Are You a SLIder?

And no, I'm not talking about being a member of the Jerry O'Connell fan club...

A million years ago, when I was still in High School, a friend and I used to sit on a hilltop overlooking the city and concentrate on a light--any particular one would do--and try to make it go out. Today I can't remember why we did this--probably an attempt to make ourselves seem a little more important, or seem to have a little more influence in this vast universe of our's.

A million or so years later, I've noticed a phenomenon where street lamps seem to come on or go off around me. It seems I'm not the only one--there's a name for the phenomenon:

Street Light Interference or SLI.

Appropriately, those people that can cause the phenomenon are called SLIders.

Wikipedia has a brief description of Street Light Interference, for those interested.

I don't know if I believe in the actual phenomenon or not. I'm more apt to believe in the statistics of how many street lamps there are in the world and how often one or more might happen to go out around certain individuals. However, when 3-5 go out on a particular night...

Whether you believe or not, I think the only danger is attributing anything significant to the phenomenon, or playing a type of Magic 8-Ball with the occurrences:  "What was I thinking?"  "She loves me!"  "I should take that new job..."

Yeah, I do it all the time.

So, what do you think of SLIders?  Fact?  Fiction?  Any interesting stories of your own to tell?  Lemme know.