I Long for Liminal Spaces

Why are we so drawn to places that do not exist? From childhood basements to endless hallways, this video explores the places we cannot.

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[PastelOddity]

I’ve been SEARCHING for more liminal space content that actually dives into what they’re about and less “creepy Backrooms har har har”, so so far: thank you.

[ScrimmyBingus]

Tbh liminal spaces never really scared me. I find them incredibly comforting in a weird, melancholic way

[AsbakwTheSage]

“I long for liminal spaces”

Me too brother, me too

[IrishMorgenstern]

I always loved liminal spaces. Then I also became a night worker at a gas station, then moved onto a hotel. It is an environment that can make or break people. It's not the night hours, it's being alone that seems to really bother people.

[binkbonkbones]

When I was three years old my mom took my sister's and I to a pool party for my cousin

All I remember from this trip was breaking down hysterically because I had suddenly found myself completely alone in an empty room of shallow warm water with a ceramic dolphin at the center

As I started to cry desperately for someone I knew or any of the people I had thought I was with previously eventually my bigger sister ran up to me picked me up and asked where I had wandered off to.

I had never done anything more than turn in a circle

I feel like there may be more to the backrooms lore now

[jayl]

Anemoia is the feeling if nostalgia for a time/ and or place you've never been to. This is what the liminal spaces seem to evoke in a lot of people.

[Luna_Knight_vods]

I just want to get lost in a forest, fog so dense i cant see more than 20 feet around me, with it raining. My ideal liminal space right there

[attackfrogs]

every time basements are brought up as an "innate childhood experience" i always feel cheated by having grown up in louisiana. we don't have basements here because sea level reasons, alas 😔

[animatronicentertainmentdude]

The grain of the liminal photos remind me of when you just woke up and your vision is blurry. It’s like when I used to fall asleep in the car, and would wake up and try to figure out my surroundings.

[owloko]

I love Liminal Spaces, the eerie feeling familiarity of this place i don't know. I love this kind of terror, not a momentary jump scare, but the growing uneasiness

[マシュードーラン]

I think with constant traffic, the over-population of human beings and the fact that you can’t go anywhere without human interaction makes liminal spaces so intriguing and beautiful

I take walks at 1 or 2 in the morning around my old neighborhood and there’s no cars, no humans, just me and the environment. It’s so special and always soothing and like you’re the only existing person

[victorpeterson]

I think part of the reason why liminal spaces are so creepy is (not just the nostalgia) but also that it takes away everything safe and comforting about a room. There’s no people there, so we can’t get help or comfort from them, there’s no furniture, so we can’t sit down on a comfy sofa and every single exit is removed, so we can’t escape and doomed to wander these endless spaces for all eternity. And just to add salt to the wound, in the Backrooms, there’s also creepy creatures wandering around, trying to kill you and eat your brains. But again, that’s just part of what makes it so effective as a horror genre.

[YetAnotherGeorgeth]

“You played minecraft as a kid”

Don’t make me feel old, i was 25 when I first played minecraft when it was beta 1.7.1!

[RigepFroggit]

I am a commercial driver which means I'm often out working during hours when everybody else is asleep and most everywhere is closed and empty. I see liminal spaces all the time, and it's comforting to me not horrifying.

[PiggieMom]

I spent the first 10 years of my life in a suburb of Detroit where a majority of the houses were built in the late 1940s to early 1960s and were of similar design. We moved when I was 10 to the other side of the state where each house was very different. Sometimes, I go on real estate listings to look at houses in my old hometown, and it is such a surreal feeling. I know the tile in those basements. What it feels like. What it sounds like when it cracks. I know those bathrooms and closets.

[Bkesal]

This is great! One of the reasons I love hotels is that if you walk around the endless halls at night, there's this overwhelming liminality like you're separated from your real life.

[BillyTheKidOfficialYT]

I’ll die on this hill I think nostalgia plays the biggest factor in liminal spaces. Yes “lack of people 🙄” and “emptiness of the room 🙄”so on and so forth. But I can’t drill this in enough I swear it has to do with 2000s architecture and nostalgia the most. Which, makes them even more interesting to me. Each liminal space photo I see I can almost associate a year with it. Ex: 2004, 2002, 2005, etc. In conclusion - I think we need to start deep diving more into 2000s architecture and the effects it has on your subconscious that make these spaces feel THIS heavy for us.

[claracarrion]

i have an obsession with video essays about liminal spaces, that fundamentally understand the concept behind them and analyze the feeling they provoke in people. It´s one of my favorite topics of disscussion, but i don´t have anybody to talk to about it. So whenever i encounter these videos i feel understood. There are so many people out there that think endlessly about these random internet niches just like i do, and i love finding them. Thank you for sharing your thoughts:)

[PawlH]

You’ve got a gift for putting these impossibly abstract thoughts and feelings into words that somehow completely hit the nail on the head. Glad I found your channel man!

[bramblechaser]

Some of the most chilling memories are that of these little spaces. To the point where you don’t know if it’s memories or dreams you had when you were young. For example my grandmother‘s house is a important place for me specially when I was a kid. I have vague memories of sitting on the floor in warm light. Everything is bigger than you. I remember being afraid in a weird way during these times. Like I remember it being around Christmas. So many things you don’t understand. but the scenes are like the memory is like darkened around the edges. Whether that be how your brain processes your surroundings as a child or if it’s weird dreams but you have as a kid. It’s both terrifying and comforting. It’s so hard to explain and get you some manage to do so well. This video is really well-made.