule as this oddity does occur at random times and locations - Anyone else seem to have the ability to effect the electric in such a manner? confused

Posted: 17-03-2005 02:55 Post subject:

OK, I must reply to this because it happens to me a LOT and has for quite a few years now.

I can make certain street lights go out by driving under them. Skeptics say "Yes but they have sensors that cause them to go out." That may very well be true, but how do the sleptics explain it when i WALK by the lights and they go out?
Also, I have problems with any electrical parts on my vehicle, including the headlights. I constantly cause cars, stereos, and cell phones to go crazy or quit working altogether.

Most recently I have had a very horrible effect on the computer. My boyfriend is on the verge of telling me it is off limits to me because it works fine for him and I get the blue screen of death just by turning it on. I am not exaggerating.
Since I moved in with him, I have broken almost everything he owns simply by being near it.
Recently I have read that people who cause this to happen (SLIDERS) have an abnormally high amount of static electricity about them. This is definitely true in my case...i get alot of small electrical shocks quite frequently.

P.S. tonight after fixing my cell phone that I made go haywire because of my SLIDER-ness, my boyfriend made me de-magnetize myself before I turned the computer on!

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Posted: 17-03-2005 16:39 Post subject:

How did he do it? He made me touch a giant magnet that he has, then he made me touch something metal to "ground" myself.

Did it work? Computer is still on and I don't see the much-dreaded blue screen of death.

However, I only affect the computer MOST of the time, not 100 % of the time.( must depend on my level of static electrcity at the time). I will know if the magnet thing works for sure after several times of doing this.

I think "Static Guard" spray might work just as well.....

Posted: 10-04-2005 10:26 Post subject: Streetlight Weirdness

This used to happen to me all the time with a streetlight by my parents' house. It wuld turn off when I walked under it. If I returned later and walked under it again, it would turn back on. A friend of mine could do this with a streetlight by our high school. We affectionately referred to them as "our streetlights." I have walked past the one my friend could turn on and off and had it do the same thing for me, so I wonder if maybe those lights were just faulty. Weird all the same.

Posted: 10-04-2005 14:53 Post subject:

OMG, Redhead had me laughing, remembering what I did to my poor husband when he helped me put in my CD writer. Before he touched the computer, I rubbed him with a bunch of dryer sheets, and stuck them down his shirt, etc! Poor man!

He has this 'electrical' syndrome.... he gets shocked by cars the most. He would completely drain our cell phone when he took it, and I'm wondering if it wasn't wishful thinking, too, so I couldn't check up on him! Smile

Seriously, it would be fully charged, and he would come home 3 hours later, and it would be dead. And he hates to talk on phones, so no, he wasn't on it at all. I would take it to work with me, and it would stay charged for weeks.

PS... If you think you're 'electrical'... don't ever let an acupuncturist hook you up with a tens unit. The needles were fine, it's just when she hooked up the electrical unit ...whoa!

Posted: 11-04-2005 12:45 Post subject:

Update: Since implementing the ritual of touching the magnet and then touching the metal casing of the computer tower to demagnetize myself, the computer has given me much less trouble.
So maybe it works?

Also, I gave my son an electronic organizer and EVERY time I am in the room with it, it plays songs and won't stop. If I am not in the same room, it stays quiet.