I was wondering, what people would actually do in that situation. Its somewhat expectable thing in some horror games, but i dont think i have seen the concept explored in this light.
Lets say you get an emergency message to your phone, the one they use to inform people of things like toxic chemical spills, accidents and everything. The message informs you to stay indoors and expressively says that you should not look outside no matter what, but does not clarify further why. And the message is repeated enough times that its clear its not joke/hoax/error.
What would you do?
Well, I instinctively went to look at soon as I read the title of your post, so
Look outside, obviously
Immediately
Compulsively
Yeah but like really quickly at first. Just a peek.
I’d look at my camera feeds to see what’s outside without looking outside
Same. I’m too lazy sometimes that I’d rather check my camera feed instead of getting off the couch to look out the window.
One time i needed to go across the street to pick something up from another house. I used the live football on TV to see if it was still raining because it was at the local grounds. Getting up to twitch the curtains just seemed like effort.
I’d look outside bfore even finishing reading the message
also from different windows and angles till i see whatever it is
If the moon is out, I would stay indoors, block all moonlight from entering, and break all of my mirrors. Not falling for that again.
Again? 👀
All of their videos are sooo good!
Check online, see what’s going on.
Christmas lights being lit up!
Ho ho It’s the Christmas time yo!
I’d look, of course. Phenomena that can kill you just by looking at them exist only in horror stories and movies.
Funny you should use that word. There is an audiodrama called The Phenomenon with this exact premise. I wonder if OP just listened to it.
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/shaggydredlocks-proposal
Click “access file” to read the whole story
Radiation says hello
The looking is not what kills you there.
UV-B / UV-C radiation will pretty much require you to look :)
That’s why you can only get a sunburn if your eyes are open, right?
No but you would go blind long before a sunburn happened.
Silly radiation can’t get me if my eyes are closed.
DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON
I would immediately and involuntarily have looked outside immediately after the first message.
Human instincts are dumb like that.
If they don’t explain why, then that’s suspicious. I’d think that someone hacked the emergency alert system for some kind of ARG or joke.
Get someone else to look inside. I have seen Indiana Jones.
Roll my eyes and get pissed off that my local TV channel is having technical problems. Again.
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It’s one of the most annoying movie/TV tropes. “Don’t do this. Bad things will happen!” No explanation of what or why because there’s no time or “you wouldn’t understand.” So, of course, they do it. (And, so would I.)
Immediately kills suspension of disbelief.
How i thought about is that knowledge of the threat lowers your chance of survival so they have to be vague
Telling people not to do something with no compelling explanation will surely increase the odds of people doing that thing. Honestly, the better strategy would be to say nothing.
I can’t think of an example where knowledge of a threat lowers one’s chance of survival.
If it makes you panic
