Liminal Spaces (Exploring an Altered Reality)

In hindsight I probably should've been more selective of the images I showed in this video. Some people seem to be confusing them for just creepy/nostalgic images when it's more about transitional spaces. I think I hinted at that but I should have made it more clear. For example the bunker house I mentioned would not really fit in this category but more in the uncanny/eerie category. Liminal spaces can definitely include most of the spaces shown in this video but I need to make clear that they are not exclusively those types of creepy, nostalgic, or out of their designed context spaces.
Regardless, there is an emphasis on “transitional” and that should really be the greatest factor in determining what is and isn’t a liminal space. This is just a short addendum for anyone confused.

A vast majority of these images were taken from a subreddit called r/Liminal Spaces if ya want to check them out.
Music: The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Windows 96 - Bonita Camisa, Yume Nikki, Silent Hill, C418 - Chirp, Majora's Mask - Last Day, Boards of Canada - Roygbiv (Cover by Pece)

Credits:

[jasslang]

I feel like they are like corpses. They used to be filled with life, movement, and potential. Now they are just a dead body left behind as the life moves on.

[frugalbiscuit]

I died when he said it was the background for a lego set.

[theaterpsycho]

These photos make me feel like I was left behind in an evacuation. Everyone is gone, only for me to still be here in places I shouldn’t. I was abandoned and while I may explore, I don’t want to.

[LeoTheMonts]

"I'm Thinking of Ending Things" is a film that uses liminal spaces like empty schools, convenience stores at night, and childhood homes to great unsettling atmospheric effect.

[coda]

does anyone remember when you got to school, and some of the lights weren't on yet?

[alxndra]

It makes you feel like you shouldn't be there. No one/nothing else is there, so why are you? It's empty for a reason

[SadBlueGirl]

“The Last man on earth is sitting alone in his house. There’s a knock on the door”

Gives off similar vibes to these pictures for me

[gabr]

17:34 it's great to see a once unpopular unrecognized photo like this being used in your video. I was recently watching a Wendigoon stream in which him, Kane Pixels, and Alex Kister were watching different analog horrors. When Kane said "he got the image of the rolling giant from a Solar Sands video". I think it's cool that I was able to find this out and see how other creators can influence eachother.

[thatsmallcessna]

A liminal space that really creeps me out is when you stop at a stoplight in the middle of the night. Nobody is there except you, it's very quiet. However, the lights keep cycling as if they're pretending the intersection is still busy.

[errorx_x]

Empty Multiplayer maps have this feeling too.

[ghdhfgh]

As long as I'm not in fullscreen, nothing can hurt me

[noone_]

liminal spaces actually give me a rather librating and relaxed feeling. free from peoples jugments and the worries of the world. u got nothing to do but to look at the space, explore it and play in it

[_oceanstar]

it's like ruins if they were in perfect condition. Unsettling and lonely.

[maixl]

The Spongebob episode where he misses the last bus is a liminal space

[beatmasterbossy]

You know when you have a dream and you're in your house, but it isn't your house, but it is?

[mazzyna]

That intro to liminal spaces was so clever! I would’ve never thought to connect liminal spaces with something like Lego background package design lol

[koifrog]

I think this concept is why The Shining is so creepy; it’s a hotel that should have lots of people living in it, but it’s completely empty.

[emerald]

I think a lot of this "strange familiarity" comes from how many things in our lives are generic and mass-produced. School hallways all look alike because they're built with the exact same linoleum floors, painted cinderblock walls, and drop ceilings with flourescent lights. Fast food places have standardized architecture to make them instantly recognizable. And many houses (particularly those built in the last century) are cookie-cutter copies of a standard plan used by the neighborhood's developers to streamline construction. These places have no identity of their own, but we've all seen something exactly like them at some point in the past, so they look familiar yet unfamiliar at the same time.

[desromic]

When I was a kid, my dad and I went to see a movie, but everyone's tickets were printed with the wrong theatre number, and it turned out the theatre number was in a part of the building that was being renovated. So me, my dad, and about 20 people sat in this small half-finished theatre with insulation and wires hanging out of the ceiling, torn up carpet, and nasty seats. It looked like a cold war bomb shelter. We were early for the showing, so we expected to sit for a good 20 minutes, but it was a total of 40 minutes that we sat there before we figured out something was wrong, feeling weirdly out of place like we're the last people in existence. I half expected to walk out and the whole city would be abandoned.

[themisfitowl]

I worked at a major theme park, Universal Orlando, and I had the privilege of being able to see the park almost totally empty at times. Walking into the park in early morning or late at night was always fascinating to me, I loved the peacefulness. Quiet empty paths, rides moving in their cycles without riders to fill them, no one standing in the queue lines, clear music wafting through the air. Such a stark contrast to the impossibly busy times when guests would crowd up the lines, stampede down the walkways and fill up the air with voices.