Weird experience I just had

mrmorgan

Hi,

I just had an experience in my home. I went out to tne kitchen to get a drink and came back to the living room. When I went back again for another drink the light was off in there so I just thought I put it back off so I put it back on. When I went back a third time the light was off again. And I know 100% I didnt turn it off.

thisiswar

It's OK, you're just smoking too much weed.

maccored

Never mind the smartarses, or the posters that really believe they are being funny.

Theres obviously three options: 1) You did turn it off and didnt realise it (its amazing what we can do subconsciously without thinking), 2) You have an electrical fault 3) Its a ghost.

I'd say 3 is the most extremely unlikely, and unless these things happen quite a bit I dont think you;ll ever find out.

I had a werid experience myself the other day. I was out in my shed (its an old concrete one) and went to lock the door. It was about 2am and there was no-one up nor outside near the shed itself. I couldnt find the key - which was annoying as I always left the key in the lock. I looked about, check the door on both sides - no sign of the key. I went into the house for about 2 mins to see if there was a spare, couldnt find one, came back out and the key was in the lock. Same time, unless things like that happen quite a bit, im not too worried.

mrmorgan wrote: »

Hi,

I just had an experience in my home. I went out to tne kitchen to get a drink and came back to the living room. When I went back again for another drink the light was off in there so I just thought I put it back off so I put it back on. When I went back a third time the light was off again. And I know 100% I didnt turn it off.

MrMojoRisin

thisiswar wrote: »

It's OK, you're just smoking too much weed.

Is that what you do?

MrMojoRisin

It is possible to completely forget you had, in fact, switched off the light yourself. It's happened to me a few times before.

Same thing can happen to me in other scenarios - two days ago, I thought I had lost my credit card but then (after a bit of panic) I realised I had just put it in a pocket I wouldn't normally use.

But RE: the light in your house. If that happens continously over a fairly extended period of time, there might be more to it then.

thisiswar

MrMojoRisin wrote: »

Is that what you do?

Yup

SteelyDanJalapeno

Is there motion sensors OP?

UrbanSea

Or maybe the light was on a timer

SteelyDanJalapeno

Another potential OP, I don't know if you've seen the episode of friends or not,

but Pheobe finds a switch in her apartment thats she thinks doesnt do anything, But it does! it turns on and off her neighbours TV,

I wonder is there a switch in someone elses house that they think doesnt do anything but it is actually turning on and your kitchen light

Concerned.

mrmorgan

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Another potential OP, I don't know if you've seen the episode of friends or not,

but Pheobe finds a switch in her apartment thats she thinks doesnt do anything, But it does! it turns on and off her neighbours TV,

I wonder is there a switch in someone elses house that they think doesnt do anything but it is actually turning on and your kitchen light

Concerned.

Very funny like everyone and I serious

Tomk1

mrmorgan wrote: »

Hi,

I just had an experience in my home. I went out to tne kitchen to get a drink and came back to the living room. When I went back again for another drink the light was off in there so I just thought I put it back off so I put it back on. When I went back a third time the light was off again. And I know 100% I didnt turn it off.

Just wondering, you nelgected to say what the drink was, tea/coffee? (therefore switching on kettle) or a few drinky-drinks?

Also you didn't mention if you were alone in the house. Is the light switch a one-way or a two-way switch?

Just one more, after time often bathroom/kitchen light switches give trouble due to wet hands, water can seep into the contacts and corrode them, makeing them stick between the on/off position, maybe you can check the switch/ get someone to change the switch.

MrMojoRisin

thisiswar wrote: »

Yup

It shows.

mrmorgan

Tomk1 wrote: »

mrmorgan wrote: »

Hi,

I just had an experience in my home. I went out to tne kitchen to get a drink and came back to the living room. When I went back again for another drink the light was off in there so I just thought I put it back off so I put it back on. When I went back a third time the light was off again. And I know 100% I didnt turn it off.

Just wondering, you nelgected to say what the drink was, tea/coffee? (therefore switching on kettle) or a few drinky-drinks?

Also you didn't mention if you were alone in the house. Is the light switch a one-way or a two-way switch?

Just one more, after time often bathroom/kitchen light switches give trouble due to wet hands, water can seep into the contacts and corrode them, makeing them stick between the on/off position, maybe you can check the switch/ get someone to change the switch.

It was mi wadi so it's not the drink lol

vicwatson

Had the same experience.... weird

krd

maccored wrote: »

I had a werid experience myself the other day. I was out in my shed (its an old concrete one) and went to lock the door. It was about 2am and there was no-one up nor outside near the shed itself. I couldnt find the key - which was annoying as I always left the key in the lock. I looked about, check the door on both sides - no sign of the key. I went into the house for about 2 mins to see if there was a spare, couldnt find one, came back out and the key was in the lock. Same time, unless things like that happen quite a bit, im not too worried.

It was 2 am, there's a chance you may have been sleep walking.

Occasionally, when I get sleep paralysis on the rare occasions I do, I may do a little sleep walking - it's kind of annoying, because it can go on all night, and I feel exhausted the next day.

But I might do something like try to turn on a light switch and it won't come on - or I think it's on but it's off. I may be in bed, having a very vivid dream that seems very (but it isn't) or I may be sleep walking, where I'm not 100% awake or 100% asleep.

The first time I had the experience was very spooky. I "woke up" in the middle of the night - not feeling great, went downstairs. Every light I tried to turn on wouldn't come on - but as soon as I left a room, I'd notice light shining out of the room - so the lights very coming on. I was sleep walking - what I was seeing was a mixture of reality and dreaming.

maccored

i'll say one thing - sleep walking would have been a very strange thing to be doing before one has even gone to bed. Now that would be spooky.

krd wrote: »

It was 2 am, there's a chance you may have been sleep walking.

Occasionally, when I get sleep paralysis on the rare occasions I do, I may do a little sleep walking - it's kind of annoying, because it can go on all night, and I feel exhausted the next day.

But I might do something like try to turn on a light switch and it won't come on - or I think it's on but it's off. I may be in bed, having a very vivid dream that seems very (but it isn't) or I may be sleep walking, where I'm not 100% awake or 100% asleep.

The first time I had the experience was very spooky. I "woke up" in the middle of the night - not feeling great, went downstairs. Every light I tried to turn on wouldn't come on - but as soon as I left a room, I'd notice light shining out of the room - so the lights very coming on. I was sleep walking - what I was seeing was a mixture of reality and dreaming.

argosy2006

Was the actual switch off, or just the light, ?
if just the light then not that strange, i have a light that goes on and off, bulb holder is fecked,
But are u telling me the actual switch was push ?

johndaman66

Quite often I'd do something I'm used to doing without thinking about it. For example turning of the rings on the cooker after cooking dinner. I'd sit down to eat only to think, oh no I never turned off the rings and be pretty sure I didn't, go back to cooker only to realise I did in fact. Bit like OP's scenario in reverse maybe. Maybe if it was late on, after your usual bedtime, you may not have being completely zoned in (like I would be myself) and did in fact turn light off

argosy2006 wrote: »

But are u telling me the actual switch was push ?

Sometimes too electrical switches can get a wee bit gammy. Not sure if its a catch or spring inside them that gives, as I'm not an electrician, but they can just flick the other way over the course of a few mins. The switch may have being barley hanging on the on position and flicked the other way after you left the room OP. I think in fact this is likely to be the most plausible scenario..

Karona

Something similar happened me the other night, I was alone in the house downstairs and i had to go upstairs for something noticing that my mam had closed the sittingroom door before she went out, I went upstairs and when I came back down the sittingroom door was wide open, I looked inside the room as there has been a lot of break ins just to make sure everything was ok. I closed the door when I came back out.

Another hour goes by and I go to go back upstairs and the sittingroom door is open again. there was no drafts and that door is hard to open.

Just couldn't explain it.

MrMojoRisin

Karona wrote: »

Something similar happened me the other night, I was alone in the house downstairs and i had to go upstairs for something noticing that my mam had closed the sittingroom door before she went out, I went upstairs and when I came back down the sittingroom door was wide open, I looked inside the room as there has been a lot of break ins just to make sure everything was ok. I closed the door when I came back out.

Another hour goes by and I go to go back upstairs and the sittingroom door is open again. there was no drafts and that door is hard to open.

Just couldn't explain it.

If you were on your own in the house and that happened, you'd be at a loss to understand the cause of it alright.