Any Sliders out there?

[Greg44]

Okay, seems we don't have a forum entitled "Twilight Zone" I decided to post here.
Apparently I am not the only strange person out there that notices that street lights shut off when I walk under them.

We have been dupped "Sliders" - Street Light Interference...

When I run in early morning darkness, I can tell you what street lights will shut off when I pass under them.

I thought this was crazy, but others have noticed this same phenomenon - and quite frankly -- this is my coming out...not wanting to be considered a complete wacko I haven't shared the Slider effect to anyone! But this a.m. it was just crazy, the same 3 lights on my route went out!

Any Sliders out there or other phenomenons you have experienced you want to share? The unexplained, UFO's, ghosts, moving objects, etc etc. :0!

[Stella]

Funny! No, that doesn't happen to me but I do have a friend who seems to have a strange influence on electronics around her. She finds it frustrating because she can't even get an alarm clock to work right, no matter what she has done. Everyone she buys shorts out in a matter of a day or two. TVs in other people's houses will work oddly when she is around and radios go crazy. It's very odd.

[Spartana]

It must be your "magnetic" personallity Greg :-)! Actually I have noticed that on my morning runs also and wondered if it was some kind of sensor that shut the lights off just at the time I was running under them. Do the lights come back on after you are past them?

The only other "wierd" experiences I have on a very regular basis is this: I will read something, watch something or hear something and for some reason will focus on it more than other things I am reading, watching or hearing. Then, within a short period of time - usually less than an hour - I will hear or see that exact same thing somewhere else. And I mean the exact same thing. For instance, the other night I was reading a Stehpen King book and one of the songs he referenced in it was that old cajun "Me-Oh, My-Oh. We gonna have a good time on the Bay-o" song. Less then an hour later I got in my car and turned on the radio and that song was on. Freaky! Another time recently, I was sitting at my diner table eating, TV off and reading a world history book. I was focused on the name of the Vietnamese imperial city (Weh) which I had never heard of before. read some of the history while I ate. After I finished eating I turned on the TV and Jeopardy was on. The question (answer) on the board was "It is the ancient imperial capital of Vietnam". mega-freaky. Anyways, that kind of wierd coincidence happens all the time.

[Greg44]

Spartana -- I thought of sensors also - but there doesn't seem to be any and I had one in the grocery store parking lot do the same thing - all the time. I watched to see if it happened to any one else - notta. Very strange.

I have had similar experiences with you - except with new words. I will see a new word I have never noticed before - learn it and suddenly boom I see it all over the place. It was not like I was skipping over it in the past...!

[JaneV2.0]

I'm always reading a word or phrase while simultaneously hearing it on radio or TV--and not just words like "Kardashian" or "tax cuts" that are in the media every five minutes. Also, when I used to play with tube-type communications gear for a living, there was an adjustment I could never make because you were supposed to make the adjustment, then back it off just until the sensitivity didn't pick up any residual magnetism or something and I could never get it to stop registering. Magnetic me.

[Sad Eyed Lady]

I have had similar experiences with you - except with new words. I will see a new word I have never noticed before - learn it and suddenly boom I see it all over the place. It was not like I was skipping over it in the past...!

Now that I have experienced, over and over. A word that, to my knowledge, I had never heard before, them BOOM - it's everywhere. Not a new word coming into vogue, just new to me and then I see/hear it everywhere.

BTW Gregg44, I love this thread. Maybe we should invent a Twilight Zone thread, I'm sure there are many of us who experience things out of the norm and it would be fun to share those.

[CathyA]

Hey Gregg.....maybe you look up at the lights and the reflection of light off your glasses makes the sensor think its the sun coming up? :)
Sometimes I will be talking to someone (or myself) while watching TV, and someone on the TV will say exactly the same word/phrase I'm saying at the exact same time that I'm saying it! I know that isn't very weird, but that's all I got. :)

[iris lily]

Back when I was walking a lot at night I saw street lights regularly flicker on and off. I didn't notice that it was particular ones, and I never thought that I had the power to cause that effect. Never occurred to me.

[herbgeek]

I don't have electrical issues per se, but I can usually tell who is on the phone when its ringing. Not always the person per se, but whether it is family vs. outsider. I always seem to know when its my mother-in-law, I have like 95 percent accuracy on that one. Weird.

When I was a kid, I could tell you the next song that would play on the radio, I was about 70 percent accurate on that one, that was a top 40 station so there was a limited selection. :)

[citrine]

I have that happen with street lights all the time....it was freaky in the beginning...now I like to pick out the one that will go out!

[early morning]

My car does that to certain street lights - and herbgeek, I almost always know who's calling on the phone also. Why pay for caller ID? ;) Sometimes I've made a weird connection to people - not the same people, and not just close family/friends, and I just know, somehow, about something that is happening to/with them. It's not ongoing, and it's not always something important. Like once, I was sitting in class with a buddy (only knew him from class, no other contact) and something just sort of hit me and I said "who is Theresa, and why is she crying in your apartment??" He said "Theresa's my girlfriend, and she's not in my apartment, she's at work!" - but he called her between classes and she was indeed at his apartment crying, because her mother had just been taken to the hospital, several states away and she couldn't find a way to get to her, so she was waiting until he got home to help. Very strange. Anyway, that's my freaky story. I'd like to be able to turn dusk-to-dawn lights off, though - especially our neighbors! I really don't like those things. Put a switch on it and turn it on when you want to see, for crying out loud!

[Gregg]

I like to turn them off (with my mind) as the neighbors walk under them. Really freaks them out.

[Greg44]

I think I shared this on the previous forum, but my pickup's mileage turned to our birthday ON OUR (My wife and I share the exact same birthdate) BIRTHDAY...

Month - Day - Year! It was very freaky -- I took a picture of it to document it!

[pony mom]

I've always noticed streetlights going on and off when I pass them. When I would walk my dog at night or early in the morning, we'd get within a certain distance and the lights would go on or off, one after the other. Years ago there was a streetlight on a road I would travel often, and I would see other cars and trucks drive past it and nothing would happen; I would drive by and it would go off. My headlights weren't shining too high either.

Just one of my superpowers.

[Greg44]

Wow - a lot of SLIDERS in this group...nice to know I am not the only one!

[Mrs-M]

What a neat thread this is! Till this thread was posted, I had never heard of the term "sliders" before.

[Nella]

Greg, the light thing happens to me all the time, too! I've always thought something weird was going on, but never had the courage to say anything to anyone. I'm sure they'd think I was totally bonkers! Okay, so there must be some logical explanation, but it's fun to think I have supernatural powers.

Also, my friends and I play the "elevator game." You know, which elevator will arrive first to take us downstairs. I'm right about 90% of the time, regardless of how many cars there are. Two cars to six cars, I usually get it right. Fun stuff!

[pcooley]

I've noticed that happening all my life. It's not consistent, but it's happened frequently enough for me to notice. It happened a couple of weeks ago. I've never heard any explanation for it.