Lights turning off...

faceman

I know simliar threads have talked about this phenomenon before but i deffo a bizarre story from last nite.

Sitting in the sitting room with herself watching telly. The lamp was on beside the sofa to my right. (About 2ft away) The light is operated by a wall dimmer switch the other end of the room. Only the 2 of us in the room at the time.

Before i go on it must be pointed out that the lamp has in the past been odd. sometime when you turn it on it turns off instantly and it takes a few attempts before it stays on. this only happens occasionally and i dont for a second think its supernatural! However this has never happened before...

We were debating a topic and the missus said something much annoyed me and got under my skin so i raised my voice slightly and made a firm (but angry in tone) statement. Mid sentence the light switched itself off. I had to walk the other end of the room to turn it on again.

Its never done that before. The only explanation i think of is the elevated negative emotive state i was in somehow emitted an energy that interfered with the lamp.

I tried to recreate it since but my emotive state hasnt obviously being genuine. Very strange

Duff

Just sounds like a dodgy lamp to me tbh..

faceman

^ marvelous insight, great post

Oryx

Well, everyone can have an opinion.;) Perhaps saxoduff is just concise by nature!

My 2c..... Yes it could be a dodgy switch on the lamp, especially as you say it has been hard to switch it on. But there are other theories which say that human emotion can affect electronic equipment. I dont have any links because its only something I have anecdotally heard of. I have heard stories of computers crashing because their users are getting wound up .

As with all of this kind of thing, its impossible to say either way. Unless the lamp repeats the trick, and you can get a better idea what the influence was. (Not to say you should be arguing with your missus or anything!)

Zillah

faceman wrote:

^ marvelous insight, great post

Well it is quite possible its just a dodgy lamp, no?

KatieK wrote:

I have heard stories of computers crashing because their users are getting wound up

Its happened me dozens of times that my PC/computer game will crash when I really should be doing something else. Like, if I have an essay I should be writing, or a bus to catch, but I'm just procrastinating, the PC will crash and make me get on to what I know I'm supposed to be doing. Its just that its happened so many times its a bit weird.

Oryx

You also hear stories (I think theres a thread here somewhere) about people who have light bulbs constantly blowing whereever they are.

(Maybe this kind of thing has a cause similar to people getting shocks off cars, I know my car has been killing me with shocks since March, but no one else gets any. Seems to only affect certain folk.)

stormkeeper

It happens a lot at uni, the PCs screwing up last-minute before a submission is due, so I think there could be something in it... either that, or it's a marvellous* coincidence!

Not marvellous in the good sense, rather a marvellous case of timing!

Oryx

Zillah wrote:

Its happened me dozens of times that my PC/computer game will crash when I really should be doing something else. Like, if I have an essay I should be writing, or a bus to catch, but I'm just procrastinating, the PC will crash and make me get on to what I know I'm supposed to be doing. Its just that its happened so many times its a bit weird.

You know, I think thats the ghost of your great-uncle Arthur reaching in over your shoulder and pressing ctrl/alt/delete;)

Duff

Wasnt trying to be smart by my earlier post, I was just being blunt, faceman said he has had touble with the lamp numerous times so to me it just sounds like a dodgy lamp!

faceman

Anyone who comes to this forum can tell tales of demons in their pyjamas runnin around the garden shed but when faceman tells his tale of spooky lamps from amityville, well everyone throws eggs! Poor faceman!
Are group hugs allowed in this forum???

Zillah

KatieK wrote:

You know, I think thats the ghost of your great-uncle Arthur reaching in over your shoulder and pressing ctrl/alt/delete;)

Strange that my Great Uncle Arthur would be so computer savvy...

faceman wrote:

Anyone who comes to this forum can tell tales of demons in their pyjamas runnin around the garden shed but when faceman tells his tale of spooky lamps from amityville, well everyone throws eggs! Poor faceman!
Are group hugs allowed in this forum???

That was hardly egg throwing...

Conar

KatieK wrote:

You also hear stories (I think theres a thread here somewhere) about people who have light bulbs constantly blowing whereever they are.

(Maybe this kind of thing has a cause similar to people getting shocks off cars, I know my car has been killing me with shocks since March, but no one else gets any. Seems to only affect certain folk.)

Try changing your shoes/runners.
Thick rubber soles can cause you to build up a static charge which is why you get a shock when you touch the car.
Static gets worse in the drier weather too which would explain why its started recently with the good weather.

Oryx

Conar wrote:

Try changing your shoes/runners.
Thick rubber soles can cause you to build up a static charge which is why you get a shock when you touch the car.
Static gets worse in the drier weather too which would explain why its started recently with the good weather.

Touching with the key also discharges, but I usually forget. And change these shoes? Never dahling.

Aisling&M

The same always happens when I touch the press the fax machine is on......so now I touch the block on paper first and then open the drawer....
have you tried touching the tire with your foot while opening the door?
kinda diverts it or something.

Cainer

KatieK wrote:

I have heard stories of computers crashing because their users are getting wound up .

I can back that theory up. I teach IT skills and i've found that if my students are having an exam and are nervous about it, you can be gaurenteed that that a one or two computers will hang or go a bit haywire. By the way the computers would normally work perfectly well on other occasions.

I've just taken it for granted that their emotions were emitting some sort of electro magnetic force that was interfering with the computer. It's just like when your phone is about to ring and it's beside the radio you get that noisy interference.

littlebug

A particularly sore static shock passed between me and my daughter one day as she was sitting on her slide in the garden and I leaned in for a hug. our heads were only about an inch away when it happened. My instinct when she said "ow" was of course to hug her but then another shock passed between us. Ow ow! I've had to stop wearing my (lovely) clumpy soled shoes I get so many shocks when I wear them.
I'm one of the people whose lightbulbs blow all the time. Another 3 this week though the upstairs landing one (energy saver) has miraculously starting working again when it wasn't working the night before last.
When I have a big work deadline and I make sure to hit "save" every couple of minutes because the pc is sure to crash .

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Zillah wrote:

my PC/computer game will crash when I really should be doing something else. Like, if I have an essay I should be writing, or a bus to catch, but I'm just procrastinating, the PC will crash and make me get on to what I know I'm supposed to be doing. Its just that its happened so many times its a bit weird.

do you update your anti-virus software? i work in IT, computers dont think for themselves. If what you are saying is true, it should know when you are going to use it, and be turned on and ready to go before you walk into the room

Zillah

Aurelia Faint Tattoo wrote:

do you update your anti-virus software? i work in IT, computers dont think for themselves. If what you are saying is true, it should know when you are going to use it, and be turned on and ready to go before you walk into the room

I'm not proposing that the computer is aware, you'd know that if you've seen my posts much before. I was simply making an observation that my PC has a statistically relevant habit of crashing at interesting times.

The most wacked out theory I'd consider is that I was using my vaunted psychic powers to subconciously shut it off when I need to be somewhere else