Something about the poolrooms make it so good for me; just how clean everything is despite there being water and humidity everywhere, the fact that you can see sunlight coming from outside gives it an eerie nostalgic vibe, and the fact that vidoes of them show almost no entities but its never completely excluded makes it all the more unnerving but also weirdly comfortable
A refuge for resting and thirsty entities, they will not hesitate at an opportunity to get a meal while catching a drink. The cooler nature of poolrooms makes them perfect for winding down, compared to the lukewarm stuffy nature of backrooms levels.
Honestly, this is unnerving simply because you're completely alone, but this is definitely not nearly as depressing as the backrooms. This would be so cool if you were there with some friends or something, I think
@@ZyxieRumor I don't know about the whole back rooms lore. I feel like giving it levels and monsters and civilization and stuff makes it a lot less spooky. Originally it was just a place you get stuck if you were to somehow violate physics, then you get stuck in an endless office type building until you inevitably die. Lot more of a bummer, but also creepier that way imo.
@@revenantproxy9100 I always saw it as an endless expanse of random geometric shapes, objects, rooms, corridors etc. Rather than there being floors, it's more like just random holes, stairs and ramps creating layers upon layers upon layers. That way it expands seemingly infinity on all planes. I do kind of like the thought of an entity being there but it'd be creepier if there was only one and could only ever be seen in your peripheral vision and it would kind of stalk you and nothing more. That'd drive you insane and you'd be paranoid 24/7. I feel like the thought of being watched by something unknown is more uncomfortable and terrifying than being chased because of the uncertainty and unpredictability of said thing.
Yes but I think the sense of an unknown threat that may be coming closer is a key aspect of the back rooms. Perhaps corresponding with the lost traveler going crazy. However I agree that the back rooms isn’t supposed to feel like it’s heavily populated or even populated at all.
I guess this is computer animation? It looks real and very peaceful... You did such a great job on this.. Truly impressive! I'm not really sure what the "Back Rooms" stuff is about. Looking at nearby videos, it's a video game or conspiracy theory? It doesn't really matter. This was very enjoyable and pleasant. Thanks for sharing!
The Backrooms is basically a creepy pasta, similar to like Slender Man or the SCP. You basically glitch through reality or end up there some other way, but there's an almost infinite amount of floors and each floor has a different theme such as this (the pool room) or the "arctic zone" where it's just room after room of ball pits and you can hear them moving around you so you can feel there's something there besides just you. Idk about if it's a game, im sure there's been a few shitty games made to profit off the success of the videos and stories people tell if the backrooms, but I would absolutely love like a proper game, something similar to Control where you travel through a long progressive storyline and fight through different floors, maybe make the game with good replay availability if they let you choose options and those Options change what levels you end up on.
@tiffanyleatherman9807 The backrooms is a creepypasta (creepypasta means a short creepy online story meant to shock and/or scare the viewer). The backrooms is about when you noclip (noclip is a video game term for materialising through an object without “clipping”) and ending up in a place called the backrooms. The backrooms consist of many levels with different entrances and exits to the level but most people wind up in Level 0, which consist of fluorescent lights with a constant hum-buzz, a moist, yellow carpet, and yellow patterned walls when no clipping from the frontrooms (the frontrooms is the reality you are in right now and is the reality opposite of the backrooms) Level 0 is described to take on the appearance of an office building but with no offices or people, just the walls, lights and floor. In a lot of backrooms levels, there are entities that vary in safety and hostility. Some entities and extremely harmful while others are kinda chill. The poolrooms is the 37th backrooms level and consists of white tiled walls and pools of water (shocker). There are also different classes assigned to all sorts of backrooms levels that are assigned mainly on a level’s traits like it’s safety, security (how random and chaotic the level is) and it’s entity count. The 5 main classes are class 1, 2, 3, 4 and class 5. There are other classes that exceed these basic classes and/or have different traits but those are the main classes. Sanity is an essential survival factor in the backrooms and can deplete the more time you spend in the backrooms, especially on more dangerous levels. The universal drinkable fluid in the backrooms is almond water and can help increase your sanity. There are also certain levels including level 0 that can only be entered from the frontrooms. Also sorry if there are any mistakes in my writing, I am only just recovering from dengue as I am writing this. If you don’t want me to blather on anymore and want more information, I’ll post a link to the fan-made wiki. (Yes there are backrooms fans): backrooms.fandom.com/wiki/Backrooms_Wiki
Damn I wish I was rich so I could request something like this to be built in my home or something. It'd be so comfortable for me, like having my own escape from the rest of the world.
@@JordoGarcia the backrooms is a made up thing where sometimes you can clip into a wall and go on a random floor of the backrooms and some have beings or monsters very interesting I can't explain it well I would suggest to look it up. And lore is like the backstory of something in a way
@@JordoGarcia the backrooms is a place when you noclip out of reality into a :pocket dimension" where everything around you is twisted/disordered depending what level you are on it can range from level 1 to level infinity which technically there are an infinite amount of levels but theres a chance to escape back to reality through any level just not sure how
@@rvmovieguy it wasn’t a game. It probably is now. It just started out like some creepypasta like project that picked up a fanbase and expanded lore. Or maybe it’s real, and someday nobody will ever hear from you as you wander endless corridors scared shitless and drinking almond water. 🤷🏽
I would argue this is infinitely worse than the back rooms. It’s almost impossible to run through waist deep water, and even on the tile it can still be wet and slippery. Not to mention the overwhelming smell of chlorine and the suffocating humidity. Just imagine hearing some kind of distant splashing, feet on wet tile, or kids playing in the water. This isn’t even discussing the fact that you have to choose between dying of dehydration or poisoning yourself with the chlorinated water. Edit: Thank you for quoting the intricate and inflexible doctrine of the backrooms wiki, however this was merely a different interpretation of this concept.
Chlorine dissipates from still water in about 72 hours, in addition you can consume clorinated water extensively for a long time before damage starts. Grab a glass and put it in the sun and within a few hours the chlorine will be gone
i love how this started with a mediocre urban legend and turned into a genre. i love how everyone adds a little bit the architecture and everyone else just rolls with that.
Man, everything is perfect, the recording, the effects, the shadows, literally everything. But what I thought was not so 100% was the darkness and that ending with no ending
It always amazes me how these backrooms variants are always weirdly nostalgic. Like I’ve been to pools covered in tile like that, but only in my dreams could I have remembered such an expanse and weirdly shaped pools
Yes, you got it. I have the exact same feeling of nostalgia. I've had several livid dreams in early childhood exactly like this, with the pools and tiles everywhere, with the morning/afternoon illumination. It's almost eerie how familiar this place is to me, like visiting an old memory.
I've had reoccurring dreams "pool rooms" similar to this ever since I was a little kid and never really could get across that strange feeling I had in those dreams, but this is the best way I could describe it to someone. Seeing this outside of those wierd dreams evokes some very strange and scary nostalgia and is really interesting to me
I only ever dream that I'm accidentally naked or topless in public and have to sneak my way back home...I wake up to find my blankets on the floor. I even sleep with clothes on but I still have the stupid dream.
Amazing work! You definitely have a talent for this, would love to see a series. I’ve always loved the backrooms lore, but this… this reminds me so much of dreams/nightmares I’ve had before. Creepy but I love it.
Honestly didn't know this was supposed to be scary till i checked the comment section. Was too busy thinking about how friggin awesome it would be to have a pool room
Fr I'd love it if there was just a way to get enough food and exercise by swimming in the poolrooms, like you would be so tired but also so strong after a while
I had a strange dream as a toddler that gave me a similar eerie sensation. Instead of pools, however, I was surrounded by aquariums. Sometimes I wonder if it was a dream at all or just an incredibly vague memory from when I was a toddler.
That's what you call dreamcore, or weirdcore, most commonly known as lucid dreams It's similar to back rooms, but with no monsters Strange places where you feel like you've been in, that's because you have, in a dream
I love the progressive lead up to this video in your upload history lol. This looks great! I would love to see more of this and see what lore could develop here
I don’t know what it is about them but swimming pools in my dreams were always the scariest things, I don’t even have a fear of water but I’d always do everything I could to stay out of them in any dream, and this looks exactly like these harmless yet scary pools I’d see
In some cultures/beliefs water is a portal for spirits. So it makes sense. I can’t say that I’m afraid of water in my dreams, but I am always leery of accepting gifts or eating things in dreams. 😂
I really enjoyed this, and would love to see this in real life! I wasn’t aware it was supposed to be scary, but apparently it is to a lot of people in the comments? I just see cool architecture and wish I had such a cool place to swim in!
This pool rooms thing activated something in my mind, I saw them first with your images along with that weird song Six Forty Seven from Instupendo and I had like a flash in my mind. I can't just explain how this make me feel, it's beautifully uncanny and unsettling, it gives me a shitload of vibes and I would love to see more of this
I like how there are no ripples in the water from the movement of the viewer. Adds to the dream like quality that you are more like a ghost drifting through these corridors
I showed these images to a friend of mine earlier, apparently he had a nightmare like this once - he was stuck in a sewer that had white tile and the water was only knee high. It’s interesting because I find these images mostly calming, but he finds them absolutely horrifying
For some reason a very long time ago, I had a nightmare like the footage shown when I was a kid. I still remember it to this day. (Among other nightmares that stuck of course) It was in a huge and I mean absolutely HUGE never ending 'tropical paradise' that got less crowded the further you went... So this really unsettles me as well for some reason.
nightmares are a big reason i dont like liminal spaces. im not surprised other people have had dreams about liminal spaces. i think the real terror comes from that feeling of "uhm...so how do I get out?" so you keep walking and walking...then running when panic sets in that you cant find an exit, and theres nobody around to ask for help...
My favorite part of The Backrooms and its sublevels are that, unlike traditional horror genres, they can be completely well lit with no visible threat and still be the most terrifying thing in the world.
Its also the concept for me that there is this weird and random architecture existing outside of our reality that resembles human architecture but stretched to the extreme; it raises questions for wich we will never get the answers for
@@cosmiclevi5274 exactly, it's like they're just placed there as super realistic props that still bear an uncanny resemblance to our own reality, giving us this weird feeling of apprehension that something ominous is supposed to occur at any moment since it's all happening "backstage" in a sense, a hollow shell of a backdrop that eerily overlaps with our own existence without us even knowing
This uhh... got more attention than expected. 😅 Thanks for the feedback everyone! I am working on more, but these are very time consuming to make. Follow me on Instagram @jaredpike.art for progress teasers.
Same here. I dream of things like this and giant empty areas that look like shopping malls. They are actually really great dreams. I wish there was some actual structure that people could go explore that was related to liminal spaces like this
@@Schizobateman If I had to guess, I would say mine came from visiting the local indoor wave pool complex as a kid. Those places have jaccuzi's and kiddie pools that kind of look like this.
I can’t wait until VR becomes more immersive and we can explore the back rooms for real, can you imagine the workout you would get just walking around and trying to find a way out of a place like this?
@@shikupo Iam curious, can you die in the backrooms or the only thing that can kill you are the monsters? I mean it looks like you won't starve nor get thirty's but you can still feel pain and exhaustion
As someone who grew up playing in indoor pools like this, this is as nostalgic as it is terrifying, I'd love a continuation of this, espesically with the pool theme. Those dark, cave-like areas spook me to my core.
I've never seen anything like this in the US. The poor lighting and gross tiles are terrifying. Is this a common indoor pool layout in central Europe? I've seen water park videos from Poland that look like this
How is it even 1% scary? I don't get it at all. The premise makes no logical sense. Why would, or how could something unnatural be made up of manmade things..? It's just confusing and annoying to me. Maybe I should bet people to pay me money to watch all of these or something. I'd lose for falling asleep.
Here's my interpretation: The backrooms is the abyss. The space In between spaces, that is essentially the gaps between universes. Technically alive and technically near never ending, It exists to keep all dimensions together, like a glue. Alive in the sense that it can change its layout and looks. If the walls of a universe are forced enough by whatever means, then stuff gets through, and sucked in like a drain. It's levels look and present themselves differently depending on what historical era or place they were accessed by. When items, people or living matter get sucked in, (from mushrooms to entire buildings), the abyss adapts and generates itself to look similar. Async forced a doorway into the abyss and wanted to use it for retail and storage, not realising that the space is technically alive. Doing so, the areas around the portal are now starting to crack and cause clipping into the abyss, due to the strain portals cause on universes themselves. The elements and other forms of disease and matter in the abyss causes anything from plant life to dead matter to reanimate in different ways, hence the presence of entities, faceless ones or hounds. The abyss can be seen in dreams sometimes, which is not only the body's way of healing and making sense of higher cognitive evolution traits, but as a way of "feeding" itself to stay alive. Dreams give us a filter, however. We get to explore the abyss with a safety shield, that we can wake up from. Going into the backrooms in person, is a much more dangerous endeavour, and not recommended. It looks like it's man made, so that it can feed off our emotions, fear and atomic being itself. (The pool rooms is merely another form or level)
@@nickacunningham yeah, I have a lot of dreams that are extremely similar in landscape to the backrooms, and tend to have similar feelings and layouts. I thought it would be cool to incorporate that somehow. You're not physically there in dreams, more in a spiritual invisible form, that you dont remember upon waking.
I love your pool rooms soooo much! I find them peaceful and soothing. I just wanna float on my back and drift away to the sound of the warm gently lapping water... I bet I could fall asleep like that... just drifting... forever...
The original concept of the Labyrinth was a manifestation of (interactable and escapable) chaos/madness- and potentially the most natural home for the fragment of ourselves that is destructive and unwanted- the Minotaur. The labyrinth is an ultimate construct of sacrifice and a trial that only the truly worthy could expect to complete. "The Back Rooms" utilizes modern special effects to visually manifest a sense of cosmic horror that you would expect within the walls of a Labyrinth without having to physically build one, now... with a twist. The Labyrinth has become a literal wet dream of escape-room fanatics. Are "The Pool Rooms" a place for care-free adventure? Or could they be the den of a beast and a tomb for the unworthy?
a few weeks ago i went on a trip with a caving group to explore an abandoned slate mine. a large portion of the mine had been almost completely flooded, and so we kept coming across these massive caverns filled with unnaturally vivid dark blue water (i think the minerals in the rock had something to do with the water's colour). because it was so dark underground, you couldn't see the walls or the bottom of the cavern so it looked like it was just water stretching on forever in all directions. it was eerily quiet down there, and the many similar looking caverns had a sort of procedurally generated vibe. this video reminded me a lot of that experience.
@@SteffyCush Fun Fact: this (for a segment) is indeed a real place and isn’t rendered. What place you may ask? The first segment was taken in The Seagaia Ocean Dome in Miyazaki, closed in 2007. Computers cannot render specific details and you can tell at 0:14 with the iridescent water reflections on the wall. The more you know!
@@CesarSalad69 It is obviously rendered. The water physics are a dead giveaway, no ripples coming from the edges of the water, the waves are completely random and are not shaped by the walls. The tile edges of the are too simple, they should be constructed more like actual pool edges, with random filer pockets. There is also a complete lack of dirt and wear, and the tiles are are perfectly aligned, real tiles, there is a slight variation in the flat plane of the tiles, apparent in the reflections on the tile. I am an older autistic, obsessed with CGI since the 1980's, I can spot it a mile away. This is a good attempt though, perfect water physics is difficult to get. I just wonder was this Blender, Unreal, or something else?
The thing that gets me is imagining having to get into one of the pools, like the one in the tunnel. Imagine it’s total quiet everywhere but the sound of you getting in the pool and having to slosh around, all alone, and the sound reverberates through the room. Terrifying,
That's what I started imagining right from the start, but it would give me the best time, ever. Would love to know where this is/was. Edit: This is just immediate inner peace.
Eerie. I'm happy you resisted the urge to add obligatory random Monsters. I've always found the backrooms spookier when the person trapped there is completely alone.
Well that’s because he’s in the safe zone. There’s only entities in the danger zone of the pool level. He showed a couple entrances to them where it’s pitch black
Same, im a little meh on all these depictions of the backrooms that have spooky monsters around every corner, just the fear of being alone in a strange place. Thats what makes it unique compared to every other survival horror cliche
It looks scary and relaxing at the same time. It's scary probably because of how silent it is, a place I saw in my dreams, the unknowns. But what makes it relaxing is the fact that it feels nostalgic and the architecture of the place, oh the silence also makes it
It’s… eerily beautiful! The warm light of the Sun filtering it, the pristine white tiles and the softly waving, turquoise water… I know it would be scary to be trapped there to wander aimlessly on your own but I would be so tempted to explore it and chill around.
The acoustics in a place like that would be fantastic. I'd like to hear a loud prolonged holler in a poolrooms video. Unless, like in the Bangor airport in Stephen King's The Langoliers, sound fails to reverberate. Not hearing an echo would scare me more.
As scary as it would be being stuck here, I actually wouldn't mind exploring a place like this. You should do more levels we haven't seen animated before!
@@kwentongpotchero6750 People sometimes consider the "poolrooms" to be apart of the backrooms but regardless, seems like a pretty relaxing and therapeutic place to be in. Brings back memories of going to waterparks and swimming pools as a child.
For some reason, I think this would make for a nice screensaver. Just imagining having it randomly generate rooms as the camera goes through the rooms like a person. Probably really difficult to make into reality though I'd imagine.
This was incredible! Such beautiful design structures throughout. The last part with the Wanderer running felt like something was after him. Very scary! Shame there is no more Backroom content from you :(
i was waiting for a rendition of this specific liminal space, and you did it extremely well. i like how there isn’t any unnecessary scares or monsters, and it just has that feeling of emptiness and loneliness yet it has the feeling of perfection and exploration as well.
This is cool. I occasionally have dreams that I’m climbing down into and exploring expansive, but light and airy stormwater drains that have a similar feel and look about them.
This reminds me of an indoor pool at a hotel we went to years ago. It wasn't eerie at all though. And my friend's aunt has a huge pool in her house. And since her house is so big, if it were empty it would be pretty creepy (but awesome) to walk through since I've never been in a house of that size. It's amazing.
I'm completely absent the fear of being alone considering half my life was 90% isolation. This kind of stuff makes me feel calm and weirdly nostalgic more than anything
I can relate the only thing that scares me about this video is having to run for such a long distance lol. I’m like slow down man we were just starting to have a good time
@@sugarsore I’ll speak for myself here but I think he was referring to free time, however growing up out in the country it’s pretty easy to be isolated like 90% of the time when you don’t want to be isolated you’re isolated
Now THIS feels like a backrooms level! I don’t like the idea of the lower levels getting darker and with more monsters, because that ruins the point of the backrooms. The pool rooms have the same vibe as the backrooms, but somehow just by adding water, it feels way more threatening, even though nothing’z happening
You have 3 levels in poolrooms 1st safe zone there is nothing there just water and its not deep 2nd main land you can stand there and its still safe but you have infinite suplies and you have platforms to stand and sleep and then there is danger zone and its filled with entitis and its deep and dark in this video you can see dark spots thats danger zone
I feel this way about a lot of these "liminal space" images and videos, but I think the scariest part is just being alone. If I was with my friends, a lot of these would be really cool places to chill and explore, I'd only be afraid if I was all alone (or even more afraid if there was something there that wasn't a friend!)
I once had a dream about an indoor pool the size of a football field and there were 2 stair cases on opposite ends that led to enclosed hallways where you could overlook the pool through a window. The pool was deep blue and the room was a hot pink color. There were 2 strangers playing in the pool and eventually they started floating around. It was so freeing, calm, and blissful feeling.
I had a reoccurring dream when I was little. I was in a little boat in a little man made waterway (very small) and would ride the boat forever. Then my dream would shift and I'd be standing in front of the map of the waterway. I would see where my boat was. Then it would flash and I'd be back on the never ending boat ride.
Dude, I’m both really in love with the architecture and also terrified you’d be forced to swim across a super deep part and either not know how to swim or think there’s something that could swim up and grab you
These pool rooms feel like something taken directly out of one of my dreams. I'm one of the people who finds these calm and serene and not really unnerving at all tbh, but that's probably because it feels like a real place I've been inside my mind.
When I read the comments I was blown away by how many people have dreams about pools. Actually thought I was one of very few. Really thought provoking video even though I'm not sure it was meant to be. Thanks. ⚘
I legit used to have dreams about a never ending swimming pool like this throughout my childhood except that it was a lot more lighter and cheerful in color and there were always thousands of people around you so that you’d never get lonely or afraid.
These are my favorite types of liminal spaces. I actually find them nostalgically pleasant, rather than mildly unsettling. I’d love to just chill and relax in a place like this.
Same! I used to have alot of dreams similar with weirdly designed pools that probably dont exist. Sometimes I'm even a mermaid that can change into a human whenever I want.
These are generational cursed dreams that means a stained tainted blood line deliverance is much so needed don't be surprised if one starts to levitate out of nowhere!😪 oh yes not the deliverance that the same blood line offers
I don’t know man. There’s something “uncomfortable” with this level. Like, I get the peaceful ambience of floating in the water maze but in the same breath, you have to realize that a normal human being can’t move as fast in water as if they were on land. You have 0 fighting chance in this level in my opinion. Granted, you don’t have a fighting chance in any of the back rooms (as far as I know, I’m still learning the lore and it’s so cool haha). Your options are limited to the point where, if you had to face an entity on this level, you’d have to bank on parts of this maze that had ground you could climb up on. I’m probably over thinking this but man. It’s interesting to see different takes from different people. I guess it really comes down to our experiences and how “comfortable” we feel in an environment that hasn’t given us grief in the past. To those who wouldn’t get bothered by this level, I commend you LOL. This would be my worse nightmare given my phobia of all things water and swimming. 😂😂😂😭
The entities here only show up in the danger zone, which can be accessed through the big dark tunnel shown in this video. No creatures will attack you unless you walk in there, and there are some bases here(totalling to around 100+ people in this level) as well as supplies such as food and water that can refill themselves in the main area of this level. You won't have to worry about the anything chasing you in the water as long as you don't go in the danger zone. It's a pretty cool area to stay and chill and you could even make it your own home. It also restores your sanity which is very important, so that's that. Overall, pretty safe as long as you don't voluntarily put yourself in danger.
I agree! I made the same comment and just saw yours! Someone replied saying the same thing your replies said but even though that did calm me the water still scares me a little.
@@avawhiteley2658 I drowned when I was 4 (my own fault for doing laps around a family friends pool 😂) and I also have thalassophobia so anything about water terrifies me. Im glad we share the same fear tho LOL. Makes me feel less alone
These are the literal definition of my biggest phobia. Except more like ones where you are swimming and there's no exit. But these clean, tiled ever expansive pool spaces. I've had nightmares about them my whole life. I was also rescued from drowning at the bottom of a pool as a baby and think thats where it all came from!
I've had dreams in pools like these, the walls, the splashing, the quietness, I'd enjoy sitting in the shallow pools with my friends located in the middle of nowhere tbh
What are now called "liminal spaces" are something that I've had a strong emotional connection with my whole life. Seeing them suddenly become so recognized in the last couple years has been such a trip. I used to make lots of drawings and paintings of places like this and always thought I was so weird. I wanted people to feel the same thing I felt in places like these. I don't think everyone who's drawn to this stuff is necessarily feeling the same things, but I'm sure a lot of us are. They never scared me or freaked me out. I'm not sure exactly how they made me feel. Not joyful or warm or welcomed. But fascinated. I always had a thing for industrial zones, warehouses, parking garages, train stations at night when no one is there. I think it was like a vague combination of wanting to understand something that didn't have a clear purpose, being free to explore that vagueness with no one else around, but also free to apply my own meaning to them. I guess I also just loved the vaguely spooky atmosphere. Coming out of the 90s it's hard not to love a good abandoned industrial zone. Brutalist as fuck.
ngl, being able to see the 3d modeling tutorials also on this channel is such a cool glimpse into how found footage videos like this are made. they look so so real and getting a sneak peek of the talent and effort behind a 2 min clip is amazing
I love this. Not only did you perfectly depict the fear of being alone, you also perfected the fear of unknowing. An example of this is the underpass that was zoomed in on at the beginning, I was think “where the heck does that lead?” and it gave me chills.
I would totally love to go to a place like this with all my friends and just explore for hours, totally alone. I feel like it would be relaxing but also unsettling in a way... ☺ (Edit: yes i know that "with my friends totally alone" doesn't make sense, i was trying to say that it would only be us there, and nobody else.)
The sensation I get from watching these videos is similar to when I go on a map in halo 3. Alone, like your friends have just barely left and all the sudden the headphones are just empty.
My high school had a pool, so I can also smell that glorious chlorine. On a slightly unrelated note, I’ve got my fan turned on in my room right now, and as it oscillates back and forth across me, it makes this video feel even _more_ real!
I don’t understand how anyone could find this relaxing or calm. Just the idea of being alone in here and waiting for something to jump out and attack me would be enough to drive me nuts Edit: For anyone asking how I could possibly find this scary, UM MAYBE BC THERES WEIRD DARK ALLEYS AND THE VIDEO IS LITERALLY JUST EERIE SILENCE AND THE PERSONS CLEARLY RUNNING AWAY FROM SOMETHING AT THE END? It’s just a bad vibe to me, it creeps me out, idk why that’s something to get mad about
I think this looks peaceful because of the natural light and precisely because it is alone, I feel protected, it reminds me a bit of my childhood, i don't know. The first time I saw these images, the first thing I thought it was that I wish I was there at that very moment
@@patatav7780 I think I can understand where you’re coming from there; for me it’s just the anticipation of something happening to me would just make me so paranoid that I wouldn’t be able to survive even if nothing did attack me. Psychological torture
@@FoxOfTheAmulet I think the only time I find these poolcore images scary is when there's like a dark room that's shown nearby like at 1:05, but if it's just a picture of a pool with sunlight pouring down on it then it's calming to me :]
This is the setting of some of my dreams. Its weird honestly everyone is saying how this reminds them of a scary dream or brings them a feeling of anxiety but for me its a feeling of nostalgia mised with something else I cant quite describe, it feels like I'm outside of our universe and in my own infinite reality
It's weird isn't it? How can so many people share the same dreams? And it isn't just these pool dreams, I've heard other people talk about dreams such as all their teeth falling out, Or losing their Penis (worst dream ever) and I've had them dreams too, Amongst others. Makes me think of the Happy valley dream survey all over again. Lol
I don't know why, but it makes me feel very comfortable, especially in this room. I turned the volume up almost to the end to feel as if I was there, and when the video ended, the ad suddenly started. I almost went to backrooms out of fear lol
@@suicidekid7064 I specifically remember a dream where there was a giant Olympic style pool in this huge stadium and a mechanical whale was going back and forth on a vertical bar. Made me so afraid of pools in rec centers
When I was 2, I had a dream where I was looking into a glass house, that held an Olympic pool. There were ladies dressed in swim suits. And they were diving into the pool from the diving board I remember, this was my very first bad dream. Cause in the pool, there was a saw toothed shark. The kind that look like they have a hedge trimmer for a face. What's crazy, is I confirmed this dream with my mom, cause in the dream, I remembered the car that took us there, And even described in detail the car to my mom. It was a car we used to have. When I was 2. I never forget this dream.
You inspired me so much, thank you so much for poolcore. Please create more beautiful liminal spaces. I believe you deserve more credit. I hope to make my own render like this someday. ♥️
I know this is supposed to be scary but I'd vibe in the pool rooms.
For some reason, the pool rooms make me feel cozy and happy
@@Jazker_da_thief same
not until something grabs you by the leg
@@whitecunt6903 well now I have a paddle buddy
Sure buddy
Wait till night. You can’t run through water (:
Something about the poolrooms make it so good for me; just how clean everything is despite there being water and humidity everywhere, the fact that you can see sunlight coming from outside gives it an eerie nostalgic vibe, and the fact that vidoes of them show almost no entities but its never completely excluded makes it all the more unnerving but also weirdly comfortable
Well, this is the safe zone part, but the danger zone is another story...
@@daxondelly2141 Oh I didnt even know there was a dangerzone
A refuge for resting and thirsty entities, they will not hesitate at an opportunity to get a meal while catching a drink. The cooler nature of poolrooms makes them perfect for winding down, compared to the lukewarm stuffy nature of backrooms levels.
My balls hurt when I pee 🕳🧑🏻🦼
@@squadhoodie8895 pee more
This reminds me of a K-mart I swam in when I was a kid. I didn't even know how to swim and K-marts don't have pools. This is a legit memory
I swear I have that same memory… I had arm floaters on. Are we sure Kmarts never had pools? 🤯
what is kmart? Is it like a korean food shop or smth?
@@lee_yeet_felix4974 no it’s an American grocery store chain, kind of like meijer or walmart or target
@@humansizedbirdnest9435 *was* gone out of business now.
@@55379_ancient_trees I think there’s still a couple of them out there holding on for dear life lol
Honestly, this is unnerving simply because you're completely alone, but this is definitely not nearly as depressing as the backrooms. This would be so cool if you were there with some friends or something, I think
This is still the backrooms. This is Level 37 "Sublimity".
@@ZyxieRumor I don't know about the whole back rooms lore. I feel like giving it levels and monsters and civilization and stuff makes it a lot less spooky. Originally it was just a place you get stuck if you were to somehow violate physics, then you get stuck in an endless office type building until you inevitably die. Lot more of a bummer, but also creepier that way imo.
it wouldnt be scary at all imo if you have more than 2 people around you
@@revenantproxy9100 true tho
@@revenantproxy9100 I always saw it as an endless expanse of random geometric shapes, objects, rooms, corridors etc. Rather than there being floors, it's more like just random holes, stairs and ramps creating layers upon layers upon layers. That way it expands seemingly infinity on all planes. I do kind of like the thought of an entity being there but it'd be creepier if there was only one and could only ever be seen in your peripheral vision and it would kind of stalk you and nothing more. That'd drive you insane and you'd be paranoid 24/7. I feel like the thought of being watched by something unknown is more uncomfortable and terrifying than being chased because of the uncertainty and unpredictability of said thing.
The real horror is when you have to clean this and the cost for the maintenance...
Not if you’re super rich
😂 My thoughts exactly.
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💯 I bet you have kids too😆
that's what I was thinking
This is a joke my dad would make. Much appreciated.
This is a really good depiction of the back rooms. No over-exaggerated monsters, just the fear of being alone. You nailed it perfectly
Yes but I think the sense of an unknown threat that may be coming closer is a key aspect of the back rooms. Perhaps corresponding with the lost traveler going crazy.
However I agree that the back rooms isn’t supposed to feel like it’s heavily populated or even populated at all.
@@Chatz9365 the fear comes from being alone in an unknown place. its not a fear of monsters its the natural fear of the unknown.
The backrooms were great until some people started adding entities
@@CarassiusAu ^^^
@@CarassiusAu true
I guess this is computer animation? It looks real and very peaceful... You did such a great job on this.. Truly impressive! I'm not really sure what the "Back Rooms" stuff is about. Looking at nearby videos, it's a video game or conspiracy theory? It doesn't really matter. This was very enjoyable and pleasant. Thanks for sharing!
The Backrooms is basically a creepy pasta, similar to like Slender Man or the SCP. You basically glitch through reality or end up there some other way, but there's an almost infinite amount of floors and each floor has a different theme such as this (the pool room) or the "arctic zone" where it's just room after room of ball pits and you can hear them moving around you so you can feel there's something there besides just you. Idk about if it's a game, im sure there's been a few shitty games made to profit off the success of the videos and stories people tell if the backrooms, but I would absolutely love like a proper game, something similar to Control where you travel through a long progressive storyline and fight through different floors, maybe make the game with good replay availability if they let you choose options and those
Options change what levels you end up on.
@@chrisdanks741 currently the largest numbered backrooms level that is stable is level 9223372036854775807
@tiffanyleatherman9807 The backrooms is a creepypasta (creepypasta means a short creepy online story meant to shock and/or scare the viewer). The backrooms is about when you noclip (noclip is a video game term for materialising through an object without “clipping”) and ending up in a place called the backrooms. The backrooms consist of many levels with different entrances and exits to the level but most people wind up in Level 0, which consist of fluorescent lights with a constant hum-buzz, a moist, yellow carpet, and yellow patterned walls when no clipping from the frontrooms (the frontrooms is the reality you are in right now and is the reality opposite of the backrooms) Level 0 is described to take on the appearance of an office building but with no offices or people, just the walls, lights and floor. In a lot of backrooms levels, there are entities that vary in safety and hostility. Some entities and extremely harmful while others are kinda chill. The poolrooms is the 37th backrooms level and consists of white tiled walls and pools of water (shocker). There are also different classes assigned to all sorts of backrooms levels that are assigned mainly on a level’s traits like it’s safety, security (how random and chaotic the level is) and it’s entity count. The 5 main classes are class 1, 2, 3, 4 and class 5. There are other classes that exceed these basic classes and/or have different traits but those are the main classes. Sanity is an essential survival factor in the backrooms and can deplete the more time you spend in the backrooms, especially on more dangerous levels. The universal drinkable fluid in the backrooms is almond water and can help increase your sanity. There are also certain levels including level 0 that can only be entered from the frontrooms. Also sorry if there are any mistakes in my writing, I am only just recovering from dengue as I am writing this.
If you don’t want me to blather on anymore and want more information, I’ll post a link to the fan-made wiki. (Yes there are backrooms fans):
backrooms.fandom.com/wiki/Backrooms_Wiki
"Should I take this series further?"
Man is that even a question? You manage to make this look so realistic it's unreal. Keep it up!
I like the lighting that the sun gives in the poolrooms, looks like an early morning sunrise. It's actually pretty calm looking
But your alone 😳
There’s no sun
@@mellytoswaggy9101 You’re*
*Looks at the time in there and realizes its 3 am*
Damn I wish I was rich so I could request something like this to be built in my home or something. It'd be so comfortable for me, like having my own escape from the rest of the world.
dude if there wasn't so much lore around these rooms, this would actually be so much fun and an awesome place for a birthday party to be honest.
Can someone explain to me what the lore is? This just showed up in my recommended and I have no idea what the significance is?
@@JordoGarcia the backrooms is a made up thing where sometimes you can clip into a wall and go on a random floor of the backrooms and some have beings or monsters very interesting I can't explain it well I would suggest to look it up. And lore is like the backstory of something in a way
@@JordoGarcia the backrooms is a place when you noclip out of reality into a :pocket dimension" where everything around you is twisted/disordered depending what level you are on it can range from level 1 to level infinity which technically there are an infinite amount of levels but theres a chance to escape back to reality through any level just not sure how
@@Katsuro16 what game-
@@rvmovieguy it wasn’t a game. It probably is now. It just started out like some creepypasta like project that picked up a fanbase and expanded lore.
Or maybe it’s real, and someday nobody will ever hear from you as you wander endless corridors scared shitless and drinking almond water. 🤷🏽
I can smell the chlorine
you've got me hooked. to see the photos is one thing but to move around in the spaces is quite another. incredible! thanks for sharing!
I would argue this is infinitely worse than the back rooms. It’s almost impossible to run through waist deep water, and even on the tile it can still be wet and slippery. Not to mention the overwhelming smell of chlorine and the suffocating humidity. Just imagine hearing some kind of distant splashing, feet on wet tile, or kids playing in the water.
This isn’t even discussing the fact that you have to choose between dying of dehydration or poisoning yourself with the chlorinated water.
Edit: Thank you for quoting the intricate and inflexible doctrine of the backrooms wiki, however this was merely a different interpretation of this concept.
you’re so correct i was thinking the same thing. this is horrifying
No they’re aren’t any entities in the safe zone
Actually, if you smell chlorine that means some other fluid interacted with it like, urine, sweat, etc.
@@trustme560 entities aren't scary they're way to overexaggerated
Chlorine dissipates from still water in about 72 hours, in addition you can consume clorinated water extensively for a long time before damage starts. Grab a glass and put it in the sun and within a few hours the chlorine will be gone
i love how this started with a mediocre urban legend and turned into a genre. i love how everyone adds a little bit the architecture and everyone else just rolls with that.
Didn't this start as a 4chan joke? I love how it transformed into things like this.
I KNOW it's so dang cool
I agree
Heck I thought it was real when I first saw it
@@driventoaccount3276 same lmao
Man, everything is perfect, the recording, the effects, the shadows, literally everything. But what I thought was not so 100% was the darkness and that ending with no ending
I seriously love the look of this environment. Amazing stuff mate !
It always amazes me how these backrooms variants are always weirdly nostalgic. Like I’ve been to pools covered in tile like that, but only in my dreams could I have remembered such an expanse and weirdly shaped pools
When you were young?
Yes, you got it. I have the exact same feeling of nostalgia. I've had several livid dreams in early childhood exactly like this, with the pools and tiles everywhere, with the morning/afternoon illumination. It's almost eerie how familiar this place is to me, like visiting an old memory.
I’ve had weird indoor pool dreams too 😩
@@fftere same feeling
I’ve actually been to a pool like this.
I've had reoccurring dreams "pool rooms" similar to this ever since I was a little kid and never really could get across that strange feeling I had in those dreams, but this is the best way I could describe it to someone. Seeing this outside of those wierd dreams evokes some very strange and scary nostalgia and is really interesting to me
That would actually be a pretty cool dream for me if the entities weren't there
@@teachandfunnstuff3127 It was always sorta unsettling but comforting to me at the same time
I only ever dream that I'm accidentally naked or topless in public and have to sneak my way back home...I wake up to find my blankets on the floor. I even sleep with clothes on but I still have the stupid dream.
I was looking for this comment! I was sure I couldn’t be the only one who had been in the pool rooms before.
I have also had a dream about that before
Amazing work! You definitely have a talent for this, would love to see a series. I’ve always loved the backrooms lore, but this… this reminds me so much of dreams/nightmares I’ve had before. Creepy but I love it.
Honestly didn't know this was supposed to be scary till i checked the comment section. Was too busy thinking about how friggin awesome it would be to have a pool room
This looks like it would actually be a really nice chill place as long as it was a real place and not an alternate dimension.
It would probably be pretty chill as an alternate dimension too. Better than 24/7 battle of Verdun alternative reality.
Fr I'd love it if there was just a way to get enough food and exercise by swimming in the poolrooms, like you would be so tired but also so strong after a while
Yeah, I’m not getting the creepy vibe at all here. Looks like somewhere people would pay a lot of money to visit, tbh.
I saw the same place in my dream holy shit
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I had a strange dream as a toddler that gave me a similar eerie sensation. Instead of pools, however, I was surrounded by aquariums. Sometimes I wonder if it was a dream at all or just an incredibly vague memory from when I was a toddler.
brain causes it with memories, have u been 2 aquariums as a child?
ME 2
Me too had similar dreams
Backroom level: Aquarium
That's what you call dreamcore, or weirdcore, most commonly known as lucid dreams
It's similar to back rooms, but with no monsters
Strange places where you feel like you've been in, that's because you have, in a dream
This video is easily one of the best backrooms video I've seen. Great job man
I love the progressive lead up to this video in your upload history lol. This looks great! I would love to see more of this and see what lore could develop here
I don’t know what it is about them but swimming pools in my dreams were always the scariest things, I don’t even have a fear of water but I’d always do everything I could to stay out of them in any dream, and this looks exactly like these harmless yet scary pools I’d see
Same, everytime I dream about swimming pools, there's something wrong with them and they scare me, but I really enjoy swimming in them in real life
@@RenegadeJames oh word? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Marine spirits……
In some cultures/beliefs water is a portal for spirits. So it makes sense.
I can’t say that I’m afraid of water in my dreams, but I am always leery of accepting gifts or eating things in dreams. 😂
@@EtherealEmpr3ss girl preach. No evil covenants up in here
I really enjoyed this, and would love to see this in real life! I wasn’t aware it was supposed to be scary, but apparently it is to a lot of people in the comments? I just see cool architecture and wish I had such a cool place to swim in!
I’m feeling the same way, the architecture/angles are definitely well thought out. Would be so cool to swim through this
I'm sure there is someone on Reddit who has found out where it is
@@GerstBladeworks it's a level in the backrooms. It's not really in "reality" 🤔
@@GerstBladeworks it’s rendered electronically not real
You can play this at Roblox I played it before and I don't know where the exit was
This pool rooms thing activated something in my mind, I saw them first with your images along with that weird song Six Forty Seven from Instupendo and I had like a flash in my mind.
I can't just explain how this make me feel, it's beautifully uncanny and unsettling, it gives me a shitload of vibes and I would love to see more of this
I like how there are no ripples in the water from the movement of the viewer. Adds to the dream like quality that you are more like a ghost drifting through these corridors
I showed these images to a friend of mine earlier, apparently he had a nightmare like this once - he was stuck in a sewer that had white tile and the water was only knee high.
It’s interesting because I find these images mostly calming, but he finds them absolutely horrifying
Holy shit I clicked on this video because I literally had this nightmare TWICE
No he didn’t
For some reason a very long time ago, I had a nightmare like the footage shown when I was a kid. I still remember it to this day. (Among other nightmares that stuck of course)
It was in a huge and I mean absolutely HUGE never ending 'tropical paradise' that got less crowded the further you went... So this really unsettles me as well for some reason.
nightmares are a big reason i dont like liminal spaces. im not surprised other people have had dreams about liminal spaces. i think the real terror comes from that feeling of "uhm...so how do I get out?" so you keep walking and walking...then running when panic sets in that you cant find an exit, and theres nobody around to ask for help...
@@thekn0wing damn bro guess you know everything
My favorite part of The Backrooms and its sublevels are that, unlike traditional horror genres, they can be completely well lit with no visible threat and still be the most terrifying thing in the world.
I think it's a mixture of the fear of being alone and the weird dreamlike vibe these environments give off.
Its also the concept for me that there is this weird and random architecture existing outside of our reality that resembles human architecture but stretched to the extreme; it raises questions for wich we will never get the answers for
this sounds like an excellent idea for a survival game
@@cosmiclevi5274 exactly, it's like they're just placed there as super realistic props that still bear an uncanny resemblance to our own reality, giving us this weird feeling of apprehension that something ominous is supposed to occur at any moment since it's all happening "backstage" in a sense, a hollow shell of a backdrop that eerily overlaps with our own existence without us even knowing
@@user-ji7ik7ef3s You worded that perfectly thank you
Unpopular thought: The Pool Rooms scarier than the back rooms.
Please take this further because I love seeing your dream pools in motion
This uhh... got more attention than expected. 😅 Thanks for the feedback everyone! I am working on more, but these are very time consuming to make. Follow me on Instagram @jaredpike.art for progress teasers.
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I used to have dreams about partially submerged indoor spaces like these jacuzzi mazes. To me this evokes both nostalgia and wonder. Cool video.
I agree!
yoo same
Same here. I dream of things like this and giant empty areas that look like shopping malls. They are actually really great dreams. I wish there was some actual structure that people could go explore that was related to liminal spaces like this
I wonder why a lot of people seem to have this very specific dream. I would be really interested to find out the explanation
@@Schizobateman If I had to guess, I would say mine came from visiting the local indoor wave pool complex as a kid. Those places have jaccuzi's and kiddie pools that kind of look like this.
Not gonna lie . This looks like a sanctuary for me😂 a little speaker , a cooler with beverages and some floaties, I am the party. 🥰
Yass right, I'll join gurl with some margaritas, they even got sunlight
I grew up in Phoenix, this looks more like a dream come true than a nightmare! Awesome to have rooms that are pools in your house!
I can’t wait until VR becomes more immersive and we can explore the back rooms for real, can you imagine the workout you would get just walking around and trying to find a way out of a place like this?
With realistic dying. Where you die in real life.
@@Disanem Interesting
Imagine playing the backrooms in vr and after you take your headset off for a break, youre inside Level 0
The closest thing is the game Control but it doesn't have a vr mode
@@shikupo
Iam curious, can you die in the backrooms or the only thing that can kill you are the monsters? I mean it looks like you won't starve nor get thirty's but you can still feel pain and exhaustion
As someone who grew up playing in indoor pools like this, this is as nostalgic as it is terrifying, I'd love a continuation of this, espesically with the pool theme. Those dark, cave-like areas spook me to my core.
haha same
I've never seen anything like this in the US. The poor lighting and gross tiles are terrifying. Is this a common indoor pool layout in central Europe? I've seen water park videos from Poland that look like this
@@microbios8586 around Canada in the early 2000s there was a lot of indoor pools like the ones depicted here.
The only reason id be afraid of that place is bugs and diseases
How is it even 1% scary? I don't get it at all. The premise makes no logical sense. Why would, or how could something unnatural be made up of manmade things..? It's just confusing and annoying to me. Maybe I should bet people to pay me money to watch all of these or something. I'd lose for falling asleep.
Here's my interpretation:
The backrooms is the abyss. The space In between spaces, that is essentially the gaps between universes.
Technically alive and technically near never ending, It exists to keep all dimensions together, like a glue. Alive in the sense that it can change its layout and looks.
If the walls of a universe are forced enough by whatever means, then stuff gets through, and sucked in like a drain.
It's levels look and present themselves differently depending on what historical era or place they were accessed by.
When items, people or living matter get sucked in, (from mushrooms to entire buildings), the abyss adapts and generates itself to look similar.
Async forced a doorway into the abyss and wanted to use it for retail and storage, not realising that the space is technically alive. Doing so, the areas around the portal are now starting to crack and cause clipping into the abyss, due to the strain portals cause on universes themselves.
The elements and other forms of disease and matter in the abyss causes anything from plant life to dead matter to reanimate in different ways, hence the presence of entities, faceless ones or hounds.
The abyss can be seen in dreams sometimes, which is not only the body's way of healing and making sense of higher cognitive evolution traits, but as a way of "feeding" itself to stay alive. Dreams give us a filter, however. We get to explore the abyss with a safety shield, that we can wake up from.
Going into the backrooms in person, is a much more dangerous endeavour, and not recommended.
It looks like it's man made, so that it can feed off our emotions, fear and atomic being itself.
(The pool rooms is merely another form or level)
wow thats crazy, i haven’t really thought of it like that- how a dream is a safety blanket.
@@nickacunningham yeah, I have a lot of dreams that are extremely similar in landscape to the backrooms, and tend to have similar feelings and layouts. I thought it would be cool to incorporate that somehow. You're not physically there in dreams, more in a spiritual invisible form, that you dont remember upon waking.
@@llewboy9973 right !! for sure
I love your pool rooms soooo much! I find them peaceful and soothing. I just wanna float on my back and drift away to the sound of the warm gently lapping water... I bet I could fall asleep like that... just drifting... forever...
This is art. No matter how questionable it is, that’s what makes art itself. Great concept. I love the atmosphere of being normal yet disturbing.
@Jack Bean HAHAHA
That's the definition of art. Art comforts the disturb; disturb the comfortable.
Wow, thank goodness for your seal of approval!
no shit. Why do people constantly think only paintings and music are art lmao
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The original concept of the Labyrinth was a manifestation of (interactable and escapable) chaos/madness- and potentially the most natural home for the fragment of ourselves that is destructive and unwanted- the Minotaur. The labyrinth is an ultimate construct of sacrifice and a trial that only the truly worthy could expect to complete.
"The Back Rooms" utilizes modern special effects to visually manifest a sense of cosmic horror that you would expect within the walls of a Labyrinth without having to physically build one, now... with a twist. The Labyrinth has become a literal wet dream of escape-room fanatics. Are "The Pool Rooms" a place for care-free adventure? Or could they be the den of a beast and a tomb for the unworthy?
This would prompt an amazing college literature essay for a Greek Myths course!
@@ariahazelwood3842 yes!
Dude what?
wet dreams?💀
Felt like this was an interpretation of a dream. Great job!
Actually though this is super realistic. Like amazing job on this, you deserve much more recognition
a few weeks ago i went on a trip with a caving group to explore an abandoned slate mine. a large portion of the mine had been almost completely flooded, and so we kept coming across these massive caverns filled with unnaturally vivid dark blue water (i think the minerals in the rock had something to do with the water's colour). because it was so dark underground, you couldn't see the walls or the bottom of the cavern so it looked like it was just water stretching on forever in all directions. it was eerily quiet down there, and the many similar looking caverns had a sort of procedurally generated vibe. this video reminded me a lot of that experience.
That sounds like a cool trip :3 do you share pics or video online?
Mate, that sounds likenif you found the exit of Universe! Where such mine was?
@@naturazpolski9213 yeah it definitely felt like that! it was in north wales, there are quite a lot of abandoned mines there.
Did you go in the water? That sounds eerie!
Probably copper contaminating the water. Can change the ph of the water so do use caution.
I've always loved your renders, it's so great to see them in motion like this!
What if it wasnt rendered...
@@CesarSalad69 It was recorded on material preview if it wasn't rendered
@a normal nyebuoi stan 😱😱
@@SteffyCush Fun Fact: this (for a segment) is indeed a real place and isn’t rendered. What place you may ask? The first segment was taken in The Seagaia Ocean Dome in Miyazaki, closed in 2007. Computers cannot render specific details and you can tell at 0:14 with the iridescent water reflections on the wall. The more you know!
@@CesarSalad69 It is obviously rendered. The water physics are a dead giveaway, no ripples coming from the edges of the water, the waves are completely random and are not shaped by the walls. The tile edges of the are too simple, they should be constructed more like actual pool edges, with random filer pockets. There is also a complete lack of dirt and wear, and the tiles are are perfectly aligned, real tiles, there is a slight variation in the flat plane of the tiles, apparent in the reflections on the tile.
I am an older autistic, obsessed with CGI since the 1980's, I can spot it a mile away.
This is a good attempt though, perfect water physics is difficult to get. I just wonder was this Blender, Unreal, or something else?
Broogli sent me here love The Backrooms.
Respect and keep up the epic work.
I love the way the light shines through, it seems like it'd be a nice place to swim.
The thing that gets me is imagining having to get into one of the pools, like the one in the tunnel. Imagine it’s total quiet everywhere but the sound of you getting in the pool and having to slosh around, all alone, and the sound reverberates through the room. Terrifying,
That's what I started imagining right from the start, but it would give me the best time, ever.
Would love to know where this is/was.
Edit: This is just immediate inner peace.
Eerie. I'm happy you resisted the urge to add obligatory random Monsters. I've always found the backrooms spookier when the person trapped there is completely alone.
Agreed.
Same here
Same
Well that’s because he’s in the safe zone. There’s only entities in the danger zone of the pool level. He showed a couple entrances to them where it’s pitch black
Same, im a little meh on all these depictions of the backrooms that have spooky monsters around every corner, just the fear of being alone in a strange place.
Thats what makes it unique compared to every other survival horror cliche
It looks scary and relaxing at the same time. It's scary probably because of how silent it is, a place I saw in my dreams, the unknowns. But what makes it relaxing is the fact that it feels nostalgic and the architecture of the place, oh the silence also makes it
It’s… eerily beautiful! The warm light of the Sun filtering it, the pristine white tiles and the softly waving, turquoise water…
I know it would be scary to be trapped there to wander aimlessly on your own but I would be so tempted to explore it and chill around.
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imagine you hear someone in the distance yelling “NO RUNNING!!”
imagine it echoing but no one actually said that, it was just you who created that voice in your head
That would be so funny 🤣🤣🤣
No running in the halls
The acoustics in a place like that would be fantastic. I'd like to hear a loud prolonged holler in a poolrooms video. Unless, like in the Bangor airport in Stephen King's The Langoliers, sound fails to reverberate. Not hearing an echo would scare me more.
I'd be terrified lol
As scary as it would be being stuck here, I actually wouldn't mind exploring a place like this. You should do more levels we haven't seen animated before!
It's not backrooms level it's an artwork
@@kwentongpotchero6750 they never mentioned the backrooms?? also read the description
@@kwentongpotchero6750 People sometimes consider the "poolrooms" to be apart of the backrooms but regardless, seems like a pretty relaxing and therapeutic place to be in. Brings back memories of going to waterparks and swimming pools as a child.
@@kwentongpotchero6750 it is a level of backrooms its the 37th level
Feels like a abstract memory of an early 2000s project
I love the vibes this pool is giving off. much nostalgia.
i love the poolrooms! you’re hella talented.
Finally, the concept is being developed more and more. I like where you are taking the project
- someone who overanalyzed liminal space pools
I like that, since the creator didn’t make the poolrooms as a level, they still used it.
My Backroom Footage
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For some reason, I think this would make for a nice screensaver. Just imagining having it randomly generate rooms as the camera goes through the rooms like a person. Probably really difficult to make into reality though I'd imagine.
Probably not that difficult. Procedural generation of video game rooms are already a thing.
Cool idea! 👍🏼
"really difficult to make" yeah .. windows had a procedural generated 3D maze screen saver back in the early 90s boy
@@KenMabie yea this video is reminiscent of that
I think Windows 3.1 had a screensaver that did that.
This was incredible! Such beautiful design structures throughout. The last part with the Wanderer running felt like something was after him. Very scary! Shame there is no more Backroom content from you :(
You captured the spiral stairs so well, looking back at it, you really out did yourself on this.
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Pool guard: OI MATE YOU CAN'T RUN HERE
i was waiting for a rendition of this specific liminal space, and you did it extremely well. i like how there isn’t any unnecessary scares or monsters, and it just has that feeling of emptiness and loneliness yet it has the feeling of perfection and exploration as well.
i wish there were monsters
The pool rooms doesn't need monsters, cuz it's a safe place.
@@Slop_Dogg the monsters would take away from it for me, ruins the vibe
jared pike is the guy that made all these liminal spaces lmao
@Shivam Narewatt what? all of the liminal pool things with this style are made by him to my knowledge. ima be honest I don't get ur question
This is cool. I occasionally have dreams that I’m climbing down into and exploring expansive, but light and airy stormwater drains that have a similar feel and look about them.
This reminds me of an indoor pool at a hotel we went to years ago. It wasn't eerie at all though. And my friend's aunt has a huge pool in her house. And since her house is so big, if it were empty it would be pretty creepy (but awesome) to walk through since I've never been in a house of that size. It's amazing.
I'm completely absent the fear of being alone considering half my life was 90% isolation. This kind of stuff makes me feel calm and weirdly nostalgic more than anything
I can relate the only thing that scares me about this video is having to run for such a long distance lol. I’m like slow down man we were just starting to have a good time
How were you able to spend 90% of your time isolated?
@@sugarsore I’ll speak for myself here but I think he was referring to free time, however growing up out in the country it’s pretty easy to be isolated like 90% of the time when you don’t want to be isolated you’re isolated
@@sugarsore th-cam.com/video/Bk7RVw3I8eg/w-d-xo.html
Yeah I like being alone so it’s kinda nice actually.
Now THIS feels like a backrooms level! I don’t like the idea of the lower levels getting darker and with more monsters, because that ruins the point of the backrooms. The pool rooms have the same vibe as the backrooms, but somehow just by adding water, it feels way more threatening, even though nothing’z happening
You have 3 levels in poolrooms 1st safe zone there is nothing there just water and its not deep 2nd main land you can stand there and its still safe but you have infinite suplies and you have platforms to stand and sleep and then there is danger zone and its filled with entitis and its deep and dark in this video you can see dark spots thats danger zone
I think the pool rooms strike a perfect balance of giving a peaceful but unsettling vibe.
I love this! Ever since I played turok I was always obsessed with water temples and places that have many incorporators in water.
I feel this way about a lot of these "liminal space" images and videos, but I think the scariest part is just being alone. If I was with my friends, a lot of these would be really cool places to chill and explore, I'd only be afraid if I was all alone (or even more afraid if there was something there that wasn't a friend!)
I once had a dream about an indoor pool the size of a football field and there were 2 stair cases on opposite ends that led to enclosed hallways where you could overlook the pool through a window. The pool was deep blue and the room was a hot pink color.
There were 2 strangers playing in the pool and eventually they started floating around.
It was so freeing, calm, and blissful feeling.
Fun fact: those people in your dreams are real
@@MC_XP no they aren’t. They’re fake
Megan Garza Wellness did you try to go back to sleep and dream some more, where you left off?
I dreamed indoor water shoots at like 40 stories up
I had a reoccurring dream when I was little. I was in a little boat in a little man made waterway (very small) and would ride the boat forever. Then my dream would shift and I'd be standing in front of the map of the waterway. I would see where my boat was. Then it would flash and I'd be back on the never ending boat ride.
Dude, I’m both really in love with the architecture and also terrified you’d be forced to swim across a super deep part and either not know how to swim or think there’s something that could swim up and grab you
Yes please take series further. Awesome vid.
These pool rooms feel like something taken directly out of one of my dreams. I'm one of the people who finds these calm and serene and not really unnerving at all tbh, but that's probably because it feels like a real place I've been inside my mind.
When I read the comments I was blown away by how many people have dreams about pools. Actually thought I was one of very few. Really thought provoking video even though I'm not sure it was meant to be. Thanks. ⚘
Yes we should dive deeper into it to realize why these dreams are common
I'm always dreaming about pools!
Wow, it's so unreal that this isn't only experienced by me!!
You are (one of very few). The other 5 have been waiting for you
@@zeppelinl6275 😅😅
I legit used to have dreams about a never ending swimming pool like this throughout my childhood except that it was a lot more lighter and cheerful in color and there were always thousands of people around you so that you’d never get lonely or afraid.
honestly this is way more interesting than the backrooms keep up the good work
These are my favorite types of liminal spaces. I actually find them nostalgically pleasant, rather than mildly unsettling. I’d love to just chill and relax in a place like this.
Same! I used to have alot of dreams similar with weirdly designed pools that probably dont exist. Sometimes I'm even a mermaid that can change into a human whenever I want.
These are generational cursed dreams that means a stained tainted blood line deliverance is much so needed don't be surprised if one starts to levitate out of nowhere!😪 oh yes not the deliverance that the same blood line offers
u r not in your mind
agree
I don’t know man.
There’s something “uncomfortable” with this level. Like, I get the peaceful ambience of floating in the water maze but in the same breath, you have to realize that a normal human being can’t move as fast in water as if they were on land. You have 0 fighting chance in this level in my opinion. Granted, you don’t have a fighting chance in any of the back rooms (as far as I know, I’m still learning the lore and it’s so cool haha). Your options are limited to the point where, if you had to face an entity on this level, you’d have to bank on parts of this maze that had ground you could climb up on. I’m probably over thinking this but man. It’s interesting to see different takes from different people. I guess it really comes down to our experiences and how “comfortable” we feel in an environment that hasn’t given us grief in the past. To those who wouldn’t get bothered by this level, I commend you LOL. This would be my worse nightmare given my phobia of all things water and swimming. 😂😂😂😭
Same
Same here but no entity spawns unless you go to those extremely dark places you see in the video
The entities here only show up in the danger zone, which can be accessed through the big dark tunnel shown in this video. No creatures will attack you unless you walk in there, and there are some bases here(totalling to around 100+ people in this level) as well as supplies such as food and water that can refill themselves in the main area of this level. You won't have to worry about the anything chasing you in the water as long as you don't go in the danger zone. It's a pretty cool area to stay and chill and you could even make it your own home. It also restores your sanity which is very important, so that's that. Overall, pretty safe as long as you don't voluntarily put yourself in danger.
I agree! I made the same comment and just saw yours! Someone replied saying the same thing your replies said but even though that did calm me the water still scares me a little.
@@avawhiteley2658 I drowned when I was 4 (my own fault for doing laps around a family friends pool 😂) and I also have thalassophobia so anything about water terrifies me. Im glad we share the same fear tho LOL. Makes me feel less alone
These are the literal definition of my biggest phobia.
Except more like ones where you are swimming and there's no exit. But these clean, tiled ever expansive pool spaces.
I've had nightmares about them my whole life.
I was also rescued from drowning at the bottom of a pool as a baby and think thats where it all came from!
I've had dreams in pools like these, the walls, the splashing, the quietness, I'd enjoy sitting in the shallow pools with my friends located in the middle of nowhere tbh
What are now called "liminal spaces" are something that I've had a strong emotional connection with my whole life. Seeing them suddenly become so recognized in the last couple years has been such a trip.
I used to make lots of drawings and paintings of places like this and always thought I was so weird. I wanted people to feel the same thing I felt in places like these. I don't think everyone who's drawn to this stuff is necessarily feeling the same things, but I'm sure a lot of us are. They never scared me or freaked me out.
I'm not sure exactly how they made me feel. Not joyful or warm or welcomed. But fascinated. I always had a thing for industrial zones, warehouses, parking garages, train stations at night when no one is there. I think it was like a vague combination of wanting to understand something that didn't have a clear purpose, being free to explore that vagueness with no one else around, but also free to apply my own meaning to them.
I guess I also just loved the vaguely spooky atmosphere. Coming out of the 90s it's hard not to love a good abandoned industrial zone. Brutalist as fuck.
i understand what u mean
Go emotionally connect to some bitches
@@magicdolphon4334 no u
that’s not a liminal space that’s something from the same dictionary called “anemoia”
Kenopsia
ngl, being able to see the 3d modeling tutorials also on this channel is such a cool glimpse into how found footage videos like this are made. they look so so real and getting a sneak peek of the talent and effort behind a 2 min clip is amazing
i was convinced this was a real place, like a club or something
wow! that looks amazing! so many different beautiful pools
Oh you made the poolrooms!! It's awesome you're dedicated to them being part of backrooms lore. ❤
I love this. Not only did you perfectly depict the fear of being alone, you also perfected the fear of unknowing. An example of this is the underpass that was zoomed in on at the beginning, I was think “where the heck does that lead?” and it gave me chills.
You’re a b*tch if you’re scared of being alone
Why would it be scary to wonder where something leads? These obviously lead to nothing but loops lol.
But that's the thing if you are actually there... there is nothing to do but go find out or stay put in that room forever
@@pineappleparty1624 Well yeah, that’s kinda what I meant.
I would totally love to go to a place like this with all my friends and just explore for hours, totally alone. I feel like it would be relaxing but also unsettling in a way... ☺
(Edit: yes i know that "with my friends totally alone" doesn't make sense, i was trying to say that it would only be us there, and nobody else.)
It would be fun until you get separated
Sure it would be fun…. Until you noclip or get separated 😂
It would be fun
seriously that sounds really fun
>explore with my friends
>totally alone
👁️
We still need almond water to survive 😉
This is all 3D animated VFX/CGI?? It's amazing! Looks like something only a luxury hotel can offer in someplace like Dubai. Absolutely stunning!
The sensation I get from watching these videos is similar to when I go on a map in halo 3. Alone, like your friends have just barely left and all the sudden the headphones are just empty.
This is exactly how I felt as a child when my parents took me and my sister to go swimming at the massive high school pool. I can smell the chlorine.
My high school had a pool, so I can also smell that glorious chlorine. On a slightly unrelated note, I’ve got my fan turned on in my room right now, and as it oscillates back and forth across me, it makes this video feel even _more_ real!
chlorine takes a probably big role in the pool rooms but can be deadly in a way cause too much chlorine can lead to skin irritation ect
I don’t understand how anyone could find this relaxing or calm. Just the idea of being alone in here and waiting for something to jump out and attack me would be enough to drive me nuts
Edit: For anyone asking how I could possibly find this scary, UM MAYBE BC THERES WEIRD DARK ALLEYS AND THE VIDEO IS LITERALLY JUST EERIE SILENCE AND THE PERSONS CLEARLY RUNNING AWAY FROM SOMETHING AT THE END? It’s just a bad vibe to me, it creeps me out, idk why that’s something to get mad about
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I think this looks peaceful because of the natural light and precisely because it is alone, I feel protected, it reminds me a bit of my childhood, i don't know. The first time I saw these images, the first thing I thought it was that I wish I was there at that very moment
@@patatav7780 I think I can understand where you’re coming from there; for me it’s just the anticipation of something happening to me would just make me so paranoid that I wouldn’t be able to survive even if nothing did attack me. Psychological torture
@@FoxOfTheAmulet I think the only time I find these poolcore images scary is when there's like a dark room that's shown nearby like at 1:05, but if it's just a picture of a pool with sunlight pouring down on it then it's calming to me :]
I don't understand how anyone can find this anything but relaxing.
Honestly jared's poolroms are really some art. And not just level 0 content like i saw 20 of the videos..
Wow this is amazing. Could only imagine what the pool maintenance costs are on that much water 🤯
I love dreamlike pool structures, and seeing them in motion like this is an unprecedented treat. Well done, and thanks!
This is the setting of some of my dreams. Its weird honestly everyone is saying how this reminds them of a scary dream or brings them a feeling of anxiety but for me its a feeling of nostalgia mised with something else I cant quite describe, it feels like I'm outside of our universe and in my own infinite reality
How odd, I have the same type of dreams. Endless tile and crystal clear water paired with a feeling of nostalgia.
It's weird isn't it? How can so many people share the same dreams? And it isn't just these pool dreams, I've heard other people talk about dreams such as all their teeth falling out, Or losing their Penis (worst dream ever) and I've had them dreams too, Amongst others. Makes me think of the Happy valley dream survey all over again. Lol
I feel exactly the same!
It's definitely got the same vibe as a lot of my dreams. It's odd how we seem to share this.
Me too!
really good render also LOVE THE POOLROOMS
I don't know why, but it makes me feel very comfortable, especially in this room. I turned the volume up almost to the end to feel as if I was there, and when the video ended, the ad suddenly started. I almost went to backrooms out of fear lol
Holy crap, this actually looks real, even down to the water reflections.
He probably has an RTX 3090, as that’s what all the pros have these days.
Eh. It's close, but there are enough little details that are off to completely ruin it for me.
It’s weird seeing this, ever since I was a little kid I had dreams about giant pools with no one in them. So insane I love this
Maybe u were there as a kid
@@suicidekid7064 I specifically remember a dream where there was a giant Olympic style pool in this huge stadium and a mechanical whale was going back and forth on a vertical bar. Made me so afraid of pools in rec centers
When I was 2, I had a dream where I was looking into a glass house, that held an Olympic pool.
There were ladies dressed in swim suits. And they were diving into the pool from the diving board
I remember, this was my very first bad dream.
Cause in the pool, there was a saw toothed shark.
The kind that look like they have a hedge trimmer for a face.
What's crazy, is I confirmed this dream with my mom, cause in the dream, I remembered the car that took us there,
And even described in detail the car to my mom.
It was a car we used to have.
When I was 2.
I never forget this dream.
Same
So dreamlike! I can smell the chlorine from here 🥰 Some distant, echo-y music would be interesting in this one!
You inspired me so much, thank you so much for poolcore. Please create more beautiful liminal spaces. I believe you deserve more credit. I hope to make my own render like this someday. ♥️