Key On File

A story of a younger colleague.
This younger colleague plays bass in a band, and it was when he was staying at a hotel in Nagoya for a live the next day.

He was sleeping in a twin room, in a bed adjoining his manager's, when he was suddenly attacked by sleep paralysis. Since he could just barely move his eyes, he looked at the clock by the bedside and saw that it was past two o'clock in the morning. 'Time to go out.'

His heart was making the sound of thumping in fright. Blended with that sound, he could hear a sound of something being dragged along, like zuzu... zuzu...

That was a scary thing, and his gaze was searching for the origin of that sound. The light at his bedside. The digital clock. Something was crouching beneath it. He couldn't see well in the dim light, but for some reason he thought it was a soldier wearing a tattered uniform.

In that moment he let out a scream, and at the same time his sleep paralysis loosened. He blinked, forgetting about the sleeping manager, and anyhow left the room like he was creeping. In his daze, he fell on his backside in the corridor and couldn't move, when suddenly beside him came that sound.

Perhaps...

He timidly rested his hand on the doorknob, and although it wasn't self-locking it had become locked from the inside. He didn't want to go in, but he couldn't go in!

He was dumbfounded. Because he was just a figure in a yukata. Embarrassed to be seen by somebody. He started beating on the door over and over in order to wake the sleeping manager, but the fact is he absolutely wouldn't wake up. Reluctantly, he went to the front desk as he was, and borrowed a spare key.

For the next day's live he was naturally suffering from sleep deprivation, and seemed to be tattered.

<Coach's Caution>

Isshi... the time for this personal experience story is two o'clock in the morning, right up to the end, but with regards to that, I'm just thinking, in what way can it be decided "time to go out"? I want to say that ghosts(?) naturally come out 'in the dead of night' but strangely there's no sleep paralysis in the dead of night. As it is, this doesn't carry out the promise of a ghost story as a "show." Although it has the custom of the strange thing appearing at a fixed time, strangeness is not limited to a certain time to appear. Be careful about how you relate scariness to the special abilities you wrote about before. Well, I have one thing left to write here, but in the sentence "for some reason he thought it was a soldier wearing a tattered uniform" it's not about the "for some reason," but even though the uniform is tattered, I think that he would have seen it as it is. It's a crucial point so please be a little more careful. Strangeness and embarrassment... for celebrities(?) it's interesting that embarrassment will take victory for which is more scary. But although I know he was locked out, why be so embarrassed about a yukata?