For me, liminal spaces seem nostalgic, especially the ones with the empty play rooms and those patterned carpets. Guess childhood comes into play with that.
It’s so fascinating to now know of liminal spaces and be able to re-examine certain childhood memories with this new lens. Memories that always stood out to you for some reason, but you could never quite put your finger on exactly why. They just felt off, weird, eery but not necessarily in a bad way. And now you realize those were liminal experiences you were having. So interesting!
I kind of wish to see a horror/mystery story revolving around liminal spaces, they're quite unnerving and creepy. Like, imagine a show about a person trapped in a Backrooms-like space, unable to return to their regular lives, and finding themselves pursued by whatever lives in the liminal space
Like the shining? They are trapped in the hotel which is this huge empty space. They are completely and utterly alone in this hotel and made to go crazy by what lies in the hotel beyond the surface.
I know, right? He kept saying stuff like, "Humans really HATE things like this" while showing pictures of places I'd love to encounter and just take a nap on the floor of
One of the oddest places I’ve ever been, in real life, that gave me a similar feeling as all of these photos- that being, a feeling of nostalgia, but also this weird, itchy feeling,, like I was someplace I wasn’t supposed to be at- is the Orlando Airport. Specifically the Hyatt hotel inside of it. My family loves to take trips down to Florida whenever we get the chance, and the last time we went, our flight got in at around 1-2 am in the morning. It was dark outside, and when we were walking out, we had to pass through that old, weird, sealed in, yellow-tinted courtyard, and it just felt so... unsettling, being the only group of people walking through this eerily built area in a place that would normally have hundreds of people bustling through it. While I’ve never been one to frighten easily, especially when it comes to things like the back rooms and the supernatural (in fact, I have an interest in both), the feeling you get when you step into a completely deserted area, particularly one that just feels...old and grainy.. is just something you can’t shake off easily
Liminal spaces give a strange sense of comfort for me. It makes me feel like a kid again. I have really, really bad anxiety, So seeing these images gives me some strange feeling, a good yet empty one.
One of the strangest dreams I ever had and I remember vividly to this day was when I was about 5 or so, I dreamed of an empty gas station. I was there all alone, no mom, no dad, no cars, locked door to the gas station and only a lone street light illuminating the road and the gas station's overhead lights. To keep the darkness at bay. There were no stars and no sounds just myself left alone to my thoughts. Funny enough I found myself in this strange space after having a very exciting dream and taking a door that lead to this place. I was playing with Spyro the dragon before I landed there if you're curious. I sat there alone for a very long time. How long, I have no clue. At some point it dawned on me that I was dreaming. So I tried desperately to wake myself for a while by attempting to "fall" awake. Before long I gave up and sat there a while longer. Eventually I closed my eyes super tight in fear and frustration wishing that lonely place away. I woke up sobbing.
The reason these images scare/disturb us is because they're "familiar and unfamiliar" at the same time and our brains don't know what to make of this phenomenon and thus go into "fear" mode.
When I look at these pictures I never think "I recognize this place", I don't feel nostalgia either. I never felt that way. I think the theory I can get behind is the one where your mind always wants to fill in the context or give meaning to something. Something's off with the backrooms because it's an empty room for no reason, maybe it's creepy but if it's creepy why is it not ugly? Eerie. I mean, it's pretty easy for me to say that an image has a texture or something that I had seen somewhere before. But I never feel like I had been in those places before because I am pretty sure I haven't. It may have something to do with not being american (Structures are different). I like to think that a lot of people don't have this effect just like me, and it's popular for people to have this effect.
Pretty interesting that you brought up the american thing. That might be true bc I feel like I do only see americans talk about these liminal spaces in this light. Also I like that you put out your opinion. You did it in a respectful manor instead of just saying "nah this idea is stupid." Thanks for sharing! always love knowing the other side of things
@@theorist Yeah structures are just different and they use different materials, design, and textures, you can look at pics on buildings from Italy or Spain. Parks, suburban houses, or playgrounds. They are not significantly different, but they are different Malls are very similar in many places though. Same materials and all. Same with theme parks and other stuff. It's not really a wealth thing (not always). It's just different cultures, natural climate, history, and -tax evasion- smart money investments Edit: oh, if you look it up, keep in mind that the results may try to show you tourist attractions. Stock images tend to be more realistic I guess
@@simonghoul3602 That's an interesting theory. Do you get the "eerie nostalgia" feeling if the empty areas/structures have a similar architecture to where you live?
@@profoundpunk I feel nothing Usually it feels as if they are meant to be creepy and they are just a creepy background for a song or for what the video is trying to do
@@simonghoul3602 Are you creeped out by liminal space pictures at all, just without the nostalgia, or do they just not do anything for you? If so, if you don't mind me asking, what does scare you?
Love the video! Need more! But no ghosts, no demons, no paranormal anything, no spirits, nothing like that. Liminal space is good b/c it fucks with you psychologically - makes you think and wonder. Not because there's some "presence" or some jump scare or some fictitious stuff. To me liminal space is being in a place where you know or feel there is life but you don't see it. Being in a game map where you hear cars and trains in the distance but there is no one around. Or being in a house where life was going on and yet the place is completely empty.
I've had this weird dream. Not sure if it's liminal space or something. I "woke up" from my bed. Everything looked the same. Nothing different, but it was quiet. Too quiet. I decided to look around and left my bedroom. Everything was in place. Toys, plants, stairs and rooms. I went downstairs, no one was there. My parents were gone. And so was my sister. I thought maybe they were outside, having a good time. I opened the back yard door and.... "A forest..?" I asked myself. I never had a forest in my backyard. But curious formed me, so I entered. It was familiar, tho unverving. Birds chirped, trees grew. But, something didn't make sense. And soon, it hit me. I saw something. A tall, black figure with a goat skull as a head. I turned around and walked fastly. I look behind me and I saw it again. I ran and ran. But the backyard wasn't there anymore. The forest consumed me, I yelled "WAKE ME UP" and I felt like something or someone was ontop of me. I woke up after that. Now I see it outside sometimes. But, my relatives think its just my mind playing tricks on my eyes. Or is it..? Either way. Thanks for reading! Have a great day! :)
Considering that you can not scream and you felt someone near maybe it was sleep paralysis? But idk about that you see it outside sometimes, it can be starting mental illness, I suggest you go check it. Stay strong brother
I love liminal spaces because as a child that’s basically what my dreams were about. Empty spaces. But the only image that I dont like from this video is 3:17 because i feel like someone or some creature could pop out at any second and attack me💀
I think for a lot of people, at least for me, these pictures feel a bit like dreams, in the way that they're distinctly familiar but in an eerie, off kilter way. I know that for me at least, I have jumbled dreams often set in places from my childhood and that includes old fashioned houses, arcades, indoor play areas, shopping malls, hotels, etc. Pretty much all the same places these images feature. So it's not surprising I guess that in a thread of liminal spaces, every other image or more can trigger that weird uncomfortable familiarity. They've always been really interesting to me.
I dont get liminal spaces. Like I do get a feeling when I look at a lot of these pictures, but not just the pictures of like spaces that can be described as transistional. I get a feeling looking at weird pools and midcentury modern suburbs and brutalist architecture and the illustrations of Chris Van Allsburg books, but none of those are really defined as transistional. Now there are plenty of examples of transistional spaces that give me this feeling, but that's not what defines them. It's just an off feeling. I imagine these spaces were designed by eldritch horrors who almost understood human design asethetics but couldn't help but subconsciously add a little eldritch influence.
I think everyone feels that "nonhuman architecture" to some extent, this video just focused on the nostalgia aspect some more, which not everyone feels due to being from areas with different culture and architecture and such.
I have a recurring dream that feels like a liminal space. Its always the same house, i dont recognize it but it feels familiar. I dont remember venturing past the boundaries of the yard and i only interact with one peraon, my late wife. I never hear her voice but we still somehow communicate. After waking, i aways feel like I did something wrong and I wasnt supposed to be at that house.
For me they are big empty spaces that you might have be familiar with at some point, like an empty mall at night. The fact that no is there makes the scene, on a place that should be crowded with people. Not this spirit thing.
The backrooms is how I described the layout/atmosphere/vibe of the last office I worked in. Also why I left the last office I worked in and now work from home. Shit was unsettling.
Similar to noclipping video games, liminal spaces are a view into a piece of reality where reality is "unloaded". The simulation isn't currently powering this area. You're "seeing behind the curtain", so to speak. Your brain expects a mall to be bustling and full of people, a common area. Same with school. When you see it "unloaded", it makes you think something bad happened there and that's why it creeps you out. Going to back ancient times, your ancestors may have encountered a space where the tribe used to live, and it's abandoned without life, it's very likely that space became uninhabitable. There are pretty much 0 good reasons this would be the case, so it instill fear.
I don’t think most people understand Liminal spaces. Everyone says it’s a transitional space and whatnot but that’s all they really say and from all my experience it’s more than that. It should be a space that invokes a storage sense of nostalgia and familiarity. It should seem at least a little retro or outdated, it should be devoid or mostly devoid of the loose objects you might expect to find there (chairs, papers, phones, computers). A liminal Space is always benefited by poor lighting in some capacity, wether it’s a lack of sufficient lighting or is lit by dingy off color lights. And it always helps to have some level of seemingly nonsensical architecture. For me it should seem like a place outside of time. The space between spaces. A void consisting of the structures of our world crudely slapped together as if constructed by a creator unfamiliar with us and our world and lacking the necessary context of the environment.
These liminal spaces (specifically retail and arcade type joints) are like a mental before and after picture in the sense that we know what once was but it’s not there anymore
I liked this video! I've always loved the mystery of liminal spaces, empty spaces where people should be just feel so jarring to be in, and it's cool that it's a human-wide phenomenon. It was also fun seeing the photos of liminal spaces/ThE bAcKrOoMs because I hadn't seen some of those pics before, and like I said it's cool to see others experiences with the spaces hehe I also really enjoy how you linked the sponsor into this video! A lot of channels kind of shoehorn sponsor ads in, but it flowed so well in this video, so well done for awesome script writing hehe
I think the best example for me is when a store i worked in for 4 years went out of business.... Seeing the store empty and all logos and signs slowly being removed from the store until it was completely empty just had a surreal feeling to it. Really made me think a lot about all the people I met there and worked with every day and all the different events and interesting moments i had there.
it's cause we've all been in a classroom after/before hours and it being virtually empty. that little yellow tint, constant low frequency buzzing that is quiet but definitely there. and feeling out of place. like you know you're there very temporarily, so it isn't creepy.
Narrator: I know what your are thinking... Me: Whoa, what is this weird place? Narrator: You've seen this room before. Me: ?! Also me: ...no, I definitely didn't.
most of these liminal spaces are based on american nostalgia, the old arcades, swimming pools, attraction parks,etc so if ur not american or have experiences on this types of places, it takes a part of the "experience"
Please make longer videos 🤣😭 my RUclipsrs don’t upload quality videos like this and it takes them days. I be up all night anxious tryna find content like this
you should check out my iceberg video if you haven't already. I'm planning on doing more uploads like this one in the future though. I think the next on my list is the walten files
The hotel that was shown and described as wired because of the outdoor elements, I can almost 98% guarantee I've been to that hotel. It was a city in Kansas we went to for a youth group conference for the church... I specifically remember wanting to go in the spiral staircase because you don't see a lot of those. Off to the side there were a few claw machines of candy right outside the door to the gym and pool.
as someone who is developing schizophrenia I feel like this in every environment liminal or not I feel like it detached from reality like I'm observing myself on top of dread and liminality
Eyyy. Whenever someone calls me their favorite RUclipsr i always feel like im dreaming. Not even lying like its so bizarre to me. Thanks for sharing that :)
I found myself many times in similar places while doing urbex, I wasn't aware of the name and definition -I feel particularly drawn to the fact that empty/liminal spaces sometimes have a very dreamlike quality. I'm not easily scared but I wouldn't go there alone either lol. The worst experience I had was when a gf of a friend stopped mid sentence while we were about to come down from a stairway, she was clearly panicking and saying "something terrible happened there, I won't go there" she was really shaking and we were on the roof of an abandoned colony in the mountains, open air and nothing creepy or weird was in sight. I can't say I wasn't affected by her reaction at the moment, we kept joking and talking to keep her mood up and we actually didn't come down from the evil stairs.
I like to put myself into liminal state in real life. How? well, go into a public building, and just use the stairs instead of the elevator, you'll see what I mean. Ah but I forgot to mention : do it completely alone.
I got the feeling of once being somewhere in a liminal space picture before. The picture was of a video game arcade that looks straight out of the mid 1980s. I wasn't born until the early 2000s. Although, I have been to more modern-looking arcades and have seen them in popular media before. Season 2 of Stranger Things has one of those arcades, and it takes place in the 1980s, so I may get the feeling from that. An empty gas station at night with the lights still on looks unsettling because I'm sure we've all been there. Gas stations are suppose to have people and cars visiting them. If the lights are on, there should be people but if there isn't it tricks the primal parts of the human brain into thinking something isn't right and that this scenario might be dangerous. But you know it's just a picture. It can't hurt you, although your subconscious is still saying "Hey, we might want to get out of here. Somethings isn't right." Even if a space doesn't feel liminal to you, it still can feel creepy. There's this one of a seemingly underground room with brick walls. A pool of water is in the center, with 3 pipes with openings resembling mouths pouring water into said pool. That one is just weird, and your brain tries and fails to make sense of it, so your subconscious receives it as a threat even though it's just a picture.
here's the thing when you say "you had seen this room before" I am always going to say no. Telling me to do something or to belief something or anything similar is always going to make me not want to do it. I don't know what this is called, but it has a name to it So no, I don't recognize a single one of these images (well, probably also because I am not american) Edit: I shared this hoping that this would be like a trick that makes someone immune to a liminal space, but it isn't because the video is about more than that u_u
You sound like me when anyone asks me to do anything 😂 “Well you seem to want me to do it. That makes me not want to do it” me af I feel ya tho. Its a hit or miss honestly. Thanks for sharing tho
I find it strange that people are apparently weirded out by liminal spaces. I like them. When i encounter them, i tend to linger and soak up the ambiance.
If you liked that then you should watch a channel on youtube called baphomet kun. Tons of those transitions. I didnt make that one tho. It was composed by an AI that was taught only liminal spaces
@@theorist i took a look on baphomet Kun and is very interesting but is the ai with liminal spaces that blow my mind. If I can't find more of this stuff i will try to do it my self xD
The train station in the matrix reloaded, also reminds me of the definition of a liminal space, as it seeminly goes on forever, at each end of the tunnel, and there is technically no entrance, nor exit except for the tunnel itself, which seems impossible to travel through.
3:39 I’ve been there …??? But I’m a crazy scary dream I’ve had it’s really creepy to see this rn an only watching this video for the 1st time ever ??… 🤯 weird. I wonder if I seen this before without knowing I’ve seen it or something idk but I can vividly remember that entire dream an it’s been 6 months since I’ve had it. I just remember every detail from that dream cause it was odd. Followed by another dream I had that I can remember very well but I havnt seen anything like that so it doesn’t worry me as much as this one. Ughh weird 😣
listen.. i love spooky online horror but this phenomena is just… not it. those photos look vaguely familiar because they’re similar to things we’d seen as kids. i HATE when people say shit like that.
I think liminal spaces are a look into the subconscious part of your mind, all the objects in these photos are things that everyone within a reasonably broad age has seen before but their not important enough to consciously keep in the four front of your mind, that’s why you get that dream like feeling
That place reminds me of an abandoned Chuck E. Cheese or Huckleberry Junction something because those carpets are identical to the ones Huckleberry Junction
Does _anything_ qualify as a liminal space these days? People apply the term "liminal space" to damn near anything. I realize the feeling of liminality is largely subjective, but I do think there is a relatively clear distinction between liminal spaces and normal spaces. Like any popular topic, people take it too far and turn it into a cliché.
The first time I realized i was traveling through a liminal space was after my sleep test. It was 5 am and I went from my room to a hallway and to my car. The hallway was long and so empty
I've never gotten the deja vu or nostalgia people describe when seeing liminal spaces. I think some of them are kind of creepy particularly bc it feels like youre all alone or like youre not supposed to be there
There are so many videos about liminal spaces out there, this one is really not the best for the definition of it, though i suppose its their take on it so... transitional spaces don't typically include gas stations and the like, to most peoples take on liminal spaces
Great video dude, I love things like this where it makes you think. Intriguing. Especially when I'm learning something new where it makes me think when I'm traveling and seeing new places. Like you said you always think about it and I always wonder: "what was this place before?" After looking at the surroundings.
@@ShunnyV2 i meant that the entire theme of liminal spaces is tied to the back rooms, so you didn't need to watch the video to know that the back rooms would have been discussed too
I have no idea how examples like these can affect people. No, seriously, i just dont feel what you guys mean. It's just an empty hotel lobby. It's just a closed-up mall. It's an area. to be used. not being used right now, but it can be. SO?
If you have seem the baphoment kun video then you have heard me say it. I did it on purpose bc if youve seen that video and dont remember it. Itll have this weird deja vu effect on u. I dont really care about ruining that effect by explaining rn tho. Its only meant to hit you while u watch the video
What if there is sort of like a Jungian analysis for this? Like these certain familiar settings which we call 'liminal spaces' are a kind of environmental archetype? I don't know...
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For me, liminal spaces seem nostalgic, especially the ones with the empty play rooms and those patterned carpets. Guess childhood comes into play with that.
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It’s so fascinating to now know of liminal spaces and be able to re-examine certain childhood memories with this new lens. Memories that always stood out to you for some reason, but you could never quite put your finger on exactly why. They just felt off, weird, eery but not necessarily in a bad way. And now you realize those were liminal experiences you were having. So interesting!
nice pun
I kind of wish to see a horror/mystery story revolving around liminal spaces, they're quite unnerving and creepy. Like, imagine a show about a person trapped in a Backrooms-like space, unable to return to their regular lives, and finding themselves pursued by whatever lives in the liminal space
Like the shining? They are trapped in the hotel which is this huge empty space. They are completely and utterly alone in this hotel and made to go crazy by what lies in the hotel beyond the surface.
If Saki Sanobashi was real then it would fit that concept perfectly
oh please don’t tell me you believe the backrooms are real…
@@jillianc7485 Dude I know they're fiction, but I find them super fascinating
Shining might be the kind of movie you are looking for
I love liminal spaces - there's something so peaceful & beautifully melancholy about them.
Same,they're just so comforting to me,a weird little nostalgic feeling
I know, right? He kept saying stuff like, "Humans really HATE things like this" while showing pictures of places I'd love to encounter and just take a nap on the floor of
same,,
@@mythicallymoist9772 same
being away from people isn't bad when it's done voluntarily
One of the oddest places I’ve ever been, in real life, that gave me a similar feeling as all of these photos- that being, a feeling of nostalgia, but also this weird, itchy feeling,, like I was someplace I wasn’t supposed to be at- is the Orlando Airport. Specifically the Hyatt hotel inside of it. My family loves to take trips down to Florida whenever we get the chance, and the last time we went, our flight got in at around 1-2 am in the morning. It was dark outside, and when we were walking out, we had to pass through that old, weird, sealed in, yellow-tinted courtyard, and it just felt so... unsettling, being the only group of people walking through this eerily built area in a place that would normally have hundreds of people bustling through it. While I’ve never been one to frighten easily, especially when it comes to things like the back rooms and the supernatural (in fact, I have an interest in both), the feeling you get when you step into a completely deserted area, particularly one that just feels...old and grainy.. is just something you can’t shake off easily
I was thinking the same thing when the carpeted courtyard picture showed up. The Orlando airport is weird
I’m glad you uploaded this one now, cause it’s daytime and I hopefully won’t lose sleep over it
LOLL. I wonder if a lot of people do this 😂
@@theorist hello
Liminal spaces give a strange sense of comfort for me. It makes me feel like a kid again. I have really, really bad anxiety, So seeing these images gives me some strange feeling, a good yet empty one.
One of the strangest dreams I ever had and I remember vividly to this day was when I was about 5 or so, I dreamed of an empty gas station.
I was there all alone, no mom, no dad, no cars, locked door to the gas station and only a lone street light illuminating the road and the gas station's overhead lights. To keep the darkness at bay. There were no stars and no sounds just myself left alone to my thoughts.
Funny enough I found myself in this strange space after having a very exciting dream and taking a door that lead to this place. I was playing with Spyro the dragon before I landed there if you're curious.
I sat there alone for a very long time. How long, I have no clue. At some point it dawned on me that I was dreaming. So I tried desperately to wake myself for a while by attempting to "fall" awake. Before long I gave up and sat there a while longer. Eventually I closed my eyes super tight in fear and frustration wishing that lonely place away.
I woke up sobbing.
The reason these images scare/disturb us is because they're "familiar and unfamiliar" at the same time and our brains don't know what to make of this phenomenon and thus go into "fear" mode.
When I look at these pictures I never think "I recognize this place", I don't feel nostalgia either. I never felt that way.
I think the theory I can get behind is the one where your mind always wants to fill in the context or give meaning to something. Something's off with the backrooms because it's an empty room for no reason, maybe it's creepy but if it's creepy why is it not ugly? Eerie.
I mean, it's pretty easy for me to say that an image has a texture or something that I had seen somewhere before. But I never feel like I had been in those places before because I am pretty sure I haven't. It may have something to do with not being american (Structures are different). I like to think that a lot of people don't have this effect just like me, and it's popular for people to have this effect.
Pretty interesting that you brought up the american thing. That might be true bc I feel like I do only see americans talk about these liminal spaces in this light.
Also I like that you put out your opinion. You did it in a respectful manor instead of just saying "nah this idea is stupid." Thanks for sharing! always love knowing the other side of things
@@theorist Yeah structures are just different and they use different materials, design, and textures, you can look at pics on buildings from Italy or Spain. Parks, suburban houses, or playgrounds. They are not significantly different, but they are different
Malls are very similar in many places though. Same materials and all. Same with theme parks and other stuff.
It's not really a wealth thing (not always). It's just different cultures, natural climate, history, and -tax evasion- smart money investments
Edit: oh, if you look it up, keep in mind that the results may try to show you tourist attractions. Stock images tend to be more realistic I guess
@@simonghoul3602 That's an interesting theory. Do you get the "eerie nostalgia" feeling if the empty areas/structures have a similar architecture to where you live?
@@profoundpunk I feel nothing
Usually it feels as if they are meant to be creepy and they are just a creepy background for a song or for what the video is trying to do
@@simonghoul3602 Are you creeped out by liminal space pictures at all, just without the nostalgia, or do they just not do anything for you? If so, if you don't mind me asking, what does scare you?
Love the video! Need more! But no ghosts, no demons, no paranormal anything, no spirits, nothing like that. Liminal space is good b/c it fucks with you psychologically - makes you think and wonder. Not because there's some "presence" or some jump scare or some fictitious stuff. To me liminal space is being in a place where you know or feel there is life but you don't see it. Being in a game map where you hear cars and trains in the distance but there is no one around. Or being in a house where life was going on and yet the place is completely empty.
I've had this weird dream. Not sure if it's liminal space or something.
I "woke up" from my bed. Everything looked the same. Nothing different, but it was quiet. Too quiet.
I decided to look around and left my bedroom. Everything was in place. Toys, plants, stairs and rooms. I went downstairs, no one was there.
My parents were gone. And so was my sister. I thought maybe they were outside, having a good time. I opened the back yard door and....
"A forest..?" I asked myself. I never had a forest in my backyard. But curious formed me, so I entered. It was familiar, tho unverving.
Birds chirped, trees grew. But, something didn't make sense. And soon, it hit me. I saw something. A tall, black figure with a goat skull as a head. I turned around and walked fastly. I look behind me and I saw it again.
I ran and ran. But the backyard wasn't there anymore. The forest consumed me, I yelled "WAKE ME UP" and I felt like something or someone was ontop of me.
I woke up after that. Now I see it outside sometimes. But, my relatives think its just my mind playing tricks on my eyes. Or is it..?
Either way. Thanks for reading! Have a great day! :)
Considering that you can not scream and you felt someone near maybe it was sleep paralysis? But idk about that you see it outside sometimes, it can be starting mental illness, I suggest you go check it. Stay strong brother
I love liminal spaces because as a child that’s basically what my dreams were about. Empty spaces. But the only image that I dont like from this video is 3:17 because i feel like someone or some creature could pop out at any second and attack me💀
I think for a lot of people, at least for me, these pictures feel a bit like dreams, in the way that they're distinctly familiar but in an eerie, off kilter way. I know that for me at least, I have jumbled dreams often set in places from my childhood and that includes old fashioned houses, arcades, indoor play areas, shopping malls, hotels, etc. Pretty much all the same places these images feature. So it's not surprising I guess that in a thread of liminal spaces, every other image or more can trigger that weird uncomfortable familiarity. They've always been really interesting to me.
I've got to be honest, the emptiness in most of these photos gives me a feeling of safety and nostalgia, I love it.
No one could explained what liminal spaces are as you have done here, good video and very cool effects you did use on it
I dont get liminal spaces.
Like I do get a feeling when I look at a lot of these pictures, but not just the pictures of like spaces that can be described as transistional. I get a feeling looking at weird pools and midcentury modern suburbs and brutalist architecture and the illustrations of Chris Van Allsburg books, but none of those are really defined as transistional. Now there are plenty of examples of transistional spaces that give me this feeling, but that's not what defines them. It's just an off feeling. I imagine these spaces were designed by eldritch horrors who almost understood human design asethetics but couldn't help but subconsciously add a little eldritch influence.
I don't even get the feeling
@@FrozenPanzer I don't even know of if I'm getting the same feeling as other people
I think everyone feels that "nonhuman architecture" to some extent, this video just focused on the nostalgia aspect some more, which not everyone feels due to being from areas with different culture and architecture and such.
@@speedslider3913 Do you think I'd maybe "get it" if liminal spaces focused more on fields and barns and rural stuff like that?
@@thepinkestpigglet7529 Perhaps, but you'd have to see for yourself.
I have a recurring dream that feels like a liminal space. Its always the same house, i dont recognize it but it feels familiar. I dont remember venturing past the boundaries of the yard and i only interact with one peraon, my late wife. I never hear her voice but we still somehow communicate. After waking, i aways feel like I did something wrong and I wasnt supposed to be at that house.
For me they are big empty spaces that you might have be familiar with at some point, like an empty mall at night. The fact that no is there makes the scene, on a place that should be crowded with people. Not this spirit thing.
The backrooms is how I described the layout/atmosphere/vibe of the last office I worked in. Also why I left the last office I worked in and now work from home. Shit was unsettling.
Similar to noclipping video games, liminal spaces are a view into a piece of reality where reality is "unloaded". The simulation isn't currently powering this area. You're "seeing behind the curtain", so to speak. Your brain expects a mall to be bustling and full of people, a common area. Same with school. When you see it "unloaded", it makes you think something bad happened there and that's why it creeps you out.
Going to back ancient times, your ancestors may have encountered a space where the tribe used to live, and it's abandoned without life, it's very likely that space became uninhabitable. There are pretty much 0 good reasons this would be the case, so it instill fear.
At 7:28 the most confusing part of this image is why is there a roof, and the fact that all the fluorescent lights are placed unevenly
I don’t think most people understand Liminal spaces. Everyone says it’s a transitional space and whatnot but that’s all they really say and from all my experience it’s more than that. It should be a space that invokes a storage sense of nostalgia and familiarity. It should seem at least a little retro or outdated, it should be devoid or mostly devoid of the loose objects you might expect to find there (chairs, papers, phones, computers). A liminal Space is always benefited by poor lighting in some capacity, wether it’s a lack of sufficient lighting or is lit by dingy off color lights. And it always helps to have some level of seemingly nonsensical architecture. For me it should seem like a place outside of time. The space between spaces. A void consisting of the structures of our world crudely slapped together as if constructed by a creator unfamiliar with us and our world and lacking the necessary context of the environment.
These liminal spaces (specifically retail and arcade type joints) are like a mental before and after picture in the sense that we know what once was but it’s not there anymore
Yeah thats how it feels looking at them sometimes. A mental before and after. What a great way of putting it!
I liked this video! I've always loved the mystery of liminal spaces, empty spaces where people should be just feel so jarring to be in, and it's cool that it's a human-wide phenomenon. It was also fun seeing the photos of liminal spaces/ThE bAcKrOoMs because I hadn't seen some of those pics before, and like I said it's cool to see others experiences with the spaces hehe
I also really enjoy how you linked the sponsor into this video! A lot of channels kind of shoehorn sponsor ads in, but it flowed so well in this video, so well done for awesome script writing hehe
I think the best example for me is when a store i worked in for 4 years went out of business.... Seeing the store empty and all logos and signs slowly being removed from the store until it was completely empty just had a surreal feeling to it. Really made me think a lot about all the people I met there and worked with every day and all the different events and interesting moments i had there.
it's cause we've all been in a classroom after/before hours and it being virtually empty. that little yellow tint, constant low frequency buzzing that is quiet but definitely there. and feeling out of place. like you know you're there very temporarily, so it isn't creepy.
in my entire life i never been in a class after hours or alone lmao
Narrator: I know what your are thinking...
Me: Whoa, what is this weird place?
Narrator: You've seen this room before.
Me: ?!
Also me: ...no, I definitely didn't.
most of these liminal spaces are based on american nostalgia, the old arcades, swimming pools, attraction parks,etc so if ur not american or have experiences on this types of places, it takes a part of the "experience"
Please make longer videos 🤣😭 my RUclipsrs don’t upload quality videos like this and it takes them days. I be up all night anxious tryna find content like this
you should check out my iceberg video if you haven't already. I'm planning on doing more uploads like this one in the future though. I think the next on my list is the walten files
@@theorist Walter files? Never heard of them should be interesting
The hotel that was shown and described as wired because of the outdoor elements, I can almost 98% guarantee I've been to that hotel. It was a city in Kansas we went to for a youth group conference for the church... I specifically remember wanting to go in the spiral staircase because you don't see a lot of those. Off to the side there were a few claw machines of candy right outside the door to the gym and pool.
I remember the carpet from literally every cinema ever lmao, but I Donna recognise anything else
That carpet is literally everywhere i swear
You cannot escape the carpet
Dang, it’s been a while. I love luminal space.
as someone who is developing schizophrenia I feel like this in every environment liminal or not I feel like it detached from reality like I'm observing myself on top of dread and liminality
Exactly my thoughts, especially when it comes to our dreams. I think you solved a big one for me with this.
One of my favorite RUclipsrs uploading a video on my favorite subject?! Wow, am I dreaming??
Eyyy. Whenever someone calls me their favorite RUclipsr i always feel like im dreaming. Not even lying like its so bizarre to me. Thanks for sharing that :)
3:27 is actually somewhere i've been, It's a playground area that used to be in an airport
This is the “what’s beyond space” feeling.
For me, it typically accompanies spatial anxiety or spatial dementia.
I found myself many times in similar places while doing urbex, I wasn't aware of the name and definition -I feel particularly drawn to the fact that empty/liminal spaces sometimes have a very dreamlike quality. I'm not easily scared but I wouldn't go there alone either lol. The worst experience I had was when a gf of a friend stopped mid sentence while we were about to come down from a stairway, she was clearly panicking and saying "something terrible happened there, I won't go there" she was really shaking and we were on the roof of an abandoned colony in the mountains, open air and nothing creepy or weird was in sight. I can't say I wasn't affected by her reaction at the moment, we kept joking and talking to keep her mood up and we actually didn't come down from the evil stairs.
I like to put myself into liminal state in real life. How? well, go into a public building, and just use the stairs instead of the elevator, you'll see what I mean. Ah but I forgot to mention : do it completely alone.
Thanks for another quality video!
I got the feeling of once being somewhere in a liminal space picture before. The picture was of a video game arcade that looks straight out of the mid 1980s. I wasn't born until the early 2000s. Although, I have been to more modern-looking arcades and have seen them in popular media before. Season 2 of Stranger Things has one of those arcades, and it takes place in the 1980s, so I may get the feeling from that.
An empty gas station at night with the lights still on looks unsettling because I'm sure we've all been there. Gas stations are suppose to have people and cars visiting them. If the lights are on, there should be people but if there isn't it tricks the primal parts of the human brain into thinking something isn't right and that this scenario might be dangerous. But you know it's just a picture. It can't hurt you, although your subconscious is still saying "Hey, we might want to get out of here. Somethings isn't right."
Even if a space doesn't feel liminal to you, it still can feel creepy. There's this one of a seemingly underground room with brick walls. A pool of water is in the center, with 3 pipes with openings resembling mouths pouring water into said pool. That one is just weird, and your brain tries and fails to make sense of it, so your subconscious receives it as a threat even though it's just a picture.
here's the thing
when you say "you had seen this room before"
I am always going to say no. Telling me to do something or to belief something or anything similar is always going to make me not want to do it. I don't know what this is called, but it has a name to it
So no, I don't recognize a single one of these images (well, probably also because I am not american)
Edit: I shared this hoping that this would be like a trick that makes someone immune to a liminal space, but it isn't because the video is about more than that u_u
You sound like me when anyone asks me to do anything 😂
“Well you seem to want me to do it. That makes me not want to do it” me af
I feel ya tho. Its a hit or miss honestly. Thanks for sharing tho
@@theorist Washing the dishes
someone tells you "Can you wash the dishes?"
Immediately stop washing the dishes and walk away
divorce
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My favorite luminal space is that DUMP TRUCK I know you got back there, please show us already YourEverydayTheorist!!!😡😤
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i Feel Like the _only_ One who likes
Liminal Spaces and doesnt feel
Creeped out by them, They are Cool
this is a liminal space moment right now
One of these pictures was in my nightmares and it was absolutely terrorfying
It’s literally 2AM and I’m aware that these specific videos trigger my paranoia…….but I can’t help it
Go check out the gaming channels i put! They are sure to bring ur mood up :)
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apparently, i think like liminal spaces and i also think i would love to explore them
I find it strange that people are apparently weirded out by liminal spaces. I like them. When i encounter them, i tend to linger and soak up the ambiance.
SMT Nocturne has heavy liminal space vibes all throughout the game and the soundtrack
Liminal space is encouraged in architecture.
09:01 You did those transitions?
Because I could watch hours of that shit.
If you liked that then you should watch a channel on youtube called baphomet kun.
Tons of those transitions. I didnt make that one tho. It was composed by an AI that was taught only liminal spaces
@@theorist i took a look on baphomet Kun and is very interesting but is the ai with liminal spaces that blow my mind. If I can't find more of this stuff i will try to do it my self xD
The train station in the matrix reloaded, also reminds me of the definition of a liminal space, as it seeminly goes on forever, at each end of the tunnel, and there is technically no entrance, nor exit except for the tunnel itself, which seems impossible to travel through.
How about the subway station in The Matrix?
3:39 I’ve been there …??? But I’m a crazy scary dream I’ve had it’s really creepy to see this rn an only watching this video for the 1st time ever ??… 🤯 weird. I wonder if I seen this before without knowing I’ve seen it or something idk but I can vividly remember that entire dream an it’s been 6 months since I’ve had it. I just remember every detail from that dream cause it was odd. Followed by another dream I had that I can remember very well but I havnt seen anything like that so it doesn’t worry me as much as this one. Ughh weird 😣
seen spirited away 5 times, and knew about liminal spaces before, but I never compared it to that.
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listen.. i love spooky online horror but this phenomena is just… not it. those photos look vaguely familiar because they’re similar to things we’d seen as kids. i HATE when people say shit like that.
I think liminal spaces are a look into the subconscious part of your mind, all the objects in these photos are things that everyone within a reasonably broad age has seen before but their not important enough to consciously keep in the four front of your mind, that’s why you get that dream like feeling
That place reminds me of an abandoned Chuck E. Cheese or Huckleberry Junction something because those carpets are identical to the ones Huckleberry Junction
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Does _anything_ qualify as a liminal space these days? People apply the term "liminal space" to damn near anything. I realize the feeling of liminality is largely subjective, but I do think there is a relatively clear distinction between liminal spaces and normal spaces. Like any popular topic, people take it too far and turn it into a cliché.
There is an excellent game called super liminal that deals with the concept. It’s really interesting
The first time I realized i was traveling through a liminal space was after my sleep test. It was 5 am and I went from my room to a hallway and to my car. The hallway was long and so empty
I've never gotten the deja vu or nostalgia people describe when seeing liminal spaces. I think some of them are kind of creepy particularly bc it feels like youre all alone or like youre not supposed to be there
this is pretty prominent on source engine related game imo, especially when there's no entity on the map.
There are so many videos about liminal spaces out there, this one is really not the best for the definition of it, though i suppose its their take on it so...
transitional spaces don't typically include gas stations and the like, to most peoples take on liminal spaces
There are a lot of liminal spaces in the documentaries of Adam Curtis
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Great video dude, I love things like this where it makes you think. Intriguing. Especially when I'm learning something new where it makes me think when I'm traveling and seeing new places. Like you said you always think about it and I always wonder: "what was this place before?" After looking at the surroundings.
Thanks for sharing! I love learning about new ideas like this too. Never fails to intrigue me
It’s kind of like the back rooms
I predicted it
Its not much of a prediction,if you talk about liminal spaces you'll almost always talk about the back rooms
@@culturedpotato9497 actually Cody it was a prediction as I had not watched all of the video yet and put this comment
@@ShunnyV2 i meant that the entire theme of liminal spaces is tied to the back rooms, so you didn't need to watch the video to know that the back rooms would have been discussed too
@@culturedpotato9497 fair point but that still doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a prediction
this man just explained the unexplainable 😶😶
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I have no idea how examples like these can affect people.
No, seriously, i just dont feel what you guys mean.
It's just an empty hotel lobby. It's just a closed-up mall. It's an area. to be used. not being used right now, but it can be. SO?
That photo looks like the indoor mini golf center from bullwinkle family fun center
If you want a perfect representation of a liminal space in a video game, check out the forest temple from ocarina of time.
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I search creepy image and I never like it I will never sleep because I will wake up into a banded place and I’m screwed
I never feel any familiarity
Super luminal my guy
The back rooms just look like an abandoned toys r us/Walmart/abandoned Disney park to me 🤷♀️
Can you do a vide o about dreams or nightmares?
Nice I swear I’ve heard you say this before but at the same time I’m not exactly sure
If you have seem the baphoment kun video then you have heard me say it. I did it on purpose bc if youve seen that video and dont remember it.
Itll have this weird deja vu effect on u. I dont really care about ruining that effect by explaining rn tho. Its only meant to hit you while u watch the video
@@theorist LMAO bro that’s literally what happened the deja vu was hitting like crazy 🤣
I love this topic
Its so interesting!
“I don’t buy into the idea of the back rooms” no shit it’s a creepy pasta ffs
I still like to think they exist
The first Picture. I actually been in that place or somewhere that looks like it was a glow in the dark golf course
wow what a coincidence!
Various locations in the video game Control.
So what about the dream that can predict future? The dream that come true
The Matrix trilogy had some liminal spaces. The back doors (not backrooms) was one.
Maybe we recognize them because we were in them in a past life
3:17
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Spirited away is the only good anime of all time.Liminal spaces just seem creepy
liminal spaces CREEP ME TF OUT
the first pic? yeah thats familiar. That's the mini golf course at incredible pizza aint it
What if there is sort of like a Jungian analysis for this? Like these certain familiar settings which we call 'liminal spaces' are a kind of environmental archetype? I don't know...
The spaces are uncanny
Plot twist all the places are closed lmao