Street Lights..
 

For years, when I have walked under streetlights... they go out... only to come back on again as I get further away.... not every one, but I would guess 1 out of every 3 or 4...

I also cannot wear an analog watch... I have tried expensive ones (got chastised for taking the back off and bending the internals... until I pointed out to the jeweller that the only scratch mark on the case was the one he just made...) although it's OK because I'm never more than 10 minutes out when someone asks me what time it is... cheap ones just stop working sooner... digital watches? I have to change the battery about once every three weeks... so I just don't wear one at all... and I'm *never* late... 8-)

I am also very intuitive... I won't go so far as to say I'm psychic... but I freak my friends out a LOT by doing or saying something that relates very strongly to what they are thinking, or of things that are going on in their lives...

anyone else?

"I am also very intuitive... I won't go so far as to say I'm psychic... but I freak my friends out a LOT by doing or saying something that relates very strongly to what they are thinking, or of things that are going on in their lives..."

I feel ya there. There have been times that I've heard what people were thinking (and some people laugh when i say that...but i have a few people -like my mother and my fiance- that wouldn't laugh about it)

Just a question, wouldn't that mess up your computer at all?

I have the same problem with street lights. Weird.

The thing about street lights is that usually each individual light has a luminance sensor to detect when the light should come on. If you put a bright or reflective object under a street light, you can sometimes fool it into thinking that the sun is rising.

For example, the other year my mom and I were trying to navigate through a strange city at night. The map light wasn't working in our car, so we stopped under a street light. The light went out pretty much right away, so we drove to the next one. That one went out too, and at the same time the previous one turned on again. It was quite frustrating.

These days when it happens as I'm walking I just figure it must be my bald head reflecting the light back into the sensor. ;)

Re: Street Lights..
 

I kill many analog watches as well; the second hand starts going back and forth rather than forward.

I also cause a lot of static on our baby monitor, depending upon where I stand. Much more than anyone else in the house. It worries my wife.

Whenever im walkin home no matter what time, 10:30 pm or 2am, right when i get to this one light right by my house, it flickers and then goes out. I expect it, but still scares the shit outta me, its not a busy as neighbourhood either, so its always just dead quiet

I don't know what it is... the TV suddenly goes off, or volume goes way up or down when I walk past sometimes too...

I always ground myself before I get anywhere near this thing (although it's still hit and miss... and guess what I do for a livinng!!!)

... I was known as the Data Killer in college... 8-)

Must be my magnetic personality... <GRIN>

"I am also very intuitive... I won't go so far as to say I'm psychic... but I freak my friends out a LOT by doing or saying something that relates very strongly to what they are thinking, or of things that are going on in their lives..."

Yeah me too. Except that its a proven fact that streetlamps/mirrors/any electrical appliances break beyond repair 'cause of me face... :(

Oooh, me too. Actually, I've been noticing that for about 10 years now (wow, that just made me feel old). Sometimes when I'm driving, sometimes on the bike, sometimes just walking. I once lived in an apartment (three storey walkup, so I could see the streetlight at almost eye level) where the one streetlight in front of my window would flicker madly. Ahh, the dangers of an idle mind!

I kinda have the same effect, but it's slightly different. Lights don't get turned off by my presence ... women do. I'm not sure what it is either.

I'm wondering if there is anything you all do that is similar to cause lights to react this way? Do you all live in a certain, similar areas (dry, wet, powerlines, etc.)? Have you witnessed this affect happen to other people?

This fascinates me.

just a thought about the lights, try thinking really hard on turning one on or off from about 10 feet away and see if you are able to!
the odd time lights turn off for me weather im walking or driving or riding bikes, not alot but i would say 1 or 2 a night

You know, my French teacher told me that she can't wear watches because the batteries just stop working. I told her she just must have a magnetic personality, then! :)

In high school we used to shine spotlights on them to make them go out :)

The thing about streetlights is that you only notice when they go out, not when they stay on, so I wouldn't be too quick to attribute anything spooky or consistently unusual to that. ;)

yeah the same thing happens to me too... I've always wondered about that.
Seems like the electrical currents in us are abnormal and can cause interference with some circuitry. Maybe the street lights are somehow very sensitive to that.
It would be interesting to find someone who claims to see 'auras' and see what they have to say, or design some circuitry similar to street lamps and see if it's possible to affect it.
Also, I can move energy wheels just by focusing on them. Google them if you don't know what they are. I wonder if the rest of you who affect street lamps/watches are also able to move energy wheels, because most people I've found can't.

word..i didn't even know there was an old thread about this..

PUh-Sigh-Kick?

The truth about me:

I have Deja' Vu multiple times daily. I have dreams that "show" me things, some life saving, some heart breaking.

I HAVE seen a ghost, and continued to see him for over 15 minutes when others could not (in one of Tombstone's abandoned mines).

I had an "odd" feeling all day one day, only to go home from school and be told by my father that my grandmother had passed away.

I have a 70-88% range of accuracy on prediction tests with Zenner cards (the cards are the ones you will see with a circle, wavy lines, star, etc. on them).

I once met a person online, random chat, and after only a few moments (and him joking about my psychic ability) I began to tell him what he was doing at that moment, what kind of house he lived him, color car(s) he drove, whom he lived with (not his parents but Aunt and Uncle) and what color shirt he was wearing. No web cam, I didn't know him and he didn't know me. He was so shocked. He swore I knew him. I showed him my picture in my profile and gave him my email address...he told him I freaked him out and never spoke to me again.

Frighteningly true.
 

Is it Jen-Et-Ick?

The truth about my Dad:

THE STORY:
(a bit lengthy)

The Night before my Dad was to pick me up from my (maternal) grandparents' house (Paso Robles, CA; he had been granted custody of me) when I had just turned 4 years old, my dad and his best friend, Tom (who was considered closer than a brother, very tight friendship) were laying on top of the car, looking up at the sky and as they are enjoying relaxing out in the middle of no where on a nice night, they see a shooting star go traveling across the sky...
As they both watched it, it broke off into two pieces, falling in two different directions...my dad watched one piece in one direction, Tom watched the other in the opposite direction, until they both burned out (Tom's first, then my Dad's a few moment's later)...the next day, Dad picked me up and we went to live in our other house (Duarte, California)...
Around 3 Years pass, and through mail and phone they kept in contact but my Dad and Tom didn't see eachother much after that night (maybe once to three times) because Dad works and life just keeps them both busy...one night, Dad goes to sleep and dreams he is in the car with his best friend, AC/DC's album "Back in Black" is playing in the stereo, beginning on the song "Hells Bells"...'wow' he thinks, 'how cool! I get to hang out with Tom'...a little bit later in the dream he notices Tom's drifting off...there's a curve in the road and straight ahead is a huge Oak tree...dad reaches over to turn the steering wheel and it won't budge...Tom's passed out asleep...they crash into the trunk of the Huge Oak...the car crashed on the passenger side...Dad wakes up in a panic and tries to shake it off...
A few days later, my (paternal) grandparents come home from Paso Robles and tell my dad they heard something but that Dad needed to call up there to see what was going on (the answering machine messed up on the message left for him) and he receives the news that Tom died...from a car crash...he fell asleep at the wheel...
When my dad talked to Tom's brother he told him about the dream...Tom's brother said that the car crashed on the passenger side and he took the tape out of the deck...it was AC/DC and the album was Back in Black...the song the it had been playing...Hell's Bells...

*This story is copyrighted and ownership can be proven, please do not consider, or support plagarism!*

That's pretty amazing Amnesia620... both your story and your dad's...

Neither are told often from me. My dad has retold the story to some of my friends, it's never changed. My dad and I have a pretty tight "bond" in that sense...perhaps it can be inherited? I am who I am and I know I'm a success within myself...as bizarre as I may appear to skeptics...

I've been noticing the same thing for about 4 years now. I always count the lights I walk under and whether or not they go out. On my college campus, I had about an 65-70% of turning the street light off. Very odd.

I can outright kill FM radio reception. I don't know why. All the radios in my room have to have long antennas pushed out my windows. Equally odd.

Sometimes I'll have an idea of a shape or a color only moments before it appears (split second). Like, for some reason, I can always predict a Hardees commercial on the TV by saying "star!". Freaks my folks out when only half a second later the Hardees star appears.

My only real demonstratable claim to fame is that I can usually match you 10+ times in Rock, Paper, Scissors shoots.

Hate to be a party pooper, but consider the following:

What do you suppose those streetlights do when you're not walking under them?.. They turn on and off. Some streetlights have a tendency to turn off from time to time. There's nothing unusual about it.

What's unusual is that you don't notice the 100 other times that night that the light turned off. You notice that it turned off the time you walked under it.

The fact that you walked under it did not "cause" it to turn off. It turned off when you happened to be walking under it. It happens to everyone. And it happens when nobody is walking under it, too.