r/Paranormal • u/AffectionateStudy29 • 8h ago
Debunk This The kitchen light used to turn on whenever I would walk into the room
So a few years ago I had something strange happen to me. Out of the blue, every time I’d walk into the kitchen, the light would turn on without me flipping the switch. It was always the moment I stepped into the kitchen, never at any other time (like not if I was in the living room or upstairs, etc.). It got to the point that I’d dread going in there because I could predict that the light would turn on by itself. It had me totally freaked out and one day my husband texted me and said it happened to him too (it was only me up until that day). There wasn’t a smart bulb connected to an app and the kitchen lights are four recessed lights in the ceiling so not one singular bulb. There weren’t any electrical issues that could explain why it would only turn on whenever I stepped across the threshold into the kitchen and our house was brand new at the time, like maybe one or two years old. The only thing different about that light is that it’s on a touch sensor dimmer switch instead of a physical on/off switch.
One day I finally decided to sage the house and while I was doing so, my husband was cleaning the garage and accidentally dropped an ash tray that was his dad’s and it broke. This felt significant because his dad had just died a couple years prior and my husband literally never drops anything, ever. After I saged, the lights never turned on by themselves again. Anyone have any insight on this? I think about it every day and wonder what was up with that. Still freaks me out to think about.
3
u/Wide-Foot7184 8h ago
That touch dimmer switch is the culprit 100%. They're notorious for picking up static or small electrical fluctuations, a person walking into the room can trigger them easy. The timing with the ash tray is spooky though, hard to ignore that coincidence.
2
u/AffectionateStudy29 8h ago
Interesting, so my body just walking next to the dimmer switch could be enough to turn it on? It’s so strange because we still have the same dimmer switch and it’s never happened since.
2
u/No_Logins_Required 8h ago
Why would you dread having the lights turn on?
His dad had "just died" years ago?
Hm.
1
u/AffectionateStudy29 8h ago
And yeah I guess two years ago isn’t “just died” but it felt significant maybe just because I had been looking for something to connect it to
1
•
u/AutoModerator 8h ago
Remember to change your flair to reflect the appropriate NSFW Flair if it DOES contain: graphic images, gore, harsh or extreme language, or mentions of anything that should include trigger warnings; suicide, self-harm, gore, or abuse, to better aid users on what to expect when reading your post.
We would also like to remind you we have an Official Discord. You can join here: https://discord.gg/hztYaucMzU
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.