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I went into a public toilet.
It was a Japanese-style toilet.**
I hate Japanese-style toilets, but there was nothing I could do about it; so I squatted down. Then I noticed a message written on the wall in front of me.
"Look Right!!" It said.
What the hell? I turned my head to the right and saw another message on the wall that said, "Look Left!!"
Wow so bossy! I thought, but I turned my head to the left as instructed, and this time it said, "Look Up!"
Nervously I looked up at the ceiling and saw a message written in large red letters that said,
"Don't Look Behind You!!"
With a pounding heart, I slowly turned my head around and looked behind me......
And luckily, there was nothing there.
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** See this link for the proper way to use it.
I actually hate Japanese-style toilets too. lol
But in the days when people wore kimono, this type of toilet was most appropriate.
I went into a public toilet.
It was a Japanese-style toilet.**
I hate Japanese-style toilets, but there was nothing I could do about it; so I squatted down. Then I noticed a message written on the wall in front of me.
"Look Right!!" It said.
What the hell? I turned my head to the right and saw another message on the wall that said, "Look Left!!"
Wow so bossy! I thought, but I turned my head to the left as instructed, and this time it said, "Look Up!"
Nervously I looked up at the ceiling and saw a message written in large red letters that said,
"Don't Look Behind You!!"
With a pounding heart, I slowly turned my head around and looked behind me......
And luckily, there was nothing there.
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** See this link for the proper way to use it.
I actually hate Japanese-style toilets too. lol
But in the days when people wore kimono, this type of toilet was most appropriate.
Comments
At first the person is looking at the wall in front of him/her than he/she turns right, then turns left, when the person turns left is looking at the first wall again, but... the message is different!
So that means that there is something inside the bathroom with him....
Well,that's my hypothesis
so, when it says, "behind you", it is actually below you..
Luckily that person doesn't look below him/her..
2) I'm not really sure about this but if he looked up (facing the ceiling), and the message said don't look BEHIND you, wouldn't it mean the opposite direction (the floor/ toilet)? Maybe something's going to crawl out...
Saya, why won't you give the answers anymore? I can't figure out the going to bathroom at night one...
Or, alternatively, since the person is squatting down, that person's sight-line is too low to see the thing floating behind him.
Am I right saya? sorry for my bad english =w=
The message is changing! First scary part. >_<
The look behind means to look at the toilet that he is using right now!! [I'm actually move my head following the story so I know it for sure... I mean behind you when you are looking up means under you...right?]
The thought of something coming from under you [covered in you-know-what] when you are doing your business is just plain creepy! >_<
I've just tried squatting down and trying to look behind me and I almost broke my neck / fall down! An idea then popped up... is she the girl from Exorcist?!?! Haha
but the messages itself is tricky for me, if I was that person, I would do the same, because "behind me" for me is behind my body, not behind my head...
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...or maybe, just maybe the messages just want to tell that it's not appropiate to look inside the toilet during the...uh..process(?)
Anyway, good story Saya san!
Sorry Saya san~ XD love your blog!
1. The writing changed
2. When looking up.... "behind you" could also mean down.... in the toilet....
...oh god.
But yup, I also think the first message has changed. Maybe something would show up if she DIDN'T look behind? That's my guess :p
my interpretation was that the person has been following all the instructions except the person did not obey the last instruction because the last one was a negative sentence...DON'T look behind you.
So I think the ghost was in front of the person when the person turned around. if the person followed the instruction and didn't look behind and stayed looking at the front...the person would have seen the ghost.
So there is nothing there before because the GHOST IS IN THE FRONT!
which the user will find out after s/he turns back to front hehe
Now I can't read multiple story at once... T^T
( i want to use it as ' Open in new Tab ' )
Ok, this one really got me stumped.
I don't really agree with the "look below" theories. Because the narrator only moved his head after reading each message, not his body. "Don't look behind" for me would refer to behind the narrator's body, not behind the back of his head.
Hmmm.. maybe the message referred to something that attached itself to narrator's back, or something that was standing reaaallllyy close to narrator's back. He must have twisted his body to see behind him, and that something also follow his movement, so that's why he did not see anything.
I'm not sure I got this right. I'm curious to see more theories from other posters.
nunu
Then when the last message told him NOT to look behind, but he still look behind..I am guessing since he disobeyed the msg, something will happen will he turned back to the front wall heehee:P
(But who would be so silly to follow instructions/ messages written on toilet walls? O.o )
So if only my head is turned to the left, my front is my body's left but in Chinese when someone is talking to me, they will call that my front. So in that case, "back" is behind my head, in other words by body's right.
Maybe it's similar in Japanese?
Anyway I think the person's supposed to look what's INSIDE the toilet, and what s/he did was look to the other wall behind his back. Cause the opposite of up is down, right. //shot
Reminds me of that creature inside that toilet that offers blue/red toilet paper, if I'm not mistaken. Maybe that's the thing waiting in there?! :o And more creatures in the toilet - I saw one in an episode of Yami Shibai (that horror anime). Because of toilet creatures I'm so convinced of this answer, lol.
But I disagree with the theory that the inscription changes: If I sit on a toilet and the front wall (or, in normal cases, the door) says "Look right", and I look right, and then there's a note saying "Look left", I look *past* the front message to my left side, where it says "Look up". So no changing message. But still no explanation to the whole thing. And if the narrator uses the toilet the wrong way, I'm completely lost...
Is it some joke like "Toilet Tennis", where on the left wall it says "Look right" and on the right wall, it says "Look left"?
Saya, do you have an explanation? Would you share it with us when you're less busy? Anyway, this story is a nice mindfuck, it keeps me thinking for days now...
Cheers, Doc Sanchez
I just wanna say that, I don't have a definite solution for this story or anything, but I think many people would say that it's the fact the first message changed when the narrator read it for the second time which makes the story creepy.
If so, it serves as a good joke.
Basically, the moment he switches back to looking in front, he's done
When he/she read the message: "Don't look behind you", and when he/she turned to look at his/her behind, of course it's a wall and nothing's there. But the real thing comes after it...
After he/she turned his/her head back to the front, then there must be something there (his/her front). When his/her head was facing the back wall, it means that the message "Don't look behind" was meant: "Don't look behind you, because you'll never know what's coming from your front."
My opinion tho :)