It’s about midnight and you are heading home. Suddenly, the street lamp above turns off without reason, and you find yourself in the dark. It is natural to experience a chill. But what would you think if street lamps kept turning off when you passed them by?
It is something that many of us have experienced, at least once. Many don’t take notice, but others do and wonder if the cause of such interference lies inside them…
The idea is that there appears to be an effect that is not consistent with our current knowledge of how people interact with the physical world, and which occurs in specific circumstances.
Four explanations for SLI have been proposed…”
— Massimo Polidoro, an investigator of the paranormal, author, lecturer, and cofounder and head of CICAP, the Italian skeptics group. Via The Skeptical Inquirer. I have previously mentioned SLI here, given my own experiences with a particular pair of streetlights on my block.
Why not just train a camera on a lamp and record for a couple nights, review and see whether lamp blinks an passersby correlate or occur at random?
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Good point, Jerry. It underscores that the empirical research really hasn’t been done. Given that I sometimes feel I have this influence on local streetlights, I should do the experiment.
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