J.T.
Maybe Logic
OK. I don't think this is paranormal, but I don't think it has been explained or properly acknowledged, so maybe worth a mention for the curious.
When I walk (or drive) under lit streetlights, there's an unusually good chance that one of them will blink out as I come to close proximity. I remember as a kid of 4-6 yrs old (mid 70s) first noticing this as we drove on a highway at night, and I'd stick my head into the back of the car and look at the lights flow by in a steady progression. Every few minutes one of them would blink out as we passed underneath. I remember this clearly, though I just filed it away as a peculiar little detail which would be repeated as I grew older.
In early 1990's as I started an office job, I'd walk across a well lit bridge twice a day. During wintertime the lights would be on both in the morning and the evening, and within those 10 times I'd pass a specific light during each week, it would blink out 3-4 times as I walked underneath it. This made me finally aware of the fact that streetlights (no other lights are susceptible to this) occasionally have a problem with me.
When I moved from Europe to the US in 2000, and got married, I haven't come across another 'sensitive' light like that, but they still blink out on a regular basis. My wife made fun of it when I told her a few years back, and I'd sometimes point out lights going out as we drove underneath them. Earlier this month downtown Asheville we were walking to our car under a solitary streetlight in a dark little alley, she too was won over when it blinked out as we approached it. "Don't do that," was her half-jokey comment.
Anybody else have experiences with this phenomenon?
When I walk (or drive) under lit streetlights, there's an unusually good chance that one of them will blink out as I come to close proximity. I remember as a kid of 4-6 yrs old (mid 70s) first noticing this as we drove on a highway at night, and I'd stick my head into the back of the car and look at the lights flow by in a steady progression. Every few minutes one of them would blink out as we passed underneath. I remember this clearly, though I just filed it away as a peculiar little detail which would be repeated as I grew older.
In early 1990's as I started an office job, I'd walk across a well lit bridge twice a day. During wintertime the lights would be on both in the morning and the evening, and within those 10 times I'd pass a specific light during each week, it would blink out 3-4 times as I walked underneath it. This made me finally aware of the fact that streetlights (no other lights are susceptible to this) occasionally have a problem with me.
When I moved from Europe to the US in 2000, and got married, I haven't come across another 'sensitive' light like that, but they still blink out on a regular basis. My wife made fun of it when I told her a few years back, and I'd sometimes point out lights going out as we drove underneath them. Earlier this month downtown Asheville we were walking to our car under a solitary streetlight in a dark little alley, she too was won over when it blinked out as we approached it. "Don't do that," was her half-jokey comment.
Anybody else have experiences with this phenomenon?
