I'm Scared of Liminal Spaces...
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we dive into a world of liminal spaces, a place between realities that leaves those unnerved and questioning of the environments around them. Why are they unnerving? Let's find out! Thanks for watching!
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There's this neighborhood about 40 minutes out from where I live; every house looks the same and there's this massive hill kinda like the windows XP background that encompasses most of the foreground. (pretty sure it's a landfill) and every so often I drive down there late at night and man, that feeling is exactly how you described it!
any way you could say what its called?
Go get some video of it..
That's the only liminal space that actually creeps me out. I find most liminal spaces at least mildly fascinating, but those weird suburban neighborhoods with the cookie cutter houses, and either a clear sky with no sun, or very defined cumulus clouds, with no people is the kind that freaks me out a little.
just another Tuesday in suburbia
Sprawling on the fringes of the city in geometric order,an insulated border,in between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown.Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone.
I remember the 1st time I learned about Liminal spaces was Solar Sand's youtube video introducing me to the concept. I'm glad more people are discovering the concept and going down the rabbit hole.
I could watch that video till the day I die
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Now we just need Muta to dive down Everywhere at the end of time.
Bro check this game: superliminal. Peaceful and also gives you anxiety too.
China’s “ghost cities” are really interesting Liminal spaces - massive metropolises lined with glamorous buildings yet there’s almost no one living there. It’s really something else.
Uhh, Ghostwire: Tokyo?
@@BD_3000 Tokyo is in Japan, so no.
@@TyEats2200 yeah but still asian
The government probably rounded everyone up and turned them into dog food and fertilizer
i saw a video about them a year or so ago, the ytubers actually commented some of them were already starting to collapse, because they were not built very well.
I think the movie "The Langoliers (1995)" gave me a similar feeling back in the day.
It's based on a Stephen King novel and it's about a bunch of airplane passengers getting stranded at an airport. The passengers are the only living things at the whole airport (and the world basically). It was like everyone else just vanished in the middle of doing their business. Apparently "time" and everything else left on without them so to speak. It was a really interesting movie.
Oh you mean that movie with the floating mouth monster thingies?
A three hour movie, cheesy acting, but great story.
I've seen parts of that movie. Never understood it.
My thoughts exactly. That movie explored a concept similar to the backrooms and liminal space. A dimension outside of normal space time.
That would've been a great execution had the reveal not been evil fanged chicken nuggets/meatballs eating everything
My whole life I've been affected by the eerieness and discomfort of abandoned spaces- dark shop windows at night, empty school hallways, the office after closing- but didn't have language for the feeling until stuff about liminal spaces started showing up. It's fascinating and I'm glad it's something I can experience.
same
reminds me of downtown Massachusetts
The strongest sense of a liminal space I've ever felt was when I took shelter in a parking garage during a particularly bad storm during a bike ride. I decided to go up to the 5th of 6 floors and just hang out, but the garage lost power. The only light I had was from downtown miles away and lightning in the clouds, as the rain picked up into an absolute downpour.
I hope you had some protection because that sounds creepy af.
The Night Mistress provides. Shadow hide you.
That sounds scary yet amazing.
That sounds cozy af to me.
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During the hype of the pandemic i can imagine a lot of cities looked that dead. I know some streets around Boston were a ghost town.
I used to work at a call center for a certain evil television company (which btw you should never work at. Ever.) And after the pandemic hit the once packed parking lot turned into a location straight out of Chernobyl. Ghost town. Empty. Quite spooky.
@@offlne5637 which company?
That's the weirdest thing to call it as if people loved it -- no one hyped it we loathed it
Vegas here the strip was dead like thanos snapped his fingers on everyone in the strip it was eerily silent the strip is never silent.
I live in a small town. And the streets were empty. I would walk around town doing my daily chores and I wouldn't see anyone else but some workers and a few random cars. It was eerie
I've never really been super freaked out by liminal spaces. They just give me a weird sense of fake nostalgia. Like when I look at those empty malls, I just imagine myself and a group of friends going on a trip
Though, imagining being there w/o anyone else is certainly an uneasy feeling
exactly the same for me
Same
I don’t even feel nostalgia. it’s just a picture.
as someone whos been in liminal spaces before, its a feeling of like im lost and im always searching. the pool with the blue tiles and the little bit of water and endless corridors is recurring for me and i hate it so much. i feel like theres something following me the entire time breathing down my neck but its like i can never turn around
I love seeing the late 90's retail places
The inevitable death of malls really makes me sad :(
I hate online shopping unless it's like something on ebay or wanting something used/cheaper. Like, how am I going to know if something looks good on me or not if I don't physically have it and try it on? Looking at a screen will never compare to looking at the actual physical objects and maybe something else catching your eye
malls haven’t died yet, in fact they are doing really good
@@griefer5846 Ours does well, I think people get tired of never leaving the house. There is a fun to going to a physical place and just wandering through shops
Same for movie theaters, I loving the whole experience yes even the waiting in line and all that...the GETTING OUT is the fun part
I've been having Liminal Space dreams my whole life
A big nightmare of mine is aimlessly running around looking for a destination I can't find
Like running around an empty school for 2 hours never being able to find the class room I need to be in
Or walking away from a group of friends to... Go to the bathroom or something and all of a sudden, everyone is forever gone and I'm alone
Bro is having visions
same here. I have these dreams all the time. Even though I have "super powers" in my dreams, once someone is lost in my dreams, once *I am lost*, there is no way back.
i have the same dreams too and i odly find them so satisfying as they all have correlative themes and sometimes my dreams continue from where I was before, and running to class before the bell was a challenge as I couldn't run right at all.
Same I used to have this one dream over and over again when I was like 7, of me in a foggy place. Super empty. There was this spaceship for some reason and I would leave it unsupervised. And then I would see it take off with people inside and then it made me think that the whole world was empty with no one except for me. That I could wander around for hours and not meet a single person. and I would get a huge feeling of guilt, regret and loneliness . Looking back it was pretty dumb, but it scared me a lot of a kid and I still can’t get over the massive feeling of guilt I had.
liminal spaces and anxiety are a great trauma combo for when i want to feel total derealization.
i especially enjoy the pool areas the most
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Same. Jared Pike’s art in particular gets me the most. So many pools, so little time
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Liminal Spaces are awesome, there's a stillness in the air when you're alone in a big area. I got to go to a mall a few days before it closed and walked around. Everything was closed besides the food court. It was out of this world man
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The feeling you’re describing is known as “the sublime”. Where you deeply fear something but at the same time are intrigued and interested by it.
Oh god, halfway through this video I remembered SCP-184 "The Architect" and realised why it was the only SCP to seriously scare me. I'm pretty sure it was my first real exposure to liminal spaces.
What about that infinite staircase one? SCP-087
NGL I think adding in a creature hunting you down in these types of scenarios actually takes the horror away and reminds me way too much of slender. Horror doesn't have to be about a scary creature, it can be a never ending feeling of dread and inescapability.
Ngl the backrooms would be 2x more scary if there was no monsters. Just complete loneliness and dread with only the thought of being watched rather than actually knowing.
I actually agree lol
The skin crawler, smiler, shit kinda sucks cause like…it just feels like SCP 2.
i am going to disagree respectfully.
i personally think if there was no monsters, it would bring ease as you know the only way you are going to die is probably not going to be super painful.
i still think the backrooms would be hella scary without monsters though
@@ODST_Jar id rather a monster kill me than wander lost forever going crazy amd losing my sanity until i ultimately imagine a monster chasing me and fall into a state of psychotic fear
@@ODST_Jar I used to think that the backrooms was just lost data that was separated from reality like in a videogame when the floor and wall models are found under the map which the developer copies and pasted the exact same floor and wall model. That's how I like to view the backrooms.
“The Library of Babel” is one of my favorite short stories. It was written in 1941 by mathematician Jorge Luis Borges. I think that people like Muta would really like it because it is very easy to read without effort. The story takes place in a universe in the form of a library of hexagonal rooms with an entrance way, 4 walls, and 32 books per shelf. The inhabitants believe that this library contains every possible ordering of 25 basic characters in the English language (22 letters, the period, the comma, and space). Even though most of the books contain just gibberish, it is said that if their theory is true, the Library must contain the following,
- every song ever written or will be written or could be written
- every book ever written or will be written or could be written
- everything that has been said or will be said or could be said
- biographies of every person that has ever lived or will live or could live
- all accurate and inaccurate predictions of the future
- all of recorded history
- all of recorded possible alternate histories
- everything in this comment section
- this shitpost
- every solved and unsolved mystery
- Translations of everything above in all languages or possible languages
The resulting library would have an estimated 10 to the 104677 power books!
Creating (in my personal opinion) the most horrifying liminal space ever to be conceived by a person.
I remember Vsauce mentioning a site based on this concept. You can even search for specific strings.
I have to check this out
Nice, sounds like a book for me!
Borges is for pseuds
Although tbh it would probably also be the most useful liminal space, if you could get through the gibberish
It perfectly represents despair. We aren’t fearing a computer world, we aren’t fearing being stuck. We fear never truly living. That’s why those buildings/spaces cause so much anxiety. It’s the end
i think it's more easily traceable to the idea of death itself:
in the case of ghosttowns, these empty spaces that were once lived in have died out, seemingly,
and that suddenly makes death be right up in front of your face, and a lot of people
can't take that in some manner, that's the uneasy part of it.
The other thing i believe that is happening is the same what you see in horror movies when forests fall silent, it's unnatural,
even in the dark of night there should still be rustling sounds.
that is where towns and cities differ from forests though (well most cities), since human settlements of most sizes fall silent as everyone living in it goes to bed,
and it immediately triggers a survival feeling, the idea there might be something lurking around that caused everyone to shut up and hide, when in reality, everyone is just asleep.
So I guess I like death?
To me, it's basically the lack of social interactions. We, as humans, need to socialize to keep our sanity in check. When you see no one in these liminal spaces, you start becoming paranoid and anxious. That's how I feel when I see liminal spaces
I think why liminal spaces can be discomforting, sad, or scary is because a lot of these places are similar to places we’ve seen before. Our minds hold memories of places like these and seeing how desolate and void of life makes us feel a sense of dread and alienation. We’re trying to put a memory where it doesn’t belong; even if the space you’re in is a carbon copy of somewhere you’ve been/seen before.
This reminds of a dream, where I was stuck on a certain facility for hours. After some time I manage to break a wall and there was a space with a ladder that lead up to an exit door at the top. I opened the door and found everything was on top of a train at full speed in the middle of nothing.
Hearing Muta mention creepypastas again really fires the neurons. Imagine if he goes full circle and returns to showing off crappy exe games!
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Okay but only the OG SomeOrdinaryGamers remember Haunted Gaming. And that awesome outro music that still plays in my head when Muta's videos end.
im kinda new to muta, he did creepy pastas? and do you recommend an old video i can watch from him
I remember flying in December 2020 on a thursday afternoon. No one in the airport, just security and basic airport staff, almost as if they were NPCs and I was the only player in the game. It was blissfully creepy.
Same thing when I landed in Montana. It was 1 in the morning and the airport looked like it was from 1950 and that made it even more unsettling, it was so empty.
Liminal spaces give me comfort. That shit just takes me back to when I lived in smaller homes
It gives me this nostalgic early 2000s feeling
I don't feel anything with liminal spaces or like backrooms, oh well
Me too
As someone who used to deal with immense crowds in the commutes and offices of New York City, most liminal spaces really just leave positive vibes in me.
The craziest liminal space experience I had came a few years ago. We were deep sea fishing off of the island of Aruba. The guide took us out to by the massive oil rigs for fracking. The rigs were waiting for approval to begin so there was no activity.
Sitting on the trolling boat going around these massive steel structures that were the the length of multiple city blocks with no human activity to be spotted was mesmerizing. I forgot we were fishing for a good 20 minutes just staring up and looking at everything.
I just realized that the ocean is a big fucking liminal space
I like liminal spaces, It's like a visual depiction of the feeling I get when I'm still at work but only minutes away from the holidays beginning. My favorite is a motorway underpass I frequent with the tunnel walls having large stone tiles with square geometric texturing, like magnified salt crystals, to encouraged hanging plants to take root and cling to them. Driving through reminds me of a lost Aztec/Mayan ruin.
Being in an empty, silent room in a large house or building during a party or event is trippy too. It's like your body thinks your alone but you're well aware you're not.
Ive worked at big schools/university and library’s and one of my favorites things was to experience them at night during closing shift such an eerie feeling seeing the contrast from the lively daytime
but the scariest one was a civil nuclear bunker(Switzerland has huge bunkers everywhere)
under the school i worked in they had one of these it was huuge it starts with concrete al grey and large but the somehow transitions to a some sort of hospital the walls were painted yellowish there were no furniture some rooms were labeled like surgery etc…im glad my coworker which told me about it came with me otherwise ive would have gotten lost
I always love when Muta goes back to his roots exploring and sharing his interest in the creepypastas/eerie internet.
I remember going back home from a friend at night, it was like 4am and the streets were totally empty, which was a bit unusual. I live in a relatively busy city so that was basically the only time in my life when I was alone on the street for like 15 minutes as I was on my way home. At one point I decided to get off the sidewalk and walk on the road instead, right in the middle of it. It filled me with that sense of: "I'm alone, but also free to do anything." It was that odd mixture of sadness and liberation.
I feel like Mutahar would enjoy playing "Superliminal", it's not quite liminal space since there are puzzles for you to solve and thus, a definite end.
However, the feeling it gives sometimes while you play through it is pretty similar
Yess! I love superliminal!
I liked walking around my university at night. Just the utter calm of no one, or just few people, around when during the day there are so many. Looking back, it really fit this liminal feel.
That's a great example
When I was in undergrad, I fell in love with liminal spaces. It's so peaceful, and I'm so relaxed in those areas I've found myself seeking out liminal spaces wherever I go.
Exactly. Wondering the university halls at the end of the day. Empty food court, empty library, empty classrooms, and yours is the only car in the parking lot as the doors lock automatically behind you when you leave. The university in my city was built in the early 80's so it was the definition of this back in the day.
As someone from detroit, at 1 am, everyone is outside, especially in the summer. Don't let casual tourist tell you any different.
Yeah the empty hours are 3-5
I haven't even started this video, but I learned that this was an actual sought out aesthetic earlier today, and it blew my brain because I have YEARS worth of photography practice of liminal spaces just rotting away on my drives. I used them to practice composition with in, because if you can master making an empty space look interesting when it shouldn't then you win photography basically.
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Mutahar is getting to the point of where you've watched so much horror you suddenly start feeling like everything is just as scary as it was the first time you saw something horror-related (trust me, I've been there)
I'm in South Florida, and everytime I'm travelling back from Key West to Miami, there's always an area where they have lamp posts with red lights. On top of it, it's always eerily empty. Just a road with a small shed and red halogenic lights.
I remember this dream I had once where i was in my neighborhood and i crossed a bridge I'd never seen before and wound up in a bizzaro reality made of everywhere I've ever been blended into one town. Population: people with the faces of everyone I've ever loved or hated in such a fine mix it was disturbing.
Good to see that game store is still open in that mall, I used to love going there because they had retro games with a bunch of arcades cabin. Also fucking crazy how that mall is up because I thought the guy who owned it went bankrupt or couldn’t keep up with bills
Never been to that mall specifically, but I got a similar story. Wasn't a game shop though, it was a book store. Nothing else was open. Shutters over every vending station, and fake plants surrounding massive pillars. The chairs/benches along the corridors were always empty, and the entire building (outside of the bookstore) was a weird dingy white with green flooring. Last I remember the bookstore was still open, but that could be different now.
There is another location for that arcade in Cincinnati, I believe. It is really weird for me walking through that empty mall, because I remember when it was newly remodeled and packed with people.
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What I love is when you think liminally, you can find liminal spaces. There's a side hallway where I work where the bathrooms, utility/fixture closet and fire exit are. A sink on the wall for draining defective products. Concrete floor with yellow hazard tape by the exit doors and helium tanks. No drop ceiling, just exposed beams, pipes and electrical conduits and the breaker box. Simple, unfinished, unpainted drywall walls. I took a picture of it one day because it had that liminal vibe, but there's something more special about being there alone in the store at 5:00AM. The feeling that nobody's meant to linger there, just pass through on the way to the bathroom, fixture closet or stockroom. You can have a cluttered liminal space, but the litmus test for them ultimately is _are you meant to linger here?_
I think a lot of people will confuse liminal space with anemoia by posting images of places stuck in time like skating rinks, arcades, abandoned schools. There's enough similarities it's not worth splitting straws over, though. They both give you that really strange, uncomfortably comfortable (or comfortably uncomfortable? Unsettled?) feeling. I became obsessed with anemoia and liminal space at the start of the pandemic. I kinda want to pick up a secondhand enthusiast DSLR on ebay and take up a photographic hobby for these things.
That weird feeling of liminality is why i adore taking walks at night.
Empty streets only lit by street lights, no cars anywhere, nobody nowhere.
Just you, the empty street and your thoughts.
My first experience with a liminal space was langoliers. I watched that whole thing in one sitting as a kid and it haunted me. I couldn't imagine a worse fate.
I was thinking of the same thing. The ending sucked but up to that point it was such a creepy movie.
@@trcsunny2187 as an adult I totally agree. As a kid I was just relieved that escaped at all 😅
I get how these can come across as scary but for me these feel nostalgic/wonderous as they feel like the dreams of exploring megastructures that my mind congers up
Conjures
Same here. I want to live in such a space. I never know that it has a name.
8:26 That is so true, one time when I was younger I would stay up late alot and eventually i noticed when traffic would die off for the night. So one night I climbed out the front window, went into the street, and laid down in the middle of the road on the double yellow lines. I had this feeling, I somehow knew that i could do it and not get caught. I lived in the city and it was nothing but street lamps both ways on the road. I just laid there and stared at the sky for a good 5 minutes. That's as close to a liminal space experience that I can reacll. It was great
Work at a theme park, sometimes won’t leave till 2:30 am, that feeling when walking down one of the busiest streets and seeing nothing but the light up buildings and listening to the park music was something memorable
28 Days Later is one of my all-time favorite movies
Those shots of an empty London at the beginning of the film are unforgettable
I'm all in for it man! Yeah that feeling when you know someone or something with a pulse should be around but its just you and the empty streets..
almost like the program forgot to populate the area
I fell down this rabbit hole over a year ago and never dug my way out, its all so interesting, im glad more people ars finding stuff like the back rooms etc now, i always thought it deserved more attention
My first experience with liminal spaces is logging in early in the morning on counter strike 1.6 servers and hanging out in an empty map. Freaky shit
Gmod has lots of liminal maps, they creep me tf out
I was raised in a rural town in Oklahoma and I get this feeling when I go into those creepy cookie cutter suburbs where every house looks the same. The lawns are all perfect and nobody is ever outside.
Yes!
Ooo, I get an eerie feeling when I'm in neighborhoods like that. No noises, not a person in site. And everything looks the same. It's so weird.
Silent Hill 3 still has my favourite use of liminal spaces in video games. The shopping mall, the subway, the apartment complex, walking the dark streets back to your apartment. Every location (especially for the first half of the game) just feels so eerie and dream-like. It all feels very familiar, yet disconcerting all the same.
4:35 Mutahar just completely forgets that early on when covid-19 broke out, pictures like that were made very possible.
I have a fascination for liminal spaces. they are off putting in reality.
but in media and virtual realities jt is just so peaceful.
I remember during prime lockdown in London I took cycling trips with two other friends, I remember seeing areas that were always packed to the brim being completely empty in broad daylight and something about it was so off putting. Even worse was when it got dark and the lighting of the streets made a row of amber lights, being able to hear absolutely nothing you’d expect to hear in a normal city just added to it.
A similar feeling is like being in school at night time. I used to at school late cause of a club i was in and would sometimes wonder around and it was a kind of eerie feeling seeing the hallways and classrooms so empty and quiet.
For me liminal spaces describe a place in which you feel a mix of nostalgia, fear, sadness, and awe.
A place where you remines on all your years of life.
A place with an absent of life. Either with repeating objects, or one object standing in a barren space (like a house in the middle of nowhere).
It could be a late night shower, going out your room in the middle of the night, walking a fogy, empty neighborhood either in the morning or night, and more.
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It's also pretty related to vaporwave, which employs liminal space imagery quite often
Nigga what? No it doesn’t. Your thinking of the nostalgic feeling that both things give off lol
I’d recommend checking out the work of Francesca Woodman, she’s a photographer who mainly did surrealist work but her photos share the feeling of liminal spaces
Super Mario 64 and its old nostalgic graphics are essentially a liminal space simulator. The hub-world and its paintings that lead into the different levels have such a liminal vibe to them. The every copy of Mario 64 is personalized creepypasta really ties into that. Everyone who played Mario 64 as a kid had at least one weird dream about Mario 64 and today many of these people swear that they really explored that secret room or that secret level no one seems to remember.
I once visited a Hotel in China that had like 15 floors so it was a big place. There was nobody visiting except for our travel group. Some hallways would be very dark. It wasnt that eerie but it was kind of interesting how such a big place could be so vacant.
Just watched this video, and after seeing the idea of Liminal spaces it made me recall of an event that happened about 3~ months ago.
So here i was at a friends house late evening we were watching youtube videos and laughing about random stuff and it was getting kinda of late and i wanted to get home because i was working the following day and wanted to get some sleep, his home is around 20 minutes before you get on the highway, and i had no car so i went on foot, he told me good night and be safe and i left his home, mind you it was late and the night was settling in, it was the worse feeling i have ever had, there was i just walking towards the highway in a path which was poorly made and with little lamps to guide me towards the highway, every house around me had no lights, every car and dogs that the neighbours had were plain quiet, no sounds of barking no sounds of family cheering or watching tv, just complete silence.. there were no sound of the wind or anything like that, the only sound that i could hear was my own walking.. the tip-tap of the soil.. it felt very uncomfortable and eerie, i would watch behind my back around every 15 seconds because it felt strange and surreal that there was no human being awake at that hour, anyway 20 minutes later i arrive to the highway.. from there i have to make around 30 more minutes on foot before i get to my house, it was getting around 12 in the morning when i arrived at the highway.. i finally saw some laps.. about 2~3 every couple of hundred meters ahead, but the most frightened thing that i noticed was that once again i was alone.. no cars from both ends, no lights in front or behind me besides the lights of the lamps just myself on an empty highway on a sunday night, later on the path i'd say mid way through i have to cross near a graveyard that is in the left side on the highway, which itself wasn't so bad in the morning but in the night it just hit different, seeing the emptiness of the road, the graveyard and anything in a 500 meters radius made me feel very frightened that night, finally after about an hour of madness and panic that maybe somebody is behind me or after me i start to get near my house where it became better, there were still no cars or people or shops,super markets opened but at least i had a lot more lights to work with, after that i get to my house and open the door, and i'm very glad and happy that i escaped that weird feeling of being alone and helpless when i hear my parents tv in the other room and my cats that came to greet me.
Weirdest feeling i ever had and i hope i dont get to experience it ever again..
Imagine our ancestors walking around in the woods, and suddenly all birds and land animals weren't around, our ancestor would know something is wrong, and there is probably a predator around. It stayed in evolution with us, and this is the uneasiness we feel
I absolutely love/hate liminal spaces, so these videos are right up my alley. Please do more!
I work third shift at a dog kennel. We have a separate building for daytime activities (playgroups, training, and whatnot) that we have to check to be sure it's locked. The only problem is that the lightswitches are far from the door we use and are instead next to the door exposed to the outside (we do not lock the door we go through, as it is fenced in and there is no entrance to it other than going through the main building) and walking in a dark kennel with no life whatsoever is genuinely terrifying. Someone could grab you from behind and nobody would be able to hear you scream.
I love liminal space stuff, but I also have a chronic nightmare disorder where a majority of my dreams are like weird liminal spaces. Same with sleep paralysis and false awakenings and all that. Many of my dreams have an end of the world feeling, and I've turned a few of them into short stories. I also have c-PTSD, and there's something eerie but comforting about liminal spaces to me, likely due to trauma. The dreary and lonely nature of a lot of the images feel weirdly like home, and the nostalgia factor a lot of people get is a huge thing with me and those images. I take liminal space pictures sometimes myself since I live in a really old house in a small town in the middle of nowhere. Gives midwestern Gothic a whole new meaning when you live in it.
I've never been in an area that felt like a liminal space, but I have had the sort of experience of feeling like there was a massive error in reality that happened. It's stayed with me all my life, never been able to explain it. I was a kid, my mom was in my room talking to me, and it was nighttime, no light coming through the curtain. Without any sort of "break" in the conversation between her and I, I remember blinking and suddenly it was morning, bright light coming through the curtain, could see blue sky through the bit of window not covered by the curtain rod. I didn't mention it to her because it didn't feel real. I just shook it off and went about the day normally, but yeah... this experience is something I'll never forget.
disclaimer, i dont' believe in aliens (at least ones that visit here and abduct people) but when i was a kid i distinctly remember waking up one night to extremely bright lights outside my bedroom window (on the second floor) and when i looked i could see vague sillouhettes in the light. And then i woke up again in the morning. I would absolutely swear on my life that I was awake, but it was almost certainly a really creepy dream.
As someone whos had a similar situation with my sister, I honestly believe it was like an alien abduction or something LMAO, shit was so spooky and unnerving, felt like we moved thru time and ended up in about the same place
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Mutahar: finding new phobias everyday.
I dont know why, but liminal spaces just fascinate me, its as if humankind as a whole never existed in them, the feeling that nothing will happen, that no one will come into scene. Its just you, and the empty environment around you, i just love it.
The uni I used to go to was split into 2 parts: old and new (extension, same building). The old part still has offices, labs but parts of it are very rarely used, so the electricity is still on. Going to those parts feels exactly like these liminal spaces. It's even more exaggerated, because when you walk from the new part to the old part, you go from fairly busy to nearly abandoned in a matter of minutes. It was really cool exploring it, because the old part is pretty big.
To the liminality experience, I have. I distinctly remember this one time when I was kid where me and a family of mine were driving through a still being developed area of my country that's situated in the bay. At one point there seems to have been some sort of large shopping complex there but it has been abandoned. This distinct experience/memory was at sunset with no other cars around and we were just passing through. The deteriorating large building complex there could be seen with panels and things sagging and falling off from age, with enclosed walkways above parts of the roads being held up by slightly rusted supports. The angle I viewed this from the car window was facing the ocean, so it really felt like I was stuck on some sort of island with a deteriorating mega structure with nothing but oceans around at sunset.
The idea of an empty corridor scares me more than the idea of life after death.
You could say the empty corridors can be like an archetypal symbolism for our feelings towards life after death and all that shit if my Carl Jung side is right
I'm scared and fascinated by Liminal Spaces and The Backrooms the Internet has made insane lore from it not to mention we are getting awesome Indie Films on CZcams and Indie Games using the awesome and scary that is Liminal Spaces!
The back rooms is a million times better when it was just an obscure post. The vibe is dumb when people started talking about “lEvel 700 oF dA baKrooms is a scEry mOnsTEr!!”
The thing is now people are kinda more interested in the 'entities' more than the Spaces themselves
When I have a nightmare, it's never someone chasing me, or me being scared of something trying to kill me,... it's always stuff like this. The repetion, the anxiety of being stuck doing the same thing over and over. Waking up constantly and returning to that same dream.
video game multiplayer maps are one of the best versions of liminal spaces. Especially when you used to play them with full lobbies. It’s the mix of nostalgia, melancholy, and the uneasiness of how these maps are supposed to be full and used but now are empty. Halo maps, TF2 maps, and more in my opinion give me the creeps when their empty
4:28 Mutahar I think that's Ortigas CBD in the Philippines. I did a little search.
I just realized that and the fact that i havent been to mandaluyong since covid started
A couple times inside of dreams I’ve had in the past I’ve experienced being in the middle of a giant space filled with water, you can see the walls, ceiling, and the floor, but the space was so big it would be impossible to swim to one side from even the center. Seeing this space gave me a lot of anxiety, but relaxation at the same time. Idk if that counts as a liminal space but I definitely can understand what you’re talking about when it comes to the feeling you get from them.
My favorite liminal spaces are the edited ones that are just believable enough but still weird enough to sit in uncanny valley territory. Like a strange dream
"It's both an anxiety and a fear , and something that gives me a lot of meditative relief".
Best explanation
I once worked in a huge paper archive complex. These buildings housed veterans records going back to World War One. To access these warehouse-sized rooms required long walks and once inside the immensity of the space was overwhelming. A chemical aroma was in the air from preservative compounds emitted from air-conditioning ducts. This was to preserve the very old paper and cardboard of the archived material. To access the storage units we had to turn compactus wheels and after a few weeks of this I became almost musclebound. The emptiness of these sterile spaces became more haunting over time rather than less.
I absolutely love liminal space and concepts like backrooms. Yes, it´s scary as fuck, but I love it and the idea of being alone in a complex can be somehow cozy (I am probably the only person on the planet who found first Amnesia to be somewhat cozy at times...). But I have this weird version of agoraphobia where I don´t mind outside, but I am shitting myself in huge open but enclosed space (like a massive hall with very high celling). And the idea that I am inside of such a huge building with no walls and that building has no means to get out.. Well. Well well. That´s my proper nightmare fuel.
You should read the book incarceron
@@photoast_ I´ll check it out, thanks for the tip
Woah, you're the only person I've encountered who also finds massive halls with very high cellings scary. I also find long stretches of land, especially desert dunes, extremely unnerving.
I have a recurring nightmare where I'm in a storage room with an infinitely high ceiling and an infinite amount of infinitely tall storage shelves. I'm on the middle of one of those shelves, and I can't see neither t he floor nor the ceiling.
I've tried looking into it, but the closest I've got is megalophobia. While there are some megalophobia pictures that are kinda like this, I'd like to know if there is a fear for the exact thing I described.
@@bratprica6383 Mate, I almost forgot that I wanted to respond :) Yeah, I never met anyone with this weird phobia and when many years ago I discussed it with a psychiatrist, he didn´t really give me any specific name or answer, seemed he himself was intrigued by what I was describing.
I personally don ´t find dunes as frightening, just generally not pleasant. For some reason when there is no celling and distant walls, it´s.. bearable. I am also huge space nerd and my life long dream is to visit space, for some weird reason vacuum and seemingly infinite space does not scare me at all. But put me in a big hall and my knees will just go "Fuck this buhbye!".
@@Scarecr0wn No problem mate, I was also kinda late because for some reason my comment notifications on youtube are very inconsistent.
Yeah we probably have the same phobia, and yeah dunes are the only odd one out, all other stuff regarding open spaces doesn't scare me (the ocean, space, and stuff like that). Wish there was more information on this phobia!
I'm starting to get into liminal spaces cuz of you. It's fascinating how it feels.
London looked like this first days of COVID -19 .... IT REALLY felt like everyone is gone and you are left alone 😬
Quite a few years ago i used to spend the nights out with my friends regularly and when everyone went home to sleep i would just walk around town alone in the night (3-4 am). My town is always deserted at night, no cars, no people, few noises and i really enjoyed it, it made me feel so relaxed and get me in a good mood. Looking back it it now i guess you could call that some kind of liminality but for me it was always comforting instead of unsettling.
The dark web series needs a revival.
Very true
@YeaMan can't even spell lol. If your channel is as good as your bot scripting then you shouldn't expect any subs.
Yes
Agreed
I'm guessing a lot of people feel uncomfortable about this, but not me.
I'm all alone, in this warm or cold liminal space.
It would be great to just explore the liminal spaced world in a dream.
There was this eas scenario video on CZcams by electric fanatic where someone when you have a liminal dream it causes you to go insane. That video ruined liminal spaces in dreams for me.
It’s well made tho
Is it wrong that I love liminal spaces? It's the whole reason why play so much Yume Nikki & it's fangames!
As someone who plays vrchat, I experience this so freaking much and it’s so weird. There is a world I like that’s called sky camp. It used to be super populated but after revisiting, no one was there. It’s such a surreal freaking experience
I liked how the one anon mentioned gas stations.
It's a weird emotion pulling into an empty gas station at fuck AM at night, especially when you're the only car there. Not a bad emotion, just weird and oddly calming.
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I’ve lived in sweden for a decade and the whole country is literal liminal everywhere, if you visit stockholm city at night especially a place called ”old town” and just walk around everything is so beautiful and depressing at the same time if you want a close experience to what i’m talking about cry of fear is the closest you’ll get even though the game is dated
There were tons of aged, boring hallways, stairways and unused common areas at my university. One semester I was commuting and had a 7 hour break time between classes one day per week, and eventually I got tired of sitting in the student center with my cheap laptop and went walking around all the old buildings. I would find a particularly eerie place and maybe sit down a while and study. The weirdness of those places were gradually lifted for me because someone would always wander through going about their business. I got weird looks a few times, since those were places you never expected to see someone sitting.
I have seen those liminal urban places overseas that were eerily quiet. The creep factor was added because a chance existed of someone lurking in the shadows to shank you for your loose change.
I never knew there was a proper term for that empty space feeling, one night I booted up GTA 5 director mode with no people, no cars, night, light rain. It was a really neat effect to just walk through the city
I use to be an IT at a huge busy medical campus and once a year campus would shut down and no one would be there but my team. Walking through huge offices, medical labs and underground facilities gave off huge Silent Hill vibes
This is really wild and fascinating to me. I've anxiety and fear surrounding the experience of these spaces since I was a kid, and I never knew there was a name for this whole thing. The first memory I have of it was with video games. Some examples are when you take a door or warp (thinking particularly of Super Mario Bros. here) and end up in a unfamiliar, and often wide open space. Another instance (with Super Mario Bros. 3 this time), is when you fly with the racoon tail, but you are high enough that you lose all points of reference, and sometimes it's just a wide open blue screen, or sometimes there are just clouds. I think the concept of disorientation plays into this in some ways, too. I often will have this feeling when reaching Out Of Bound areas in video games. The last part you showed of the Minecraft mod was particularly anxiety inducing for me. I think maybe it has something to do with the fact that, while you maintain your complete and total freedom to make choices and your agency, the environment you are in is incomprehensible, insofar that you have no typical points of reference, and so you are brought face to face in a very obvious way with the fact that your agency and decisions simply do not matter. In other words, you can choose any door you want, and wander as long as you want to, but you will not find a way out. It makes me think this is something like claustrophobia maybe. Maybe even like the inverse to it? Regardless, thanks for sharing this one. I plan on diving into this much more in the future.
There is something interesting i learnt - apparently fluorescent lights were used in these areas to make people feel uncomfortable. It was apparently a design choice so people don’t ‘ stay around because they actually feel discomfort .. kinda like how fast for places have plastic chairs, these kinda things were deliberate choices. Thats probably why they have such an uneasy feel
Places like most of these make me smile. I used to love empty places at night. Especially if there was fog. One of my favorite things used to be go driving on old two lane highways late at night when there was light fog.
Liminal Spaces are so interesting to be honest. Float, Solar Sand, and AlfaOxtrot made some good Liminal Spaces videos.
And just seeing a place you think you see in your dreams or you HAVE seen them is is cool and creepy at the same time. There could be rooms where it made you feel like you were there during your childhood and gives you a nostalgic feeling. It's crazy