Blowing lightbulbs

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I used to have problems with making light bulbs go out, and messing up electronic equipment when I was a teenager. It doesn't happen anymore, though. One time, I I even made a light bulb explode when I turned it on. Glass went all over the bathroom.

Serenity, I did that also, the light bulb exploded in the living room and smashed through the glass cover thing and cracked/or broke that lol!

Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please...

Apologies for insulting your referral. The writer seems to be messing around taking it all very lightly ( ) - no-one hits the pole to make the light go off; space aliens?

I think electric brain activity somehow resonates with the electric charge of the streetlight and that the only coincidence is the vulnerability of a specific lamp. The Aspie brain is ALOT more active than others. The times that it happened with me was when I am in close proximity of the lamp, often the only person in the street.

Well, if there is a connection between autism/aspergerism and street lamps, then it is possible to show this with a scientific experiment.

Go ahead, experiment, it shouldn't be impossible. What you have to do is to let a number of NTs and a number of aspies/auties perform the same procedure; let's say "Walk this way. Pass these street lamps. Count how many lamps crashes. Do this every day for a year. " You could also let a few hundred light bulbs burn, and see what happens when a group of aspies are around, and then repeat the experiment with NTs. You just have to find people who has expectations enough to actually join your experiment.

Right now this is nothing but vague indications. There are conspiracy theories more credible than this idea.

I won't go into the credibility of conspiracy theories, or I'd be typing all night. But suffice it to say, it happens to me too. I make street lights go off on a daily basis. I can improve or interfere with radio reception depending on where in the same room I am standing or what position I am standing in. And in college (one of the reasons I switched from majoring in chemistry to computer science) was that the highly sensitive scales that could digitally weigh samples down to the milligram always jumped around like crazy whenever I went near them. They didn't do that for anyone else in the class, and this made it very difficult to get any lab work done let me tell you. That would be an experiment that would be easy to reproduce, BTW.

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I hope you don't mind that I put it up ,it just sounded to cool not to.

Yea I have this problem to . Just today when I was watching a movie in the theater the sound went all funny . I do this so often mostly with electronics but not always. lately it has spread farther, to things like windows ( they make a crack noise like there gonna break. ) And a most unnerving time when I was sitting in my living room and a support beam in the roof directly above my head cracked really loudly . I was worried it would fall Shocked . I find (with my experiences) Its something I'm focusing on with my mind . I start to focus on it and then I start to put energy into it , emotional/something else . I cant really describe it but when I focus on it it will crack( if its a regular object) . Its almost as if it were about to shatter, (but I don't want to find out Laughing )

But if it is an electronic piece of equipment it will malfunction. My cd drive is always pooping out for no reason at all. The tv always messes up and when I was in the theater the sound kept going off until I fixed it .

The only way I know to stop this is to block this force (what ever it is I'm doing to this stuff.) with my mind and then it gets better.
The weirdest part of it all is the fact that when it first started I kept messing up dvds . When I took them out they were all scratched up . even brand new ones.


(I posted this in another thread but I though it was relevant here.)

One of my favorite little stories, regarding this sort of thing, is how, in the 60s, some computer departments had tapes that would go bad. They found it was due to static electricity generated by the tapes case rubbing against the secretaries legs as she put them away!

Why would human presence have an effect on a radically different form of electricity than what is in our bodies? I'm sure everyone has "blown a light bulb" because when they turn one on, they are causing it to experience its most stressful state: a room-temperature filament immediately spiking to thousands of degrees. This is the point at which most light bulbs fail. The failure is accompanied by a blue flash from the electrical arc across the broken filament, along with a metallic *tink* noise. A blown light bulb. This is how filamentary light bulbs fail. The only way it relates to someone's presence is that they had to be there to flip the switch to heat the filament.

I've also seen street lights turn on and off when I happened to be near them. They are switched by a sensing circuit that detects how much sunlight there is. Guess what? This has always occurred near dawn or dusk. It just happened to be a coincidence that I was there.

Maybe it's your "aspie perception" that makes you notice when you destroy street lights, when NTs simply do not notice. Just a thought.

Everyone can do that AFAIK. (Yes, this happens for me too. )


That's an interesting story.
I have never had that problem myself though. But maybe we didn't use 1 milligram precision scales, but 5 mg precision ones instead.

To speculate even more, it's also possible that my brain is too much NT and too little autistic to make that experiment work. I don't have problems with sensory overload for instance.

What a cooincidental thread revival...my light bulb just blew the other day

Well, not so much "blew" as "died slowly". It kept getting dimmer until it just died =/

I'm so tired of replacing that bulb...we have a flourescent one, but it's too tall to fit. Maybe I'll have to go to the store and see if they make smaller ones.

This doesn't explain the ones that happen during the middle of the night.

Yes, this happens to me. Other people picked up on it already ans comment on it, friends, family, since this happens since I was a small child.

I usually just cause the light bulbs to blow out, but I've caused bulbs to explode into pieces too.

But, yeah, since I'm spiritual and occult and everything, I don't wonder too much hehe.

Me and a friend were standing 1 foot under a bulb 1 hour ago and just as he told me to watch out for a person not just in various respects but one in particular when the bulb gave up the ghost,.