Looking at all these photos I have determined the ultimate liminal space: A long hallway with tile walls and a tan carpet, slightly flooded, has a window showing an American suburban street with a red sky, and ends in a dark stairwell.
Someone make one of my nightmares and I'll sincerely give you $100. I have the money... lol prob jk. But plz, rlly, show me my dreamscapes- weird liminal spaces.... I could explain farthur but I also explained in a comment. It'll be at the top or near it ;)
@@pancake_ghosty most of these places are generated and do not exist, they might be even from dreams we had years ago but got forgotten. It might not be as simple as you think it is. As it could be a mixture of your whole life experiences in one.
@@ArchaicScryptz The Langoliers is a novella from King's anthology "Four Past Midnight". There was a two-part movie adaptation in 1995. A passenger airplane goes through a time anomaly and end up in a reality that is out of sync with normal time, landing in a deserted airport where nothing functions. They eventually have to escape from the Langoliers, teeth monsters whose purpose is to clean up spacetime by literally eating the past. Edit: Turns out the whole movie is on TH-cam. th-cam.com/video/LwPi9419ebw/w-d-xo.html
Liminal spaces always remind me of the settings in my dreams. Taking familiar things and making strange structures out of it. Things That sort of make sense, but not really. As far as dreams go, we do all have them. It’s not “I don’t dream” it’s really: “I don’t remember any of my dreams” What I’m saying is more of us have been to these places more personally than we think.
Dreams are reflections of your real life by your subconscious mind, so you'd see places you've been to, but not exactly the same. Familiar, yet unfamiliar.
It just goes to show that Salvador Dali and David Lynch were ahead of their time... Taking familiar things, like everyday conversations and environments, and slightly warping them so they are comprehensible, yet unfathomable.
These images give me the same feeling I would get if I was ever in a school at night, usually for a talent show or dance but instead of participating, my friend and I would explore the empty rooms and halls.
My mum was a school janitor and she would often have to go in the middle of the night if the alarm went off, so I would go with her (as a teenager). Empty schools are fkn creepy. It’s the lack of life, the sense of waiting. Weird.
Fascinating. I'm an older guy (65) and never knew liminal space stuff was even a "thing". I don't play video games ( my kids did, of course) so I recently started seeing liminal space videos on TH-cam. Most of that content appears to be game related. Anyway, after watching a few, I realized these type of "spaces" have in the last few years been in my dreams. I'd describe them as menacing/haunted with something just around the corner, but it never appears. The locations (two huge abandoned factories/warehouses, stairwells, and three different houses) are all super familiar in the dream, but upon waking, I realize I've never seen them before. The feeling in these dreams is dread, haunted, anxious - though in these dreams the monster/ghost never appears. Very unsettling feeling when I wake. Never knew others experienced similar dreams and feelings. These videos remind me of a game called "Myst" my kids played back in the 90's. Very eerie and empty.
The first time I grasped the concept of liminal space is when I tried the beta version of Minecraft, I used to seeing all the mobs, grass, caves and mountains that when I see the world being really emty but not to the the point of flat world where it's completely empty is unsettling.
This is like eartly 00s games where you could already render big scenarios in real time, but not make them very detailed, and because of that, it felt weirdly empty. Some ps2 creepy nostalgia right there.
I think a large part of it is that liminal space is always where there are no people. The minute someone is there is ceases to be liminal space. It's places where there should be life, where nothing looks wrong, yet for some reason it's abandoned, and that sets off alarms in your mind. There should be people here, or even animals, if it's outside. But there isn't. Which means something made them leave, or worse. It means there might be some danger you can't see. That combined with the pictures being places that embody many people's dream-space makes it feel like something bad has happened in a place that's familiar. Does that make sense? I'd love to talk about other ideas, this stuff is so cool to me lol. Edit: 4:26 Wait. That... that's the place. I did art of this lake, but it was winter, and I didn't know it was real... I put it in my book, too... a character has recurring nightmares about it. He describes it as a "huge mirror", and there was always a figure in the middle, and fog. In the story it represents something. I wish I could show the picture I drew, but I can't. That is really weird. Edit edit:16:42 isn't that... didn't someone pee in that ball pit?
So, I've been fascinated by liminal spaces all my life, but as an adult, I've gotten to explore such places. I usually find them when I'm out on a walk at night. I have a weird sort of hypnotic, euphoric feeling about such spaces. Partially entranced by the beauty, a little worried about being set upon by strangers, but also curious. Like if I keep walking, I'll end up in another world. I've had many such irrational walks where I actually end up by the highway, just trying to see how far I can walk before I find people.
I live in Oregon and was like, less than a mile from the evacuation sites when we were having really bad wildfires and I felt like I was in liminal space for like a whole week because the sky was always a crimson red and the sun was like neon orange and it was so surreal. The sunsets looked like they weren’t even from this planet and then you throw the Oregon fog into the mix AND the fact that we were constantly being advised to not go outside because the air quality was at critically toxic levels just made me feel like I was in a sci-fi movie and it was so surreal and eerie yet beautiful that it creeped me out and amazed me all at once. I can’t believe I got to witness something so ethereal.
I really recommend “Superliminal”. It’s a puzzle solving game in first person and it’s all about making your way out of a “dream inducing program” that puts you through a series of “tests” in liminal spaces. It’s a real piece of art! Love your videos btw. Peace ✌️
7:16 I LOVE THIS ONE It's really strange, I really feel I've been there or at least a very similar place in my childhood or maybe in a dream, but even when you specified it's CGI it looks so well made and real.
I was always told that liminal spaces were "tween places.". They're used in some forms of Traditional Witchcraft, for various acts of sorcery. The edges of properties, especially ones where the landscape changes, for example cultivated yards and gardens, to forests, or overgrown fields. The edges of cliffs, shorelines of lakes, seas and oceans, etc. I think that they're related to The Fae (fairies,) too. Even door frames are liminal spaces. The only ones that really scare me, are like, the edges of high cliffs, and such. But that's more because I have a slight fear of heights. Edit: I have a fear of heights, when there's no safety rails or what not. It's the fear of heights for me. It's the fear of accidentally losing my balance and falling. Even that wasn't much of an issue until I feel with a ladder. Like, it collapsed under me, since it was defective.
"A place that I feel like I've seen" Probably because we dream these types of random weird places all the time and are thus familiar from that odd archetypal fabric.
OMG that library for kids at the end gave me flashbacks that I had forgot about!! Those steps are for the kids to sit on for reading time!! The adult sits in the corner and all the kids can see the book! Our small town library had a similar set up but the whole floor was just that gross green 90's carpet and brown wooden shelves. The kids reading area that had this was also up a creepy narrow hallway of stairs to the smallish room like this! Similarly, the old church I was forced to go to had the same creepy 90's vibe. I don't have any pictures but it was the same green/brown/white color scheme, winding hallways, and empty a majority of the time 6.6;
The red picture was taken somewhere in or around Bend, Oregon last summer (2020) when we had record breaking wild fires. The sky was glowing orange and red for days
14:48 is a reading circle. I would have loved to have one at my school. I babysat at a daycare that had one. The stairstep amphitheater design is so all the kids can see and hear the reader at the bottom.
All these pictures just give me “The backrooms” feel. I know that whole creepypasta is a couple years old now but I always loved the look of those pictures when it was popular.
Liminal Space for me are places that I saw on my dreams and nightmares, something that I've know somewhere but never been there. Or video games that somebody points out here. I remember walking around big fields or empty place on my ps2
It's that last look into the apartment you're moving out of after the U-Haul is full of your furniture and belongings. A brief rush of memories and a distant sense of loss as you bid farewell to who you were here. A contemplation of the unknown as you might briefly think about who will live here next and what memories you will make in your new home
The neighborhood in the movie Vivarium is a great example of liminal space too. Just thought of it while watching this. Now I know why it was so eerie to look at.
Far out I knew I remembered you from somewhere! I was thinking, ‘Wasn’t this guy an ASMRist? I was thinking ‘ASMR Aviator’ or something lol… I was pondering this for two days before discovering your ‘Other channels’ tab… this is surreal. I’ve been following that channel since it began. My god time has flown by. Regardless, you’re still GregBroDudeMan to me anyhow
In my mind, liminal spaces are sort of on the borderline of mundane horror. At least, that's the feeling they invoke in me. The sort of feeling you get going into an abandoned building. Like; "If I keep going, I'm not sure if I'll actually be alone in here."
It's really interesting, the 'creepy nostalgia' that you described fits it really well. But really who isn't somewhat scared or wary of liminal spaces. I mean just imagine a shopping mall, imagine yourself in there, but everything's empty, dark and silent. Who wouldn't be scared of that, I know I definitely would be. Liminal Spaces can literally be anything, a dark, empty and uncomfortably long hallway, an empty hospital.... That's literally what liminal spaces are, normal looking environments but with something in it that makes it scary or uncanny. There's actually a game which portrays that, it's name is Anemoiapolis.
So this is why I’d feel so anxious when walking out of my classroom to the empty hallways and student center of my school when getting picked up early 😭🤚
Liminal space is like an image of something that just feels out of place. That's what I feel from it like it can be nostalgia and be like why is this here or like oh I've seen that before and it just feels out of place.
I'd describe liminal space as the calm before the storm. It's just too blank and "quiet" to be true. Like in movies when everything/-one stops for a second and then hell's let loose.
if your in a small town and you go driving past midnight everything feels like liminal space. everything is so empty but still have the lights on as if something caused everyone to vanish at a sudden.
We should start a petition or some sort of fund raiser to have a liminal space/nostalgia attraction built. Maybe an escape room? Maybe some sort of maze? Regardless, I bet it would make tons of cash with the right marketing. You could even have eerie music faintly playing throughout the building as you walk through it (like six forty seven, or goodbye to our world). It would be even better if only one person could go in at a time so they could really feel the isolation. Idk, I just want something like this.
Just found your channel and you are one of the few people that make "reaction" videos interesting for me! I don't know if you still look at the comments here but i would suggest a video game called superliminal, it's like a puzzle-narrative style game, really unique you might like it!
I remember very clearly that in the pool near our house there was a part that was rarely used and no one really swam there and it always gave me a weird feeling, now I finally know what that feeling was, pretty cool.
The hotel hallway at 2:00 is creepy for me because of the angle in which it was photographed. You can't see around the corner. It's very easy to imagine something or someone hiding back there.
I feel like that remind me a lot of rooms that I would see in my dreams, that’s why it creeps me out, they are slightly off just like when you are dreaming
The time I learned about Liminal Space was actually back in 2010 when I joined the Army. The military has a lot of the dark dank hallways that are empty a lot where lines of troops would set up waiting for whatever shots/examination/etc. When they aren't used? It's weird turning a corner to a hallway with *THAT* type of tiling to it with only one light on the right side 100ft down the hall at 2am whilst you're trying to just mop the fuckin thing and GTFO. Furniture? Nope. Classic NOTHING in here until we use it box of a room. Just weird shit brodudeman . . . weird shit.
I’m glad you touched on this mate. I recently told a story of an eerie-ass ‘liminal space’ experience I’ve had not too long ago, and yeah… this stuff is the real shit.
for me, liminal spaces feel like somewhere you would wake up in when ure in a coma or something. the constant waiting and not knowing anything from the outside of that space, ure trapped there and its not quite uncomfortable but u just desperatly want to leave
14:14 oh my god, i swear my kindergarden classroom had a reading corner that looked just like this- with the weird steps and everything. the lights were different and I'm certain there wasn't a door there, but I have vivid memories of this
I think that what gets to me the most about these pictures is the color of the sky. Like the one in the picture with three slides and the one in the bus. It's just such a weird shade of blue and I think it gives it more of that dream like vibe.
Liminal space is like a space you are very familiar with, but you’ve never seen it without people or lights, and you’re not used to it so it feels weird
Some of those places seem like a nice place to chill out. I've never understood the liminal space thing. It just doesn't do anything time. Some are even relaxing/comforting.
I have to admit it reminds me of the Nintendo 64 for some reason.. Almost like the uncanny valley in terms of digital space. I think that's it, why it's weird for some people. We spent a lot of our youth running around these types of environments except they were games. Now we're older it seems unsettling and nostalgic.
When I was going through serotonin syndrome every smell, touch, noise reminded me of some reality where I’m stuck in that exact place and can’t leave. Like it felt like life had one viewing angle, and I was hit with INTENSE anxiety. Fuck I wish I could explain it..
Usually some of the main reasons why we find it so unsettling is the lack of people where there usually would be, darkness and being unable to see where something leads, a lot of the times it’s taken at a weird angle or it is very blurry, or maybe it just falls into the uncanny valley.
Around 14:45 - I had a classroom like that in middle school. It was a music room. Bottom left door is probably a teacher’s office, door on the top left is probably storage or a way out of the room to the hallway, and the door on the right looks like a door to the outside (per the EXIT sign - we had one of those in our choir room too.)
I totally get the creepy nostalgia thing. Sometimes I will have a sense of familiarity, but a sense of distance, almost like a very early memory or a memory from a past life. It's quite interesting.
That’s red photo of the ups vans is from Oregon! I live in Oregon and this is when we had all the bad fires last year! That’s crazy it ended up on your channel!!!! Lol
Man, some of these really get me. Especially those with white tiles and office spaces. I used to go to work and college really, REALLY early, to the point where there were some times when I was the only one there, and seeing those places (which are supposed to be full of people) empty, and on top of that, poorly lit because not all lights are turned on yet.... it just gives me some weird vibes. Also, some of the liminal pictures of malls or game zones in malls with those whacky carpets and colors feel weird yet familiar as well, don't really know why.
The ones that seem to mess with my mind the most are the Highway bridges with the lights that seem to intertwine and intersect but lead to nowhere. Its exactly what I see in my dreams...or the images of tall bridges with a flooded landscape, or the empty dated looking shopping malls...lol gets me every damn time. Also, You see a lot of liminal space used in Pink Floyd's album art. I guess that's why some people find it disturbing yet some (like myself) find it comforting. "Is there anybody...out...there?"
When I was in lithuania in a sauna, there was this cold pool once you came out of the sauna. It was behind the corner, and for some reason the lights were off, so it was just this very dimly lit corner where there was a round pool (with tiles of course), it was so teriffying
These remind me of my nightmares. Not in any abstract way- but quite litteral. Especially the kids rooms that are so off. In my dreams, I usually crawl through a hole in the wall, gap in the couch, etc. Then I end up in these places, explore them, then chase a Coraline's mom-like monster in order to find- typically my brother, but sometimes my pets or something. The rooms will have a school gym, childrens playroom, empty, lonly, nostalgic feeling to them. They have incredibly tall ceilings, walls are usually white or cream painted brick, tile, or painted drywall. They have kids toys, a run-down factor, and low lighting. I'm usually alone or with just a friend or sibling. It's creepy and off. The stairs are weird shapes, some rooms use jungle gyms, spiral staircases, or kids toys to get from one level to another. The toys are often bright and colorful, everything looks neat and clean, and it smells like cleaner or hand sanitizer... I genuinely don't know how to describe it better than this...
@14:40: Here in Canada, where there can be huge social-cultural differences between the English and French parts of the country; esthetic tastes are one of them. That image looks just like any public space aimed at kids at either a French community center or school. @15:45: That roughly says "no backflipping" (or lit. "no springing in backwards").
I tend to fear or avoid liminal space photos, because of my chronic vivid nightmares. As a kid before I ever even knew these things, or used the internet everyday, these liminal spaces made up a lot of major locations in my nightmares. Every once in awhile, those exact places return to me in my sleep.
The fake ones look like alternative album covers, like the pink building with the pool looks like a Glass Animals cover and the stairs half submerged in water looks like a Radiohead one
Wow! I never saw anything about liminal spaces before, but some of these really would make me feel in danger if i were to find myself there in real life... especially the empty staircases, corridors with dark hallways and pitch black entrance points... It makes me feel like something might be hiding just around the corner and gives me the feeling of being stalked at all times. Also the fear doubles if the ceelings are higher than necessary. Great! Seems I'm afraid of liminal spaces...
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"You have to wear Crocs whole you're here"
That's the funniest thing I've heard all day
All week*
Looking at all these photos I have determined the ultimate liminal space:
A long hallway with tile walls and a tan carpet, slightly flooded, has a window showing an American suburban street with a red sky, and ends in a dark stairwell.
I need an artist to make it happen
that’s the most absolute terrifying thing i’ve ever had to imagine in my life
I hope someone makes this
Someone make one of my nightmares and I'll sincerely give you $100. I have the money... lol prob jk. But plz, rlly, show me my dreamscapes- weird liminal spaces.... I could explain farthur but I also explained in a comment. It'll be at the top or near it ;)
@@GregBroDudeMan on it
"Creepy nostalgia" is the best description of the way these make me feel that I've ever heard.
Creepy nostalgia for something that I never lived
And melancholy
Guys it's video games from when we were young. Think Nintendo 64, etc. I'm sure that's it.
@@pancake_ghosty most of these places are generated and do not exist, they might be even from dreams we had years ago but got forgotten. It might not be as simple as you think it is. As it could be a mixture of your whole life experiences in one.
It sounds like the Twilight Zone to me, which is also creepy and nostalgic.
The best use of liminal space in film is the shining. Super creepy and is everything you're describing
You got me thinking about another Stephen King story. The empty airport before the Langoliers show up definitely fit the description as well.
@@Sinistaire which ones this from? its buried deep in my brain lol
@@ArchaicScryptz The Langoliers is a novella from King's anthology "Four Past Midnight". There was a two-part movie adaptation in 1995.
A passenger airplane goes through a time anomaly and end up in a reality that is out of sync with normal time, landing in a deserted airport where nothing functions. They eventually have to escape from the Langoliers, teeth monsters whose purpose is to clean up spacetime by literally eating the past.
Edit: Turns out the whole movie is on TH-cam.
th-cam.com/video/LwPi9419ebw/w-d-xo.html
@@Sinistaire sick! Will follow up and check the movie when i can! thank you for the education! :)
It Follows too
Liminal spaces always remind me of the settings in my dreams. Taking familiar things and making strange structures out of it. Things That sort of make sense, but not really.
As far as dreams go, we do all have them. It’s not “I don’t dream” it’s really: “I don’t remember any of my dreams”
What I’m saying is more of us have been to these places more personally than we think.
Dreams are reflections of your real life by your subconscious mind, so you'd see places you've been to, but not exactly the same. Familiar, yet unfamiliar.
It just goes to show that Salvador Dali and David Lynch were ahead of their time... Taking familiar things, like everyday conversations and environments, and slightly warping them so they are comprehensible, yet unfathomable.
These images give me the same feeling I would get if I was ever in a school at night, usually for a talent show or dance but instead of participating, my friend and I would explore the empty rooms and halls.
My mum was a school janitor and she would often have to go in the middle of the night if the alarm went off, so I would go with her (as a teenager). Empty schools are fkn creepy. It’s the lack of life, the sense of waiting. Weird.
You are so right!
And try to figure out if the teachers actually lived at school jk
Liminal space really does just feel uncomfortably familiar but you can’t place it which makes it even more uncomfortable
Like being in a too calm setting in a dream where you KNOW something bad is about to happen.
Fascinating. I'm an older guy (65) and never knew liminal space stuff was even a "thing". I don't play video games ( my kids did, of course) so I recently started seeing liminal space videos on TH-cam. Most of that content appears to be game related. Anyway, after watching a few, I realized these type of "spaces" have in the last few years been in my dreams. I'd describe them as menacing/haunted with something just around the corner, but it never appears. The locations (two huge abandoned factories/warehouses, stairwells, and three different houses) are all super familiar in the dream, but upon waking, I realize I've never seen them before. The feeling in these dreams is dread, haunted, anxious - though in these dreams the monster/ghost never appears. Very unsettling feeling when I wake. Never knew others experienced similar dreams and feelings. These videos remind me of a game called "Myst" my kids played back in the 90's. Very eerie and empty.
"the vibe is off" yeah that ballpit still gives me flashbacks of my tumblr dashboard
Dashcon?
I love liminal space. None of these were uncomfortable to me, I'd love to actually go to them
same
Same, specially the one at 7:16
What if I’m uncomfortable but I’d still like to go to them? 😂
@@fluffycuteish ME!!
Me too
liminal spaces evoke a feeling of dejavu and a surreal familiarity for me. they work because they play off of nostalgia and emptiness.
Before I had a slight idea what liminal space was.
After reading that description I had no idea what liminal space was.
Wouldn't expect any less from Reddit
It reminds me of the intro to the Twilight zone, and it makes sense that it would be similar to that.
My friend told me about ur subnautica let’s play and since then I’ve been binging all of your videos
Are we going to ignore the red eyes that gradually appear with the dark sky picture?
Yes I saw that to and wanted to check in the comments and see if anyone else saw them
@@keetakitkat5304 pretty sure that was Cthulhu lol
@@shadowforce345 this is just a sign that where going to die soon. Haha
@@keetakitkat5304 we got it all wrong. It wasn’t 2012 it was 2021 ;-;
Oh no. Guess we better start making dooms day preparation
Liminal spaces always reinforce the fact that I'm alone, yet make me feel like someone or something else is there too...
The first time I grasped the concept of liminal space is when I tried the beta version of Minecraft, I used to seeing all the mobs, grass, caves and mountains that when I see the world being really emty but not to the the point of flat world where it's completely empty is unsettling.
D A S H C O N: lest we forget
This is like eartly 00s games where you could already render big scenarios in real time, but not make them very detailed, and because of that, it felt weirdly empty.
Some ps2 creepy nostalgia right there.
I live in a valley so when I can't see mountains off in the distance, it freaks me out. So empty, so... wrong.
holy shit i love liminal space… all of my dreams are like this, and i love it and i now know that theres a name for it
I think a large part of it is that liminal space is always where there are no people. The minute someone is there is ceases to be liminal space. It's places where there should be life, where nothing looks wrong, yet for some reason it's abandoned, and that sets off alarms in your mind. There should be people here, or even animals, if it's outside. But there isn't. Which means something made them leave, or worse. It means there might be some danger you can't see. That combined with the pictures being places that embody many people's dream-space makes it feel like something bad has happened in a place that's familiar. Does that make sense? I'd love to talk about other ideas, this stuff is so cool to me lol.
Edit: 4:26 Wait. That... that's the place. I did art of this lake, but it was winter, and I didn't know it was real... I put it in my book, too... a character has recurring nightmares about it. He describes it as a "huge mirror", and there was always a figure in the middle, and fog. In the story it represents something. I wish I could show the picture I drew, but I can't.
That is really weird.
Edit edit:16:42 isn't that... didn't someone pee in that ball pit?
it's like the surroundings in a dream that, in the dream, you never focus on, but it's surreal to see what it looks like
Greta way to put it
So, I've been fascinated by liminal spaces all my life, but as an adult, I've gotten to explore such places. I usually find them when I'm out on a walk at night. I have a weird sort of hypnotic, euphoric feeling about such spaces. Partially entranced by the beauty, a little worried about being set upon by strangers, but also curious. Like if I keep walking, I'll end up in another world. I've had many such irrational walks where I actually end up by the highway, just trying to see how far I can walk before I find people.
I live in Oregon and was like, less than a mile from the evacuation sites when we were having really bad wildfires and I felt like I was in liminal space for like a whole week because the sky was always a crimson red and the sun was like neon orange and it was so surreal. The sunsets looked like they weren’t even from this planet and then you throw the Oregon fog into the mix AND the fact that we were constantly being advised to not go outside because the air quality was at critically toxic levels just made me feel like I was in a sci-fi movie and it was so surreal and eerie yet beautiful that it creeped me out and amazed me all at once. I can’t believe I got to witness something so ethereal.
You and your background are the only thing keeping youtube going for me
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16:39 hit me with that dashcon nostalgia when I least expected it
I really recommend “Superliminal”. It’s a puzzle solving game in first person and it’s all about making your way out of a “dream inducing program” that puts you through a series of “tests” in liminal spaces. It’s a real piece of art! Love your videos btw. Peace ✌️
These feel even more familiar to me since Liminal Space is almost all I dream about.
7:16 I LOVE THIS ONE
It's really strange, I really feel I've been there or at least a very similar place in my childhood or maybe in a dream, but even when you specified it's CGI it looks so well made and real.
Theres an indoor pool i used to go to as a kid wich looks exactly like this, except that the slides are in a different place.
The best way I’ve had liminal space described to me is that it’s the Uncanny Valley, but applied to a place rather than a thing.
Play other games like Minecraft or terraria they don’t have to be water based games :) please
I was always told that liminal spaces were "tween places.". They're used in some forms of Traditional Witchcraft, for various acts of sorcery. The edges of properties, especially ones where the landscape changes, for example cultivated yards and gardens, to forests, or overgrown fields. The edges of cliffs, shorelines of lakes, seas and oceans, etc. I think that they're related to The Fae (fairies,) too. Even door frames are liminal spaces. The only ones that really scare me, are like, the edges of high cliffs, and such. But that's more because I have a slight fear of heights. Edit: I have a fear of heights, when there's no safety rails or what not. It's the fear of heights for me. It's the fear of accidentally losing my balance and falling. Even that wasn't much of an issue until I feel with a ladder. Like, it collapsed under me, since it was defective.
"A place that I feel like I've seen"
Probably because we dream these types of random weird places all the time and are thus familiar from that odd archetypal fabric.
OMG that library for kids at the end gave me flashbacks that I had forgot about!!
Those steps are for the kids to sit on for reading time!! The adult sits in the corner and all the kids can see the book! Our small town library had a similar set up but the whole floor was just that gross green 90's carpet and brown wooden shelves. The kids reading area that had this was also up a creepy narrow hallway of stairs to the smallish room like this!
Similarly, the old church I was forced to go to had the same creepy 90's vibe. I don't have any pictures but it was the same green/brown/white color scheme, winding hallways, and empty a majority of the time 6.6;
The red picture was taken somewhere in or around Bend, Oregon last summer (2020) when we had record breaking wild fires. The sky was glowing orange and red for days
14:48 is a reading circle. I would have loved to have one at my school. I babysat at a daycare that had one. The stairstep amphitheater design is so all the kids can see and hear the reader at the bottom.
I had one of these in grade school, it was so cool!
All these pictures just give me “The backrooms” feel. I know that whole creepypasta is a couple years old now but I always loved the look of those pictures when it was popular.
Yeah, I think that the back rooms are just weird cg pool photos and creepy hotel hallways mushed together.
Liminal Space for me are places that I saw on my dreams and nightmares, something that I've know somewhere but never been there.
Or video games that somebody points out here. I remember walking around big fields or empty place on my ps2
It's that last look into the apartment you're moving out of after the U-Haul is full of your furniture and belongings. A brief rush of memories and a distant sense of loss as you bid farewell to who you were here. A contemplation of the unknown as you might briefly think about who will live here next and what memories you will make in your new home
The neighborhood in the movie Vivarium is a great example of liminal space too. Just thought of it while watching this. Now I know why it was so eerie to look at.
Very glad you made a video on this! After mentioning it in your previous video, I was looking for a vid of yours on it
the dashcon ball pit being described as creepy has me wheezing
Far out I knew I remembered you from somewhere! I was thinking, ‘Wasn’t this guy an ASMRist? I was thinking ‘ASMR Aviator’ or something lol… I was pondering this for two days before discovering your ‘Other channels’ tab… this is surreal. I’ve been following that channel since it began. My god time has flown by. Regardless, you’re still GregBroDudeMan to me anyhow
In my mind, liminal spaces are sort of on the borderline of mundane horror. At least, that's the feeling they invoke in me. The sort of feeling you get going into an abandoned building. Like; "If I keep going, I'm not sure if I'll actually be alone in here."
It's really interesting, the 'creepy nostalgia' that you described fits it really well. But really who isn't somewhat scared or wary of liminal spaces. I mean just imagine a shopping mall, imagine yourself in there, but everything's empty, dark and silent. Who wouldn't be scared of that, I know I definitely would be. Liminal Spaces can literally be anything, a dark, empty and uncomfortably long hallway, an empty hospital.... That's literally what liminal spaces are, normal looking environments but with something in it that makes it scary or uncanny. There's actually a game which portrays that, it's name is Anemoiapolis.
So this is why I’d feel so anxious when walking out of my classroom to the empty hallways and student center of my school when getting picked up early 😭🤚
I love luminal space, looking at pictures make me feel very comfortable. Honestly, I'd love to be there
Liminal space is like an image of something that just feels out of place. That's what I feel from it like it can be nostalgia and be like why is this here or like oh I've seen that before and it just feels out of place.
6:14 that one looks real because it is. It's from an article talking about how a subway in Japan flooded.
Who remembers when Liminal Space was called
Places that feel like you've been there before
i didnt call them that i just called them "places that feel safer"
I'd describe liminal space as the calm before the storm. It's just too blank and "quiet" to be true. Like in movies when everything/-one stops for a second and then hell's let loose.
if your in a small town and you go driving past midnight everything feels like liminal space. everything is so empty but still have the lights on as if something caused everyone to vanish at a sudden.
your videos are really good paired with lofi late at night
your voice is very calming
We should start a petition or some sort of fund raiser to have a liminal space/nostalgia attraction built. Maybe an escape room? Maybe some sort of maze? Regardless, I bet it would make tons of cash with the right marketing. You could even have eerie music faintly playing throughout the building as you walk through it (like six forty seven, or goodbye to our world). It would be even better if only one person could go in at a time so they could really feel the isolation. Idk, I just want something like this.
Perhaps a Hallowe'en Haunted House?
Just found your channel and you are one of the few people that make "reaction" videos interesting for me! I don't know if you still look at the comments here but i would suggest a video game called superliminal, it's like a puzzle-narrative style game, really unique you might like it!
I remember very clearly that in the pool near our house there was a part that was rarely used and no one really swam there and it always gave me a weird feeling, now I finally know what that feeling was, pretty cool.
Even if the views don’t go all they way up pleaseeeee do more of these. This has been my fav video of yours ❤️
The hotel hallway at 2:00 is creepy for me because of the angle in which it was photographed. You can't see around the corner. It's very easy to imagine something or someone hiding back there.
I feel like that remind me a lot of rooms that I would see in my dreams, that’s why it creeps me out, they are slightly off just like when you are dreaming
The time I learned about Liminal Space was actually back in 2010 when I joined the Army. The military has a lot of the dark dank hallways that are empty a lot where lines of troops would set up waiting for whatever shots/examination/etc. When they aren't used? It's weird turning a corner to a hallway with *THAT* type of tiling to it with only one light on the right side 100ft down the hall at 2am whilst you're trying to just mop the fuckin thing and GTFO.
Furniture? Nope. Classic NOTHING in here until we use it box of a room. Just weird shit brodudeman . . . weird shit.
THE ONE WITH THE WALL,STAIRS, AND TWO DOORS IS FROM THE LORAX WHEN HE ESCAPES!!!!!!
I’m glad you touched on this mate. I recently told a story of an eerie-ass ‘liminal space’ experience I’ve had not too long ago, and yeah… this stuff is the real shit.
DUDE that old as windows wallpaper was exactly what I IMMEDIATELY thought of!!
Freaked me the HELL out as a kid.
Loving the videos bro, Keep it up!
5:58 single powerline. No, that's a telegraph line. We still have them around here. Some are still in use.
for me, liminal spaces feel like somewhere you would wake up in when ure in a coma or something. the constant waiting and not knowing anything from the outside of that space, ure trapped there and its not quite uncomfortable but u just desperatly want to leave
14:14 oh my god, i swear my kindergarden classroom had a reading corner that looked just like this- with the weird steps and everything. the lights were different and I'm certain there wasn't a door there, but I have vivid memories of this
I think that what gets to me the most about these pictures is the color of the sky. Like the one in the picture with three slides and the one in the bus. It's just such a weird shade of blue and I think it gives it more of that dream like vibe.
When you say you want to be an architect, yet really only want to look at liminal spaces.
I don’t really feel nostalgia, and I don’t feel like I’m waiting alone. It feels like someone is watching me
Liminal space is like a space you are very familiar with, but you’ve never seen it without people or lights, and you’re not used to it so it feels weird
Some of those places seem like a nice place to chill out. I've never understood the liminal space thing. It just doesn't do anything time. Some are even relaxing/comforting.
I have to admit it reminds me of the Nintendo 64 for some reason.. Almost like the uncanny valley in terms of digital space. I think that's it, why it's weird for some people. We spent a lot of our youth running around these types of environments except they were games. Now we're older it seems unsettling and nostalgic.
When I was going through serotonin syndrome every smell, touch, noise reminded me of some reality where I’m stuck in that exact place and can’t leave. Like it felt like life had one viewing angle, and I was hit with INTENSE anxiety. Fuck I wish I could explain it..
I think some people who tried Salvia experienced that kind of feeling too. Reading your comment instantly made me think of those stories
Usually some of the main reasons why we find it so unsettling is the lack of people where there usually would be, darkness and being unable to see where something leads, a lot of the times it’s taken at a weird angle or it is very blurry, or maybe it just falls into the uncanny valley.
Around 14:45 - I had a classroom like that in middle school. It was a music room. Bottom left door is probably a teacher’s office, door on the top left is probably storage or a way out of the room to the hallway, and the door on the right looks like a door to the outside (per the EXIT sign - we had one of those in our choir room too.)
The little quips in these videos are so good 😄
Some of these remind me of being in a dream like state, where its familiar but also unreal at the same time.
I totally get the creepy nostalgia thing. Sometimes I will have a sense of familiarity, but a sense of distance, almost like a very early memory or a memory from a past life. It's quite interesting.
That’s red photo of the ups vans is from Oregon! I live in Oregon and this is when we had all the bad fires last year! That’s crazy it ended up on your channel!!!! Lol
I love liminal space. The quietness and emptiness. Had a taste during covid and walking around nighttime in winter. So eerie
Some reason I love the feeling that liminal space and dreamcore(the odd nostalgia) gives me
Especially when sharing it with others
Man, some of these really get me. Especially those with white tiles and office spaces. I used to go to work and college really, REALLY early, to the point where there were some times when I was the only one there, and seeing those places (which are supposed to be full of people) empty, and on top of that, poorly lit because not all lights are turned on yet.... it just gives me some weird vibes.
Also, some of the liminal pictures of malls or game zones in malls with those whacky carpets and colors feel weird yet familiar as well, don't really know why.
All the cgi tile pools just seem so chill to swim in for me idk why 😂. They don’t feel creepy to me just tranquil
14:26 dude, this is a relative's house that I was at once. This is the exact same room I see when I picture that one memory of being there.
The ones that seem to mess with my mind the most are the Highway bridges with the lights that seem to intertwine and intersect but lead to nowhere. Its exactly what I see in my dreams...or the images of tall bridges with a flooded landscape, or the empty dated looking shopping malls...lol gets me every damn time.
Also, You see a lot of liminal space used in Pink Floyd's album art.
I guess that's why some people find it disturbing yet some (like myself) find it comforting.
"Is there anybody...out...there?"
4:20, looks like a place a dogman would be lurking.
That book room, brought back some nightmares that I had as a kid x.x I was fine until that weird library
When I was in lithuania in a sauna, there was this cold pool once you came out of the sauna. It was behind the corner, and for some reason the lights were off, so it was just this very dimly lit corner where there was a round pool (with tiles of course), it was so teriffying
14:22 holy shit that one gave me a physical reaction, I've been to a library EXACTLY like that before
These remind me of my nightmares. Not in any abstract way- but quite litteral. Especially the kids rooms that are so off. In my dreams, I usually crawl through a hole in the wall, gap in the couch, etc. Then I end up in these places, explore them, then chase a Coraline's mom-like monster in order to find- typically my brother, but sometimes my pets or something. The rooms will have a school gym, childrens playroom, empty, lonly, nostalgic feeling to them. They have incredibly tall ceilings, walls are usually white or cream painted brick, tile, or painted drywall. They have kids toys, a run-down factor, and low lighting. I'm usually alone or with just a friend or sibling. It's creepy and off. The stairs are weird shapes, some rooms use jungle gyms, spiral staircases, or kids toys to get from one level to another. The toys are often bright and colorful, everything looks neat and clean, and it smells like cleaner or hand sanitizer... I genuinely don't know how to describe it better than this...
“why is there so many flooded subways” *gets subway ad right after*
@14:40: Here in Canada, where there can be huge social-cultural differences between the English and French parts of the country; esthetic tastes are one of them. That image looks just like any public space aimed at kids at either a French community center or school.
@15:45: That roughly says "no backflipping" (or lit. "no springing in backwards").
I tend to fear or avoid liminal space photos, because of my chronic vivid nightmares. As a kid before I ever even knew these things, or used the internet everyday, these liminal spaces made up a lot of major locations in my nightmares. Every once in awhile, those exact places return to me in my sleep.
The train scene from spirited away gives me that sad nostalgia feeling. I've never been able to explain it.
17:16
I’ve seen rooms that look like this and it’s so unsettling walking past them
The fake ones look like alternative album covers, like the pink building with the pool looks like a Glass Animals cover and the stairs half submerged in water looks like a Radiohead one
Wow! I never saw anything about liminal spaces before, but some of these really would make me feel in danger if i were to find myself there in real life... especially the empty staircases, corridors with dark hallways and pitch black entrance points...
It makes me feel like something might be hiding just around the corner and gives me the feeling of being stalked at all times. Also the fear doubles if the ceelings are higher than necessary.
Great! Seems I'm afraid of liminal spaces...
i’ve always defined liminal space as the uncanny valley for places. it looks fake and feels real.
That 2004 apartment is IDENTICAL to the one i lived in with my mom around age 9. Crazy how exact it is!