It’s a fairly reasonable assumption that almost everyone reading this article knows at least one person who’s a SLIder or is possibly even a SLIder themselves. These people appear to represent a non-discriminatory cross section of the population – they are male and female, young and old, straight and gay, black and white and live in both urban and rural areas. They can be doctors, scientists, schoolteachers, journalists, copywriters, mechanics, checkout operators, and just about any other occupation you can imagine. Obviously the next question is…. what the hell is a SLIder?
A SLIder is a person who seems to be able to cause street lights to go out just by walking or driving past them. This ability appears to be completely spontaneous and intermittent, the person in question having no apparent control over it. It also has the appearance of being quite random, without any obvious sequence of cause and effect. Sometimes the SLIder will experience it several times in the same week while other times it may not happen for an extended period. The phenomenon is known as Street Light Interference (SLI). In America it is also known as Street Lamp Interference. At this point in time, very little is understood about it although it has been over a decade since it was first identified as an actual phenomenon.
In 1993 an American scientist, Dr Hilary Evans, published what still remains the most comprehensive report on SLI, titled The SLI Effect. The 55 page report, which Dr Evans compiled in conjunction with the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena, was based primarily on the anecdotal testimony of a large number of people, mostly from North America, who had reported experiences of SLI on a fairly regular basis and over a number of years. In her report, Dr Evans concluded that, while SLI should certainly be considered a real and existing phenomenon, she also pointed out that the further studies necessary to learn more about it would be very difficult to conduct as SLI isn’t something that people are able to carry out on request, as well as the fact that recreating the necessary conditions within a laboratory would present its own problems.
According to the testimonials in Dr Evans’ report, many of the people reporting SLI had assumed they were experiencing a one-of-a-kind type of phenomenon and in many cases it had taken a long time for each individual to realize that the extinguishing of certain street lights in their presence was more than coincidence or random occurrences.
One SLIder from Sydney, reports that; “I’d been noticing for years that street lights often went out whenever I was around but I had always just assumed that it was something that happened to everyone. It wasn’t until I started to mention it to other people and drew blank looks from them that I started to realize it was much much less common than I’d first thought.” Many people in Dr Evans’ study also reported that they had become very circumspect about who they told as more often than not, the response from other people was ridicule.
Although the circumstances surrounding the reports of SLI in Dr Evans’ 1993 report varied widely from each other, one factor that seemed to emerge as being a common thread was that many of the people experiencing occurrences of SLI were either thinking deeply about something or else in an emotional or agitated state at the time. Although this wasn’t enough for Dr Evans to draw any solid conclusions, it did 
seem to indicate that SLI was somehow connected to electrical impulses produced by the brain.
While street lights appear to be most commonly affected by SLIders (hence the name), it appears that many other electrical gadgets and appliances can also be similarly affected. Many of the SLIders providing testimonials in Dr Evans’ report speak of odd experiences with CD and DVD players, television remote controls, and especially personal computers. Some SLIders even reported affecting clocks and watches in strange, unpredictable and unexplained ways. Again, as virtually all of these testimonials are anecdotal, there is precious little solid evidence to back up the phenomenon, which leaves SLI open to criticism and doubt by skeptics. Indeed, many of the SLIders themselves remained highly sceptical of the idea that a person can cause a street light to extinguish itself merely by walking or driving past it, even though this is exactly what they were experiencing personally. In our highly scientific and logical western world where the basic principles of cause and effect reign supreme, SLI seems to fly completely in the face of logic and common sense. It will only be after more extensive scientific studies into SLI have taken place that it will start to be recognized as a real phenomenon.
Next time you’re walking or driving alone down a street and a street light suddenly extinguishes as you approach it, don’t automatically dismiss it as a completely random and meaningless occurrence… perhaps you, too, are a SLIder.
Author Gary Fishlock
Google: ‘street lamp interference’ for further information also The Field by Lynne McTaggart. Great collation of scientifically proven evidence.
I’ve been turning off street lights for years. I didn’t say anything and my wife kept saying that I should stop turning off the lights….for safety reasons – haha. It was then (after she noticed it) that I told her I had been doing it since I was young and just didn’t say anything to anyone about it.
There are other things too but to much too mention here.
Is the opposite possible?
Computers seems to debug only when i’m near. It happens often…
They debug when i’m about to look at the problem and without doing anything.
Yesterday, the network did not work until i when to work. It started to work as soon as i enter my work place.
Then i quitted.
Later, the network was down again.
Then it only started to work again when i came back in the place…
Almost every day there’s a case like this. I laugh every time about it and i pretend i have x-men powers… i think it’s more like some extraordinary coincidences tho…
excellent submit, very informative. I’m wondering why the other experts of this sector don’t notice this.
You must proceed your writing.
Finally found something that can explain a lot, even thought i already had a sense as to what it was.
It was when i walked past 3 street light one after the other that i realised this phenomena, that was aged 16, i’m 23 now and it still happens all the time in work, i’ll drive past ‘certain’ over head lights in work and they’ll always go off.
Another ‘certain’ light bulb changes from a normal yellow hue to a red hue, ‘sometimes. it happens more when i’m not looking for it.
I only really researched this bcos today due to my history of it
“many of the people experiencing occurrences of SLI were either thinking deeply about something or else in an emotional or agitated state at the time” – 100% relatable.
Some theorists claim that humans who have lived previous lives elsewhere will be born on earth with different energy and abilities, including the slider-type phenomena. For more information, search the ‘net for “star seed,” “Indigo children,” or “Indigo adults.” In any case, it appears that something alters sliders’ energetic frequencies, thus causing unusual electrical phenomena.
I’ve been shutting off street lights since the age of 17. I’m 48 now. After a while, I became aware that, what was happening with the lights, wasn’t coincidence.
It was in my late 30s that, only once in my life, I turned off 3 street lights in a row, while driving past them. After “asking”.
Just like one other commenter said. There’s more, too much to write here.
My SLIder experiences have increased as I’ve gotten older. Doesn’t matter if I’m in a car, riding a bike or walking. Doesn’t matter where I am, what town I’m in. At least 1 light will go out as I pass it.
Thank you for the article.
Jillie
I am able to turn them off as well as on. I noticed it with street lamps first, and then on a garage that i lived near, then i killed one at work, then in the house I was living in recently. I’ve noticed that it is in fact linked to my level of emotion, both joy and rage will affect the switch. One time I had a whole argument in sync with a lamp and a lightning storm.
I have shut down street lights for as long a I can remember,as well as other dusk till dawn lights.I would shut down a large light where I worked nights every time I would get about 75 feet from it.It will happen while walking,biking or driving. I am usually In deep thought while I’m doing any of the above,but It seems if I am angry I’ll shut them off at longer distances.I don’t seem to effect the newer white light types,but I live in the country and we still have many of the older yellowish light versions around.
I am 46 and I noticed this about myself when I was in my twenties. I had other paranormal phenomenon’s as well. I mention this as a possible connection being an open person. I was a bartender for many years and met a man an old man that would sit at the bar and grumble whenever I walked by him. He would get so angry when I came near him. I finally asked him what the issue was, and he said it was my “energy” it was “too much”. I knew right away he must be sensitive to phenomenon himself. I asked if he was psychic, which took some coaxing. I could tell he may have drank heavily to deal with his gift. He finally said yes and we chatted.
The bottom line here is there must be a higher energy with people like us that could correlate to the lights, this man feeling my energy, and so forth. To this day, it still happens and frequently when I drive at night. You know it’s a phenomenon when it can grab your attention because it happens so much. That’ s how I know it’s not just coincidence
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Thankyou, I’m glad you enjoyed it. There are many unspoken anomalies out their that just is.
If anyone has any advice on how to stop this…. i seem to affect light bulbs, computers and frequently other intermittent items and its costly. This has been going on for long enough and I’m pretty over it. Anyone have any suggestions on how to stop it? I feel like this phenomena in my life is going to force me to live in a mud hut in the wilderness!
PS~ I’m so happy to see the author of this article mention: “The Field” By Lynne MacTaggart. I read this book years ago and I absolutely loved it. I don’t remember many specifics but now I think I might break it out again… maybe I will learn something.
Hi Jenna,
No suggestions really. For me, i try to keep calm, positive disposition. I acknowledge it when it happens on the odd occasion and simply move on and not to think about it overly. Its an amazing, diverse and interesting world we live in. Electrical signals pulsing through our lives on so many levels. Thanks for writing in