I thought I'd share this with you guys since a guy on 2channel translated it all for me. http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=8D7IYUAa7Zs&feature=related Title is: "experiences only real a few years or longer hikikomori people can share with each other and sympathize with." 1: It hurts to catch sun rays after a long while. 3: Just an ordinary/simple sound sounds like a big noise. 6: You don't get fat than you imagine because while you don't move your body and consume little calories, you don't have much appetite. 8:>>6 You naturally come to have a meal once a day without feeling hungry. 15: Try to pay much attention to whether you are wearing an appropriate clothes even just when you go to a convenience store. 17: Scared of mornings to come. 18: Always shut curtains and keep sunlights from coming in. Number unknow: When I was a real hikikomori, I didn't catch rays for as long as one year. It's miracle that I recovered to the point where I feel comfortable with bathing in sunlights... 30: >>18 Smae here... 28: Just a casual walk at night makes your back and knees wabble. 48: >>28 That's exactly the case with me. You get less interested in weather forcast. 31: When you go outside after a long while, you feel like as if you'd just got out of a jail. 32: When you wake up in the daytime, you think "I'll sleep a little bit more" and when you wake up at night, you think "It's about time to get up..." 38: Even though it's cold outside already, you go out wearing light clothing without realizing change in season. 44:>>38 That... That happens... Number unknown: I've lost the track of changes in seasons because of a long period of shut-in life and I've go out heavily-clothed even in warm weather in spring. 45: It's true that your vocal cord gets weak. I think my voice was lower when I was a middle school student. 46: You forget how to vocalize. 47: It's extremely painful to walk in a corwd. 55: You stop looking yourselves in a mirror. You look at yourselves reflected in a mirror after one year and wonder if the face in the mirror is sure that of yours. 61:When outside, you feel inferiority complex towards unspecific people. 66: You come to have trouble in vocalizing. Number unknown: I've caught a cold and stayed at home for the whole week. When one week passed, I couldn't speak well. When you shut in, you don't speak. 68: You feel uneasy about other people's eyes. 69: You come to find it hard to speak something in mind and you look weird, struggling to say it. 70: You lose the sense of time. You become clueless about what day it is today. 72: Boy, these comments left by hikikomori is full of reality. They reflect hikikomori's real situatiuons. 86:>>72 I couldn't agree with you more. These posts reflect all of my hikikomori experience as it is. 73: When you go out, you feel dizzy. Just a short walk cause muscle pains the next day. 75: You feel uneasy about the way you walk. 77: You reacknowledge that the world functions without you. 83: Just the sound of doorbell scares you to death. 90: The sound of ringtone has almost the same effect of bomb exlosion. 91: You feel inferiority complex even towards your pet. Before you stroke him/her, you pause and wonder if a person like me is worth stroking him. 97: When you are forced to go out in the daytime, you feel dizzy because of brightness and pressures you feel. If at night, relatively OK. 99: You start thinking about why on earth you live. 104: I dream of you playing with my friends. I wonder why because I decided that I don't need any friends any more. 125: >>104 You feel like crying when you wake up after such dreams. In dreams like that, people you may be able to become friends with or you want to become friends with appear. That's so tough. Number unknown: >>125 Same here. In my case, friends I used to hang out with appear in my dream. 115: You feel peaceful on rainy days. 133: If you try to speak something after a long while, you can't speak well. Once you start laughing, you can't stop it. Plus the way you laugh is weird. 138: All these posts are so compelling that I cried. 142: A lot more hikikomori in this board than I imagined. lololol 146: You get hungry--->You open refrigerator----> you found nothing to eat there--->You try to sleep or you surf the Internet. 154: One day passes really quickly. Probably today, too. lol Sorry for being worthless. 185: Try to make my surroundings as if it were late at night. 207: You are annoyed by rays coming in from gaps between curtain and wall, so you put corrugated boards over the gaps tp prevent rays from coming in. 226: You try write down a message you get over the phone but find out that you forget how to write kanji characters. 242: Your skin color is like that of fluorescent lamp. 265: You realize your muscles are getting weak. I found myself having trouble holding NINTENDO 64 controller with GB pack inserted. 282: I realized that most of hikikomori are a kind of people who can't live a social life. Number unknown: We are a kind of people who can't get out of this situation. 289:>>282 Why don't you start doing a part-time job? Number unknown: I know. I understand that in my head but when it comes to taking action, I'm scared. I know I sound like making an excuse, though... 302: You unconsciously try to finish errands you have to do outside on one occasion. 305: Middle aged woman in a barber shop asks you, "Have you decided whether you start working or have advanced education?" Number unknown: SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY 317: >>305 I'm scared of that type of question so I can't go to a barber shop. 353: Your eyes are always those of women who's just been raped. 375: You research about the ways to get profit from stock exchange market or foreign currencies exchanges, but you end up knowing only someone whon knows the way to make profits can survive. 411: You start to get less interested in buying things (you want.) 423: You groom yourself and wear nice clothes to go out but all of a sudden, you feel like you don't go out and changes clothes to the one you wear in your room again. 461: You feel sorry for your parents being nice to you. 473: >>461 I'm too sorry for my parents smile at me. 474: When I think it's about time to get out of my hikikomori situation, I'm scared of eyes. Number unknown: People around me ask if I'm OK, worrying about me, but that's just painful to me. 509: I feel peaceful on Saturdays and Sundays because I kind of think that everybody doesn't work on these days so I have a right to have a rest on these days, too.