Mystery

[hollytree]

I'm not sure under which category my query comes under.
For six nights now a strange thing happens at night time when I am in bed.
After I switch my bedside lamp off, gradually, in the corner of my room, about a yard from the head of my bed, what looks like a white smoke ring appears at ceiling level. It is about 46 cm across. The ring has a border of about 8cm of what seems to be thick white smoke which then tapers in density towards The middle which is dark
Until last night it was stationary but last night it gradually moved until it was hovering over my head and again stayed there all night until dawn.
I am hoping someone else has had this experience and can give an explanation for it for it has me quite foxed. Hollytree

[yogasun]

Has anyone else seen it hollytree?

[ChillDoubt]

Where do you live, Amityville?

[mrs_overall]

it is about 46cm across?
That sounds like an exact measurement to me

[albaqwerty]

do you look at the light-bulb before switching it off?

[mrs_overall]

Alba, snap - I was just thinking along those lines

[albaqwerty]

great minds Mrs O, but yours is superior to mine :-) x

[Baldric]

Isn't it normally on the seventh night when these things show themselves?

[Booldawg]

try and photograph it. see what comes out.

[daffy654]

Could it be a street light 'halo'?

[Baldric]

46 Cms is quite large, could be interesting

[Kiki-frog]

Is the bedside lamp new or have you changed the bulb for a different type recently? If so Mrs O and Alba could well have a good point

[Prudie]

Did you watch it all night? Surely it would freak you out and you'd put the light on to get a better look?

[grasscarp]

Did you try reaching up and touching it?

[Svejk]

I'd be darned if I'd keep switching the light off.

[Svejk]

I'd be darned if I'd keep switching the light off.

[mccfluff]

its the ghost of a very large hula hoop that died in your room

[Quoi]

Gin haze - but 6 nights in a row - tut tut

[society]

Perhaps there's a tiny space somewhere in the room which light is seeping in through, causing that halo which you are seeing?

[DJHawkes]

it's probably a reflection from something metal or glass in the room distorted, it could be a perfume bottle lid or the lense of some reading glasses, you'd be surprised what tricks light and reflection can play on us.

[Brinjal]

I have five bulb light fitting in my bedroom with enery saver bulbs in it. When I turn it off the bulbs glow for quite awhile after giving an eerie halo.