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If you're scared of liminal spaces, like are you also afraid of certain colors or scent? What other dumb fear is in the list.

It‘s really weird, when I first stumbled across liminal spaces I thought they were weird and somehow creepy. Like images out of an unpleasant dream. Then I forgot about all of it until a specific day when something really strange happened to me. One day, while I was cleaning my kitchen I was listening to music and sat down at the kitchentable to wipe it clean. I looked over to the window and the exact same feeling of liminality washed over me and lingered around me for quite some time to the point where I completely forgot to continue cleaning the kitchen, I didn’t even know why. But this time it didn’t feel weird or creepy at all. Right the opposite actually. It felt very special and unique. A bit artificial even. Then I watched Severance on Apple TV a short time later and fell in love with the clear imagery and calmness that comes with it. I guess I‘m weird. And that‘s fine with me 😊

This would explain why I love being in empty parking garages on rainy days.

All I see is how comforting liminal spaces are and how you wanna get away but like damn.. What about the ones were you feel creeped out and fascinated at the same one. I still associate it with the back rooms though I've never played. Creepy but has a potential story or twilight zone kinda thing going on idk..

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Always loved liminal spaces. Reminds me of the phrase that art will often disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed

I dig the dream pool vibe, I think it's nice

The desire to disappear is also known as depression.

One that really got me was one that's rarely ever talked about. I think it was called 'Little Darlings'. It had a picture of a sort of uncanny boy doll in a sailor outfit. It was about a family who's child went missing and hired a private investigator to search for the missing child. He found out, a creepy guy had kidnapped and taxidermied a bunch of children and was selling them on the deep web. I can't believe this didn't become one of the big creepypastas, it was by far scarier than many of the famous ones.

5:45 what the fuck man i live in that basement.

Can i hug you?

I think part of the discomfort comes from the fact that places like that for the most part don't exist anymore(the ones with the 90s or 2000s vibes)

Thank you for making this video. I genuinely cried when you said, “it’s because we’re supposed to fill the void.” As someone who is introverted and suffers with anxiety, I have always felt a sense of peace looking at images like these, whether highly saturated with colors or plain and dimly lit. The absense of people or “coming from/going to/" in especially large spaces puts me at ease because I don’t feel pressured to rush an experience or feel like I have to “wait” to enjoy life, and I can simply move at my own pace. It’s hard to explain, but you captured my own thoughts so well, and so many others’ I’m sure. You’ve earned a subsciber my friend; I look forward to seeing more from you.

many of the pictures don't really do it for me but that toys r us one at 8:02 got me

Miss your videos man.

Out of nowhere, this video unlocked my memory, where in high school third I went to Kidzania, and every memory I have is now very liminal.

Some of the photos remind me of the movie, James and the Giant Peach or The Talos Principal puzzle game for some reason. ^^;

Someone could get rich if they made a ''backrooms'' experience, like a big building with different rooms, no one else around but your self, just for an hour (or even more)

I was gonna make a video about this iceberg, but it looks like scrabbl explained it better then I can

21:26 As for comfort water helps in that aspect with it's calming properties. But we can also see a lot of bright neuteral colors, bright blue and mostly warm lighting

13:23 the red light does NOT look like a pedestrian and a bike

My old place of work closed due to covid. I was trusted to lock up after everyone had left as usual but it slowly became dofferent over time. What was once a non liminal space had become one as machinery was slowly sold off over time. I remember once, one of the very last days, I had turned off the lights and was about to leave when I stopped. I turned back and walked to a corner of the now empty production floor and slid down the wall. I sat there for like 20 minutes and cried. I felt like the building itself was grieving with me. But I was able to sit for as long as I needed. I took the time to process. It was nice, stepping outside of the world for a while. I enjoyed the quiet if being alone with my grief. The dark was soothing. When I see these pictures, Inremember that day and it makes me feel better. Sometimes when I'm having a particularly bad or trying day I wish I could go back there. I genuinely loved that place and the connections and memories made there.

literally me

you feel like in the way you did as a child when you once got lost, when you went to school for the first time, when there were monsters all over your calm playroom

love the caretaker music

empty highways really get to me as being on road trips in California when I was growing there were often times where no cars were on the road but us and I’d just look out into the quite expansive hills and grassland or farms and they looked just like the images that are used for the liminal spaces

You said, "You recognise liminal space images by the way they make you feel." I had never really thought about it. Some of them feel lonely or creepy and others feel peaceful but when I really thought about it... they feel like waiting. The space is waiting. Sometimes its an exciting anticipation. Sometimes a feeling of looming dread. Sometimes just patience. But through all the images there is a sense of something waiting for something to happen. Someone to arrive, for the viewer to leave, for a car to drive the highway, feet to tread the empty hall, new people to come to the empty house, the children to return to their toys... it all waits. Perhaps it isn't what has come before the image but the maybes of what might come after... I think thats why some people find them eery. The unknown of whats next. But that same unknown can also feel comfortable. Out of our hands. A sense of our smallness and that whatever will be will be. A paused moment in time to breathe before the next thing happens. Before we return to our own problems. For a little while, our issues can fade into the emptyness of that void, the pause between moments, the liminality of the image. Theses images are like the World of Stephan kings langoliers. The empty waiting airport where everything is stale and spent. The new moment of time hasn't arrived yet but the last one is gone. Liminal space images are transitional, they are perhaps the space between seconds. The transitional space between two moments of time.

The 1st and 2nd silent hill games have excellent examples of liminal spaces.

I think liminal space gives us a feeling of dream like de ja vu, not in a sense we have been there, but a desire to be there… in a dream like trance where it feels familiar and yet unfamiliar, where the lost and forgotten sense we get gives us a connecting feeling to that of our past where we can’t go back to when we look at pictures of childhood. And where there’s no sense of time, only the present moment and forever. It makes one feel calm, and peaceful. Same vibes as an indoor water park in my perspective. EDIT- I just realised that liminal space gives me the same feeling as when I’m walking outside at dusk or dawn!! It’s like an in between time. A twilight zone feeling when the world looks stuck in time- there’s no sun or moon, there’s mist or dim lighting, a time when lights are aglow but the sky is still bright enough to feel like you don’t know when it is. And it honestly feels like a different dimension.

16:20 No, it comes from the fact that the ceiling just seems to be unnaturally low; the fact that the "window" is just a hole on the wall; the fact that said window is line up against the ceiling, without any borders. A fundamental trigger for the feeling of liminal spaces is unnatural architecture. Architecture that feels wrong: Windows up against the wall; Low ceilings; Unnaturally thin/wide/tall/short corridors; Random seems in the wall; Doors at unreachable areas; Another fundamental trigger, apart from the lack of people, is the lack of objects that we expect to be present: Fire extinguishers on the wall; Smoke detectors on the ceilings; Brand logos/signage; Advertisements; Vehicles; Electrical outlets; Light switches; etc. Again another trigger is the opposite of the previous point: Objects that don't belong in a particular place being there anyway: A good example is that old TV in the photograph showed at 16:22; Or seeing a lonely (non-foldable) chair in the middle of a concrete outdoor area;

I still find the catalogue pictures "liminal" in a way. Like I feel like I've had dreams of or been in places like those when I was very young. I noticed that not all "liminal" spaces fit one description and some actually feel really comforting and cozy in a "they make the world feel big by emphasizing what a small corner of the world this must be" kind of way. Me and my sister refer to this specific phenomenon as "microscenic." Kind of like playing a song you love deep in a hidden forest, or focusing on a really small corner of an opera house.

Liminal spaces freak me out more and more. I think that’s what is so unsettling about The Shining. Full of liminal spaces on top of loneliness.

I feel like people should make an area dedicated to liminal spaces, i would love to visit one!!!

Even though this is a year old, i am still gonna say it. Liminal spaces are, well liminal. But that is far from it's full extent. It features man-made structures like you said, but what you didn't mention is that the feeling it invokes is exactly as simple as it is: Abandonment and loneliness. And it makes perfect sense. Train stops, hallways, rooms, highways, they should be full of life, either human or aesthetic. Just like in the image in the beginning: the room you showed with no children, it has no aesthetic light. It feels old, even the camera lens hints at it, While the promotional image has aesthetic light and modern quality. Liminal spaces do not have either Aesthetic or human/animal life. It's exactly like this: Someone built this place, it was used, and now nobody is here. The history it went through led to it's abandonment, which can feel like eternity, and eternity invokes loneliness. But i like the sensation of it. I want to wander and explore these abandoned spaces for as long as i could, cherishing every little detail, every tile, every brick, every misplaced piece of furniture, every little pile of moss growing from a concrete crack. It's something comforting. It feels like you are left behind, from a place that you are no longer supposed to be in, and that is what liminal spaces are. At least in my opinion

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I started crying at the end 😭 I’ve always loved liminal spaces but it was difficult to even explain why, this video really put my emotions into words

I think the future seems so hopeless that people are desperately trying to live in the past. Constantly seeking things that give them a childlike feeling of nostalgia. This is a condition that isn't supposed to hit you until you're 40 or so. But it's affecting younger people now

Have you ever felt down?.. like you don't belong anywhere?... Of course you have,.. we all have day like that from time to time. One of those days were nothing went well.. maybe you've embarrassed yourself, maybe you failed at something important, maybe you just struggled to socialize, even if you don't want to admit it sometimes you just get frustrated with life.. Days where you just want to disappear from reality... Whatever it is, it drags you down.. it makes you feel empty, and defeated, you drag your self home where you are safe, and where you can finally lie down in exhaustion. Maybe you start reminiscing about the past.. how it all used to be better, and you ask yourself when it all started going downhill, sometimes it appears that life used to be better when you were just a dumb, ignorant kid. When the only thing that worried you was that you weren't back from school in time to watch your favorite TV show.. I had many of those days, and on one of those days, I dragged my self onto the couch, and aimlessly scrolled through reddit, in order to distract my mind.. I came across a video compilation of liminal spaces accompanied by melancholic and calm music.. I've seen tons of liminal spaces before this moment, it was a topic that I found to be very interesting, and yet, at that moment, it was like I discovered them for the vary first time, again, I've never looked at liminal spaces the way I did at that moment before.. I felt.. comfortable, looking at them, I felt.. safe. It's almost like the pictures reignited with me on an emotional level. It surprised me.. Empty. Artificial. Dark. Uncanny. They broke every rule for what a picture takes to be comfortable, and yet.. at that moment, they comforted me way more than any comfortable picture ever could.. Why did I suddenly find comfort in those usually creepy pictures?.. At that moment, where life got me down, where I didn't know what to do with myself, where I was lost, I could sort of relate to liminal spaces.. emptiness, sorrow, disorientation, loneliness. They reminded me of myself. I saw in them what was happening inside me. I felt understood by some random pictures on the internet. In some way I could relate to them. The combination of those feeling and the nostalgia that those pictures provided, made me feel at ease. With all the stress and all the crap that's going on, those seemingly insignificant moments are what keep you going. Because when things get tough and you have no one to talk to and sometimes you don't even want to talk with anyone. Sometimes it forces us to see things from a different perspective and sometimes we see in art a reflection of ourselves and what we are going through. After all, isn't that what art is supposed to do?.. Have you ever wondered why liminal spaces feel so empty?.. It's because your supposed to fill the void, to escape reality even if its just for a brief moment and explore a world where you and your feelings are completely free. Liminal spaces are the most comforting when your mentally at your lowest. And I know there are people watching this after having one of those bad days, people who have been through a lot lately, people who need a break from reality, people who desire to disappear.. and even if your misery continues tomorrow I want your to take a minuet from your day and embrace the emptiness...

I'm about to cry after this one.. it's like this guy is reading my soul

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I have found my people

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A friend shared with my songs from the caretaker at a time when i was at my lowest, qnd it took me back to my childhood with old cartoons that played older band and orchestral music, for the opening and closing, middle or entire episode. You know the ones. Loonytunes, tom n jerry, even disney. At these times, i was my most alone. Making friends was hard, keeping them was harder, and when o got older i was becoming more isolated or left out by peers who saw my as strange, not just because i was a cringe kid, but because i was not the same as or familiar to them and their interests. Quiet, dark, empty lonely places were what i was used to. Classrooms, churches, stadiums n gyms, fields, pathways, and even homes and pool areas. Used to be placesbi felt most pained, then i adapted to finding the most confort in these places. Alone, away from the judgmental voices and faces and fingers, criticizing or making light of me. My own huge space all to myself. My own liminal spaces. When i first heard The Caretaker in 2016, i felt nostalgic. Now im learning of liminal spaces as a meme, and i feel at home.

I think the thing for me that makes my brain immediately identify a liminal location or image, is empty space where there shouldn't be any, and that can either be weirdly terrifying, or comforting, as if you are in a place where no one but you exists, and you are the only one to behold the empty space. It is a warm feeling, one that I have had since I was a kid in certain places but have been unable to describe.

I've always associated liminal spaces with the words "nostalgic", "dystopian", and "apocalyptic".

Liminal spaces just remind me of abandoned buildings and such. I like the idea of exploring them, but not staying in them. Even exploring a liminal space in Minecraft makes me a little paranoid, and that's just in a game. Backrooms lore wise, I honestly hate the idea of adding monsters to it. I think it's just as effective knowing you're alone, but getting paranoid thinking you're not, instead of knowing something is there and trying to escape it.

This definition in this video is too broad to be useful because the term itself is extremely vague. A lit up gas station at night on an empty highway is like an oasis. A decaying, abandoned 1980's mall is like a reminder that time is passing, and we've overstayed our welcome. They're both broadly liminal spaces, but they're categorically different. Maybe the commonality is that people who don't feel welcome anywhere can at least feel welcome in these public spaces where everyone has passed through but where no one lives. The themes of anachronism, abandonment, decay and mortality seem to be strong but not quite essential elements in the modern usage.

Did you just Rick Roll us with a liminal image?? 😂

What is the background song?