Electrical Discharge Mystery | |
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Rev. Star Gazer (OP) User ID: 170237 ![]() 12/16/2006 12:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i have that problem too,not as bad as yours girl. Quoting: Fire fly![]() WTF is it???? I've lived in drier climates than this and have never experianced anything like this. The past two days have been really bad. Not as extreme as that picture of the Pope but on a smaller scale - I literally see bolts like that coming out of my finger tips. Hey - I wonder if I could learn to control this and if it could be useful..... ![]() "The lunatic is on the grass The lunatic is on the grass Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs Got to keep the loonies on the path..." |
Rev. Star Gazer (OP) User ID: 170237 ![]() 12/16/2006 12:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So, Fire Fly, you and I seem to be the only ones experiancing this. And no brilliant scientific minds available to offer their educated guesses????? "The lunatic is on the grass The lunatic is on the grass Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs Got to keep the loonies on the path..." |
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Rev. Star Gazer (OP) User ID: 170237 ![]() 12/16/2006 12:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm an electrical engineer, and what you claim is plausible.... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 170226Can you give more info? What kind of info? It's not just metal or things connected to electricity - like appliances or light switches. Glass, paper, wood, rubber - you name it - everything shocks me and not just little snap discharges. In the past, once you touch something and get zapped, the discharge is gone but for me now, I can get zapped 2 or 3 times in a row touching the same item. "The lunatic is on the grass The lunatic is on the grass Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs Got to keep the loonies on the path..." |
Rev. Star Gazer (OP) User ID: 170237 ![]() 12/16/2006 12:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm an electrical engineer, and what you claim is plausible.... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 170226Can you give more info? Do these things happen when you are barefoot? Or only when you wear certain shoes? Tell me more.. Barefoot, shoes, rubber soled, leather - doesn't seem to matter. ![]() "The lunatic is on the grass The lunatic is on the grass Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs Got to keep the loonies on the path..." |
RythymRing User ID: 170243 ![]() 12/16/2006 12:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don`t know, but be careful around computers, gas stoves, and people who fart. Sunny shit starter & stirrer, I shit the shit, My shit is stirred not shaken, Winner of the golden shit-stirrer award, Calling someone "a bit of a shit stirrer" in Ireland is usually a term of endearment rather than an insult. |
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Rev. Star Gazer (OP) User ID: 170237 ![]() 12/16/2006 12:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ![]() My son has had a different problem with electrical things - TVs and other electronics will turn on or off by him just getting near them. Is the world changing or are we? ![]() "The lunatic is on the grass The lunatic is on the grass Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs Got to keep the loonies on the path..." |
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Rev. Star Gazer (OP) User ID: 170237 ![]() 12/16/2006 01:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | <What changed when it first started happening?> My daughter was seriously injured in an accident and we relocated to California. You could say that's stress related!!!! "The lunatic is on the grass The lunatic is on the grass Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs Got to keep the loonies on the path..." |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 60359 ![]() 12/16/2006 01:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My experience is that people may pick up an electrostatic charge when they are moving around and if the conditions are right, like if it is extremely dry or if they are wearing something that charges up easily from their bodily movements. Could it be some common item of clothing that you are now wearing these days that you did not wear before that picks up a charge from your bodily movements? Like maybe a coat, or dress or pants or something? A coat might build up a charge just from the movement of your arms as the material rubs against itself... If it was the coat you could probably get some anti-static spray to use on it. Do you pick up a charge when you are nude (but not walking around in bare feet)? If not, then maybe that narrows the cause down. I Googled "anti static spray" and found this, but I haven't actually tried it myself as I don't need it right now.. [link to www.recipegoldmine.com] Anti-Static Spray recipe 1/4 cup commercial liquid fabric softener 1/4 cup ammonia 2 cups water Mix ingredients and store in a spray bottle. Spray liberally on the rug, your shoes, chair, desktop, or file cabinet, but do not spray directly onto your computer system |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 147920 ![]() 12/16/2006 01:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wear some shoes or boots with thick, non-conductive rubber soles. These can be found in any work clothes store or simply ask to a shoe store for these kinds of things. Electrical workers wear these to carry high-voltage cables without being electrocuted to death, so you try that and still have these weird issues, then it's far beyond me, and the Laws of Physics for that matter... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 147920 ![]() 12/16/2006 01:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | By the way, electricity is transmitted through contact with the ground, or through activation of electrical particles in the air. So if you cut any link you have with the ground, either with a good rubber sole, or... well, by being suspended in mid-air, it would not make sense that you,d have these statics problems. |
Mr. Predictor![]() Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 83143 ![]() 12/16/2006 02:08 AM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Electrical workers wear these to carry high-voltage cables without being electrocuted to death, Quoting: Anonymous Coward 147920they do not !!!! "If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be." - Brian Eno |
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Heya User ID: 162439 ![]() 12/16/2006 02:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You are positive energy , vibrating in a higher dimension ready to shift from 3D to a higher one therefore your energy centres or chakras are fully activated. [link to www.maitreya-edu.org] |
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Rev. Star Gazer (OP) User ID: 170274 ![]() 12/16/2006 03:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No carpet in the house. I have cloth car seats. ALL cars shock me - usually upon exiting and closing the door - ie. when I'm standing outside of it. When I do wear shoes in the house, they have rubber soles - otherwise I'm barefoot or have leather soled slippers. Happens more after I've been sitting down for awhile. Since it's winter and our house furnace is broken, I'm not inclined to run around the house naked so, I can't answer on that one. Thanks for the thoughts and ideas. The woo-woo in me leans more towards the built up stress theory and/or higher vibration/dimensional shift theory. ![]() "The lunatic is on the grass The lunatic is on the grass Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs Got to keep the loonies on the path..." |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 166546 ![]() 12/16/2006 04:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The potential energy between you and these objects exists due to a buildup of electrons(or lack there of) in either you or the objects in question. You see the end result, but you have not gone through any sort of reasonable scientific testing which would automagically dismiss YOU as being anything special. I suppose it would be a bit difficult to keep track of climate, environment and the changes in those which would result in these electrostatic discharges. But if you really though it was something special, you'd take the time to make note of variables which could and do lead to a buildup in electrostatic potentials. there is not any magic going on here, you just are not taking notice of what the causal factors are. |
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