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Subject Help! Why the hell to lights flicker around me?

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I'm a bit puzzled why the obvious answer to most of these observations is not discussed.  Or at least not ehere I've looked...

It's largely a simple perception issue.  Think about it - and bear in mind that I noticed this same effect last night as I was walking home (two occasions in about 3 km (2miles)).

Firstly bear in in that a lot of street lights use a type of light that, as they age, do NOT simply fail.  They start to turn off and on - they operate for a while, overheat, and then go out.  They then cool (usually it only takes a few minutes, sometimes it can be less than a minute), and then turn on again.  By standing there and watching, you can verify this effect.

Now, let's say that light is 2 hundred metres/yards away.  It goes out, but you were probably looking elsewhere.  Or if you were walking or driving you may see it go out but [b]because you are moving, everywhere around you lights go on and off as things OBSCURE them.[/b]  Trees/poles, other objects move in between them and you..  So you are (sub-consciously) used to this behaviour, and therefore your brain doesn't take notice of what *actually* happened.

However, when you get up close, you suddenly notice when the lamp turns on or off, because you are right there.

Initially when you see this happen, you might correctly think that it was just a faulty lamp, but as you see it happening more and more (and it *is* happening more and more as this type of light has become more common over the last ten years or so, and now many of them are getting old and flaky), you may start to think - "hey that must be ME causing it!".

[b]So, next time you see it happen, STOP.  Watch the light for several minutes, and see if it is doing what I say.[/b]  That's what I did to test the theory, and guess what.  It's NOT me causing it.

But I DO also see it happening, and it does seem like it is the observer's 'fault'.  In a way, it IS.
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Original Message I never believed this was a phenomenon until I caught someone asking the same question on a different forum before, and I just dismissed it.

Now I'm a firm believer. Wtf it this? It happens everywhere I go, when I'm driving down the highway to when I'm just walking down the street. It goes both ways as well, lights that are off will turn on and lights that are on will turn off.

And it almost always happens at least three times. The last time it happened while I was driving down the the highway, three lights in a row blinked out as I was approaching them, maybe 50 ft away, and when I got near the fourth consecutive street light, that was completely off, it turned full-on. WTF? These are very tall highway lights. I went to school for engineering and I KNOW there is no explanation for this.

When I'm walking down my street there is one particular light, in a row of lights, that goes from barely blinking to full on every time I pass it. Every single time. Whenever people are in front of me and walk by the light nothing happens, it's only when I get up to it that it turns on. WTF?

I've read that it's some energy b.s. that I'm giving off but I wonder if it's some kind of gaurdian angel? I don't know but all I can say is that it creeps me the hell out. Sometimes I can almost predict which light I'm going ot turn off or turn on.

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