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What's going on here then?
When I turn the main lights on in my workplace, my computer crashes. It completely freezes, then restarts with a 'your computer ran into a problem' message.
It's a laptop, Lenovo, W8.1, perennially plugged in as the battery is crap. The lights are those florescent tubes. Incidentally, it will also crash if I unplug my USB audio interface which is always plugged in.
So, obvs the most rational explanation is GHOSTS. But - could there be another, more stranger reason?
Sounds like Aliens to me. Or your computer caught caught cat aids.
Duff laptop by the sounds of it...
Fluorescent tubes will add a load of noise to the mains supply, but laptop PSU should just filer that out.
Sounds like the battery pack is spiking/surging/doing something with magic and it's tripping out the motherboard/CPU.
Did the laptop have a crystal egg next to it?
Without that the negative vibes from lights being changed would have caused the flux converter to hit instant warp and fold up gravity.
Sounds like a mains noise problem to me as well. How many lights are being switched on at once?
Some kinda extra mains filter might deal with the problem. A UPS (Uninterruptible power supply) is more likely to be a reliable solution. However this would be a bit overkill for your usage.