Liminal Spaces: A Theory Concerning Our Existence

What can Liminal Spaces, these seemingly altered realities, teach us about Reality itself? In this video, I explore what Philosophy has to say about the feeling that Liminal Spaces instill in us. This was INSANE, and took me MONTHS to plan, edit, and produce. What can altered realities teach us about the world, and our place in it?

List of Books Referenced In This Video:
- An Introduction to Transcendental Phenomenology by Edmund Husserl
- Being and Time, by Martin Heidegger
- Building, Dwelling, Thinking by Martin Heidegger
- What is Metaphysics? by Martin Heidegger
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
- The Questioning Concerning Technology by Martin Heidegger
- Nausea by Jean-paul Sartre
- On The Psychology of the Uncanny by Ernst Jentsch
- The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud
- Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost

Other Related Works:
-House of Leaves
-Langoliers
-Ugly, The Aesthetics of Everything

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
4:11 Chapter 2: No Exit
8:06 Chapter 3: The Infinite
12:31 Chapter 4: The Uncanny
20:39 Chapter 5: The Nothing

Music:
The End - C418
Just A Burning Memory (from Everywhere At the End of Time) - The Caretaker
Imposter Win from Among Us
Late Night in Ninsei - Abomindable Beat Machine
Fallout 1 OST
Fnaf 4 Menu Theme
Half-Life 2 OST
Windows 96 - Bonita Camisa
Yume Nikki OST
Mario Paint

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[ClarkElieson]

"I have been one acquainted with the night."

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[weirdboo]

Existence is the weirdest rabbit hole, it’s such a dumb fact that everyone accepts, but the more you dive into it, the more your brain unravels lmao. Great video!

[kaysbunn]

“Please don’t watch this at night” me sitting here in the dark at 2am

[Luschan]

I read an interesting theory that our aversion to “liminal spaces” is a survival instinct. For animals, if a normally busy and safe area is deserted, it means that something bad or dangerous is happening.
Who knows, though. It’s interesting that this is a universal feeling everyone gets.

[victordauphin]

Used to be a high school night shift janitor. Schools with nobody in them at night are liminal af. So is the factory I work at once I'm the last one there and half the lights are off.

[samizdatbroadcasts]

I find liminal spaces absolutely fascinating. Almost to the point of hypnotizing, actually.

[roniporter]

If you look at birth being the start of your journey and death being you final destination then life becomes a liminal space with seemingly no escape. Which perpetuates the feeling of unease we get when thinking about life or death because of the the fear of the unknown.

I'm not sure if that was the intended undertone of the content but that's what I got from it.
This video is amazing and has so many layers that could be peeled back and explored.

[instagamrr]

I absolutely love and adore the eerie feeling of liminal spaces. I’ve often wished for a video game that was nothing but a liminal space to walk around and explore for hours

[MrBaseballfan]

“Moments frozen in time” are perhaps the most comforting things for me. I have a hard time accepting that things change but finding places that are untouched by time bring me relief. This also plays into my fascination with abandoned cities.

[Tsuki]

"If this walls could talk, they would say nothing" lmao.

[kimwelch]

When I was in college, I used to work in a large shopping mall. May favorite space in the whole mall was the back service corridors that ran behind all the shops. Long poorly lit grey halls that curved and turned so you could never see the end. It was rare to actually run into anyone there, and it was quite literally liminal space. I would spend any extra time before and after work just walking the length of them to enjoy it and soak in the darkness.

[allenrogalski]

Not related but related: Working as a DJ, one of my most uncanny feelings is when a big nightclub is just opening for the evening - music is blasting and disco lights are flashing, but no one is there yet. It's like a huge production for no one. It always makes me feel oddly philosophical, like "who is this for?" That "who is this for" feels like a 5th part of the definition of liminal space angst. Why are the lights on if this place is empty? Why is a fountain on in the middle of the night? Why is someone keeping the place clean?

[CrowClouds]

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

[daisyviluck]

This is what working the overnight shift feels like. It’s not scary at all, it’s quiet and contemplative.

[conniehankosky]

Is it strange that I’m actually comforted by liminal spaces? I often fantasize about being alone in the world, just so I could explore the empty city I live in without any restrictions. So I could go back to places in my past where so much of my life happened, and yet I can’t go back ever again. The idea that liminal spaces are nothing itself is very interesting to me, because I never knew why I wanted to do that to myself. It would drive me insane, literally, but now I have a theory. I think it’s because being in nothing reminds me that I exist. I’ve gotten this feeling lately that as I grow older, I’m getting further away from home. Everything in my childhood was the ultimate familier, and as time has changed, so has the world become less and less familier to me. Maybe I want to be in those places because they’re as close to familier for me as anything could be at this point. That’s sad isn’t it? That the world is so uncomfortable to me now that these liminal spaces offer more belonging to me. Idk I’m just speaking off the cuff here.

[julietbarreras]

I used to be a huge pothead and when I quit smoking everything looked like those liminal space photos, like I was generally more aware of my surroundings.

[amberquartz]

if you guys are a fan of liminal spaces i'd recommend steven kings "the langoliers" its where this group of people wake up on a plane and they become literally stuck in the past and they're the only ones left

[kaspark]

As someone who's been mentally and physically sick for a long time it is calming for me as it reminds me of all those nights I've been awake at night, wondering around, and feeling happy as now it is my turn to enjoy everything that exists. As day is too much, night is calm and perfect.

[PootNewt]

My introduction to liminal spaces? Squidward when he was alone and ended up desperately looking for a way out once he was consumed with what he oh so wanted.

[cakeasaverb]

This raises some concerns about purposefully created spaces that inspire dread as a tool to augment the perception of reality and a tool to manipulate emotion. In the same vein that public housing projects. Prisons and schools have similar designs. Is this a form of social engineering? Excellent video! Very thought provoking and well done