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Debbie Wolf's presence causes electric bulbs to blow, lights to
turn off and on and volumes on CD players to increase.
"I can give out electricity to people, I can blow light bulbs, change
volumes," she says. "Really, I can just affect anything that is around
me that's electrical."
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A sate of anger or stress may be the trigger for the SLI effect. SLIder Debbie Wolf, a British barmaid, told CNN, "When it happens is when I'm stressed about something. Not really manically stressed, just when I'm really mulching something over, really chewing something over in my
head, and then it happens."
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WILD FRIDAY:
Electronic Pyschics
edited by
Ace in the Hole
For years I thought it was a government bug, used to track people who just might be too strange. As I drove down the road, streetlamps went out, just as I went under them. But now I know I am not alone.
Do streetlights suddenly go out when you pass beneath them? Do watches or credit cards stop working in your possession?
On the About.com website I read a story that mirrored mine. They wrote, "I have noticed that at
times while I am driving down the road at night a street light will go out as I am passing below
it. It happens frequently and seems to be happening more. It has been giving me the creeps. If it happened
only once or on very rare occasions, I don't
think I would have given it a thought. However,
it happens about once or twice a week. Could it
be some electronic thing or could it be
something less explainable?"
The bug by the Feds is still my favorite theory, but it seems that there is a more pseudo-scientific way to explain what has been going on. According to some, the phenomenon is known as street lamp interference, or SLI. It may be a psychic event and it is just beginning to be recognized and
studied.
A person who has this effect on streetlights - also known as a
SLIder - finds that the light switches on or off when he or she walks or
drives beneath it. Stephen Wagner says "Obviously, this could happen occasionally by chance
with a faulty streetlight (you've probably noticed that it's happened to
you once in a while), but SLIders claim that it happens to them on a
regular basis. It doesn't happen every time with every streetlight, but it
occurs often enough to make these people suspect that something
unusual is going on."
SLIders may also report that they have an odd effect on
other electronic devices:
- Appliances such as lamps and TVs go on and off without being
touched.
- Lightbulbs constantly blow when the SLIder tries to turn them
off or on.
- Volume levels change on TVs, radios, and CD players.
- Watches stop working.
- Children's electronic toys start by themselves when the SLIder is
present.
- Credit cards and other magnetically encoded cards are
damaged or erased when in their possession.
Our own thoughts and movements are the result of electrical impulses that are generated in the brain. We also know that we have energy that surrounds us, radiating from the body. Is it possible that these could have an effect outside the body as well?
The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) lab is doing research that may prove that the subconscious does affect electronic devices and the external world in general.
A research project into SLI has also been started by Dr. Richard Wiseman
at the University of Berkfordshire in England. We recently ran an article on Wisemanand his project to test ESP with a kiosk-type machine -
called The Mind Machine. Wiseman is trying to collect a large amount of data about the possible psychic
abilities of the general public.
Hillary Evans, an author and paranormal investigator with The
Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena
(ASSAP) has established the
Street Lamp Interference Data Exchange as a place where SLIders
can report their experiences and share those of other SLIders. "It's
quite obvious from the letters I get," Evans told CNN, "that these
people are perfectly healthy, normal people. It's just that they have
some kind of ability... just a gift they've got. It may not be a gift they
would like to have."
Could we be some sort of walking, talking remote control? If so, please teach me how to turn up the volume on Star Trek and mute out the commercials!
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