Today while New York City is baking in temperatures of about 100 degrees, I am making a rare use of my air conditioner. New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has recently been ridiculed for asking people to set their air conditioners at 78 degrees, to save energy and reduce the chance of a blackout from excessive energy use by the public. Such ridicule makes no sense. If you wear shorts, a room is comfortable enough if you set the air conditioner to 78 degrees.
As I typically do in the morning and afternoon, I was enjoying the "Stingray Naturescape" channels on my LG Channels TV facility. It's a group of three contiguous channels (IP-757, IP-756 and IP-755) that provide the most soothing visual and auditory content. You get visual footage such as scenes filmed by drones flying high over beaches and forests and mountains and natural parks and fields of flowers, and footage taken at vacant beaches or near waterfalls or in the middle of fields of flowers. The background music is instrumental music designed to soothe, such as gentle piano music, gentle acoustic guitar music, gentle pan pipe music, or organ music with slow, long-lasting chords. The effect is extremely soothing. These channels are great to play on your TV when you have work to do on your computer. The channels won't distract you from your work.
There are occasional commercial interruptions, which I evade by changing from one of the three contiguous channels to another, or by pressing the Mute button on my remote control.
Today my remote control was an arm's length away, when suddenly I lose the channel I was on, and my TV goes to a startup screen showing lots of little squares representing viewing options. How did that happen? The only way for that to happen on my TV is for someone to press the Home button on my TV remote, which has a little House icon on it. But the button was untouched, and the TV remote was an arm's length away, with nothing else touching it.
This was yet another example of what I have observed (and documented in posts at this site) innumerable times, at occasional intervals -- some result resembling what would occur if some invisible hand had pressed a button or flipped a switch. Today's anomaly may have had some possible metaphysical symbolism, related to the topic discussed in my post here. The "Home" motif is one that strongly occurs in near-death experiences.
