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[MetalSlimeHunt]

Do you suffer from insomnia or general lack of sleep? In my experience, a ridiculous lack of sleep can warp your perception in subtle ways.

I've never slept well, not even as an infant, and I do get insomnia sometimes. However, even when I'm having decent sleep this happens, and I've seen enough misperceptions on my part to be relatively sure that this isn't a hallucination.

[DJ]

Your cables aren't properly shielded, so they're getting interference from your body. Same principle as affecting your TV reception by moving around (I swear I had to sit in the most uncomfortable position ever to watch this one channel).

[Grakelin]

That doesn't really happen anymore. In fact, Canada just phased them out completely, so that sort of TV will not work.

[Zrk2]

Could your eyelids be twitching, but not actually blinking? That would result in a decrease in light reaching your cornea (I hope I remember my parts of the eye right or I'll look like an idiot), making it seem that the lights are flickering.

[justinlee999]

I guess it's OK, I see lights flicker too, I suspect it's my eyes.

Also I electrically discharge on things, especially metal and people.

[ChairmanPoo]

No. You're Jesus too

[Yodamaster]

You're a lightning-mage. Here is the best path to awakening your power.

1. Begin noticing strange things happening around you. Shrug it off like it's nothing.

2. Walk home from school one day. Become surrounded by your worst enemy and his gang of hoodlum thugs.

3. Make sure it's raining out while this happens.

4. Become uncontrollably angry and, by instinct, extend your hand towards him.

5. Become frightened of your power and swear never to use it again.
5b. Become superhero.
5c. Become Darth Sidious and rule the galaxy.

When you become a lightning-mage and rule the world, don't forget us.

[Singularity-SRX]

When I'm in bed, and incredibly relaxed, I start noticing the... refresh rate? of the light. It's pretty cool ^^

[justinlee999]

You're a lightning-mage. Here is the best path to awakening your power.

1. Begin noticing strange things happening around you. Shrug it off like it's nothing.

2. Walk home from school one day. Become surrounded by your worst enemy and his gang of hoodlum thugs.

3. Make sure it's raining out while this happens.

4. Become uncontrollably angry and, by instinct, extend your hand towards him.

5. Become frightened of your power and swear never to use it again.
5b. Become superhero.
5c. Become Darth Sidious and rule the galaxy.

When you become a lightning-mage and rule the world, don't forget us.

Heh...

[Moogie]

Hey, MetalSlimeHunt. A similar thing has happened to me for several years. We use an electric shower, and the blasted thing ALWAYS managed to trip the fusebox whenever I used it, but it never happened for the other people living in the house. It happened often enough (i.e. every time) that we collectively found it very unlikely to be a coincidence, but we have no idea what the actual cause might've been.

First we thought that maybe the buildup of steam in the room was getting into the light fixture and causing a short there. Installed a completely new room light, and I resolved to shower in the cold with the small bathroom window open to let steam out. It still happened every time, without fail.

There was no set time it would happen, either. It might happen after 5 minutes, or 15 minutes. I usually showered as quickly as possible to avoid it, but it still usually caught me. The water would turn freezing cold and someone had to go flick the switch to get power back into the house. -_-

Anyway, we never figured out what was causing it. I never changed the dials, never used settings that other people didn't use. About a month ago, a misshap required us to replace the shower unit, and it hasn't happened since then.

For lack of any better theories, my best guess is that it has something to do with the field of electricity our bodies supposedly have, and perhaps mine was just generally strong enough to interfere with the circuitry in the shower- which must have been not properly shielded in some way. Beyond that, I have no idea why I regularly caused those house-wide powercuts, but I'm just glad it doesn't happen anymore!

[Blargityblarg]

Showers can be electric now?

[klingon13524]

When I'm in bed, and incredibly relaxed, I start noticing the... refresh rate? of the light. It's pretty cool ^^

You live in Europe, I presume? It's pretty much the electric pulses that you're seeing, about 50 a second I think.

[Singularity-SRX]

You live in Europe, I presume? It's pretty much the electric pulses that you're seeing, about 50 a second I think.

Nope, Australia ^^
It's the pulsing 'sleep' light on my laptop ^^

[klingon13524]

You live in Europe, I presume? It's pretty much the electric pulses that you're seeing, about 50 a second I think.

Nope, Australia ^^
It's the pulsing 'sleep' light on my laptop ^^

Mystery solved. It's designed to do that.

[Astramancer]

It doesn't look like anyone's asked... what kind of light is it?

I've never noticed it with compact florescent lights, but the full sized ones?  I can see them flickering.  Most of the people I asked couldn't see it unless they were specifically looking for it, but I always could (until I FINALLY learned to ignore it).  It drove me crazy in stores as a kid.

Maybe you're eyes are sensitive enough to see the frequency at which your CFL's flicker.