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It's weird. I swore it always happened to me, and some friends witnessed it, but I've really never really given it much thought, at all.

But tonight when I went downstairs and noticed even through the WALLS and being about 75 ft from the light that I saw it go out (the windows of the house dimmed), I thought "wtf". I googled "knocking out streetlights" and came up with SLI. I had no idea that it was something being researched or something that people already knew about. Seems rather common among certain people, even if they are still debating what actually causes it. Pretty interesting...I guess.

Anti is right - it isn't coincidence.

I'm telling you, it's done it for 7 years for me. Not regularly like EVERY single time I drive at night, but enough times that when I'm literally passing under a street light and it changes, you're like "wtf." The past few months it's been the light right across the street from me, which prompted me tonight to google "street lights knocking out" and finding tons of other people that it happens too.

Actually, it happens to SO many people that it's probably not even as unheard of as it sounds. But what causes it in the first place is what interests me.

Some examples:

"i believe i have some level of sli. whenever i am out, lights go out. at first i thought it was my car somehow interfering with the sensor or the light and for a few years i just ignored it, not thinking twice. i thought it was wierd. but i never thought it was something unexplainable. but then i got a new car, and then i got a new bike, and it still happens. so i abandon the vehicle and just walk and it still happens. walk close, light goes off, walk away, light goes on. not all lights and not at all times and not necessarily the same lights. maybe one or two streetlights on my way home."

"ive just been reading about all the people who dim or make street lights go out and my freinds think im crazy cos i tell tried telling them that they go out sumtimes when i just drive past them. they just think im seeing things but i know that they go off and then they come back on when i pass them"

"I enjoy taking walks on a regular basis. It allows me to relax, and just think. However, something that almost always ruins my mood is when street lamps around me turn off. Just tonight, I turned off three in a row. They turn off as I approach, and turn back on as I leave. I walked back towards one which had turned back on, and it turned off again, only to turn back on as I left. I'm not sure what it is, but it seems like a few select street lamps turn off, as it is usually the same ones if I walk through an area again."

"I have been experiencing the street light effect for more than 20 years, and like many of the other persons who say they have the same 'affliction'?, I also experience things like turning the tv off and then it comes back on when I walk away.

One thing that I've noticed (that none of the others have mentioned on this site?) that I experience during a streetlight episode when I'm driving my car is that I know its going to happen a second or two before it happens, Almost always! Many times I've had a passenger with me and comment to them 'watch this". As soon as we pass under the light, it goes out. Some intuitional flash tells me its going to happen just seconds before it happens. Sometimes two or three lights will go out at once, some times three or four in a row, in sequence, 4 or 500 times in 30 years, and it continues. There must be something to it. There are presently several experiments being conducted at some major university psychology departments world wide. If you look around the web, there's lots of info about human beings and electrical phenomena, but not a whole lot about the street light effect. Obviously it is not a unique effect among many people. Someday technology and science will be able to expain all of this phenomena.
Bill"

etc. etc.

For people that it happens to, it's more than just a "LOL" situation. Like I've said, it happens to me more than 1-3 times weekly. How can that be simply to faulty lights? I'm sure it has to do with positive or negative bodily charges that maybe certain dividuals possess; something. There has to be a reason why it continually happens to some and not to others.