The True Meaning Of Liminal Spaces

Liminal spaces are the places in our world where reality feels altered. But why does it feel this way? What is the true meaning of liminality? In this video we take a deep dive into liminal spaces and understand why things are liminal.

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🎵Music (in order of appearance):
Earthbound- Otherworldly Foe
Acetantina - Foot Cramp
Acetantina - Temple of Null
Yume 2kki OST - Abandoned Apartments (Lower Apartments)
Broken Reality OST - Catcoin exterior
Acetantina - Body Parts
Aquazone BGM Track03
Art of Balance Wii U - World F Music
Ape Escape 3 OST - Bootown (Part 2)
Yume Nikki OST - Candle World
Earthbound - 13 Hidden Track
AMONG US - OST - MAIN THEME SONG [HQ]
Super Mario 64 - Merry-Go-Round
EarthBound - The Place [HQ]
Sonic CD (USA) Music Boss
Acetantina - Gunk
Silent Hill OST - Down Time
Soup 0.9 - don09
Yume 2kki OST -Cosmic World
Soup 0.9 - sup01
LSD Dream Emulator Music Kyoto - Ambient - B
Spore Galactic Adventures Soundtrack - Echoes Underwater
Undertale OST - But nobody came.
Yume 2kki OST - Realistic Cave
Hypno K.K. (Aircheck) - Animal Crossing New Leaf Music
Soup 0.9 - rua03
Ape Escape 3 OST - Miracle Ninja
Subnautica Soundtrack - River Spooks
OMORI OST - 132 Fleur
EarthBound - A Flash of Memory [HQ]
Yume Nikki OST - Abandoned Desert Town
Earthbound - Giygas Intro
Soup 0.9 - Tar02
Yume Nikki OST - Rooftop Rhythm
LSD Dream Emulator Music - Bright Moon Cottage - Ambient - A
Yume Nikki OST - Subway Station
Soup 0.9 - tar01
Yume Nikki OST - Block World
Fortnite - Original Main Menu Music [Theme OST VGM Soundtrack] (Old-10Min Edition)
Broken Reality - Domo Paradisso Theme
Yume Nikki OST - Musical Tiles World
LSD Dream Emulator Music - Bright Moon Cottage - Ambient - A
Soup 0.9 - don04
Soup 0.9 - rua02
C418 - Chirp (Minecraft Volume Beta)
Earthbound- Battle Against a Weird Opponent
OMORI OST - 021 Sugar Star Planetarium
Yume 2kki OST - Forest
Space Funeral - RPG2000 BGM (Menu Theme)
Super Mario 64 - Haunted House
#0 shell - Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion [OST]
Yume Nikki OST - Entering the Dream World
Ape Escape 3 OST - Fantasy Knight
Ape Escape 3 OST - Super Monkey Throw Stadium

Table of Contents:
0:00 Intro
0:47 Finding a Definition
2:38 The Feeling of Liminality
4:40 Emptiness
5:02 Conditions
5:33 No Exits
6:08 Loss of the Intended Purpose
6:59 No Purpose At All
8:39 Altered Reality
10:08 Dreams
10:39 Nostalgia
11:34 The True Meaning of Liminal Spaces
11:58 Outro
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[dazcarrr]

this series of explaining and analysing weird internet aesthetics/ image archetypes is really great, would love to see more

[CGMushrom]

if you've ever just gone a day without sleeping then went outside, you know exactly how liminal that feels

[Djentie]

7:05 been there it's a myrtle beach hotel in South Carolina. The reason the windows are blacked out is because it's the bedroom windows.

[octokw]

I know this comment does not have enough money for what you deserve for explaining those images and phenomenons in magnificent ways.
I'm going to say words in this message/comment and I have more words to say but I dont have them in my head right now. Idk if i cannot edit my comment later if possible I don't know how donation comments work.

Anyways..
My friend you deserve the entire world and more for explaining those pictures in such a sweet harmonic video it was so lovely to view and watch and as soon as you got into the third little section in your video I immediately subscribed I was taken with awe by how simple you made these things seem to people. I can just send this video in my friends and me not knowing how to describe a liminal space, now they can finally understand it clearly and they can understand my cravings because of your excellence.
You are truly a magnificent human being and you deserve more than 5 fucking dollars my stupid ass is broke thru google pay or i would give you more and more and more ❤❤❤❤

Thank you from the bottom to the top of my head toes heart feet and soul you are actually wonderful and I litterally cant thank you enough
You truly made me feel emotion like no other Video ever could here on YouTube. You put the audio with pictures you put sounds I know and love in the creepy things and wonderful blissful nostalgic things and for that my friend you deserve 1000 million trillion stars not just 5

Liminal spaces are my life, if i go back on google maps back to 2009 oh the wonder and excitement i get from seeing those wonderful coloresque grainy vr type photos oh its so lovely

I'm not kidding if somebody asked me if I would rather live in this real world or be trapped in the backrooms, i would say the backrooms without a beat. Yes my family and friends would maybe miss me and maybe just fall out but i dont care. I love the thought of the danger, the nostalgia, the freedom. Soak in the digital windows xp oxygen.
Gander at the endless hallways leading to nowhere and nowhere and nowhere. Imagine if there was something chasing you
Like a life or death tag oooh yummy

Anyway my point is your video is great and i am now your #1 fan and supporter and i just saw at the end of the video that you have a weirdcore analysis so ima check that shit out w glee next.
Thank you kind person, i forgot your name but youre fucking awesome :)

[ihearttoast]

Liminal spaces is *the* best aesthetic I've ever seen, and without exaggeration. I swear it's like somebody screenshotted a part of my dream, or a deep obscure, distant memory in my head. I love it. And im glad youre giving it attention, your videos are entertaining on this stuff and the sound/music match the images perfectly

[Killerkraft]

I live in UK and most places don't seem liminal no matter where you would be. I went on vacation to america and everything felt so surreal and odd. It triggered alot of liminal space feelings because of how larger and spacous everything is.

[RelicQuadrangle]

The creepiest, yet most calming ones are the ones that look like a pool, but with stairs or doorways to go through.
Also, liminal spaces can make us both uncomfortable and super comfortable. For someone who is more introverted, I feel like the fact that nobody is there comforts them. And for extroverts, I feel like because nobody's there they feel uneasy, as if something could get them, because they are not in a group. They don't have someone who could protect them. It could be both. I don't even know what the ambiverts are thinking when they watch this.

[rogeraydin]

For me, this is the best explanation/analysis on liminal spaces out there, because it manages to break down and explain both the physical and mental/emotional elements that make up all parts of the aesthetic as a whole very clearly, and also succeeds in explaining that the liminal spaces aesthetic is one of those things that just hits a bit differently for everyone.

[YYangles]

I'm really enjoying this series about weird internet aesthetics, It's entertaining and imformative. Keep up the good work pongo donute

[sttubz]

I remember as a kid when I’d used to walk to my friend’s house in the early morning hours before school, before the sun had come up and it was still really dark outside. I lived in a smaller town and no one was outside at that time (usually), so it was always so quiet. And most of the houses and small streets I’d walk by were dark with only a small orangey colored street light on the corner.

I used to get the most surreal feelings at those times. Now when I watch your video, I realize I walked and lived in a liminal space. It always felt different at night compared to the day, sometimes creepy, but always so peaceful. I still have dreams to this day of that small town and my old house…

[TheRealAspect]

Hearing Polygon Donut talk about the Backrooms has completed my life.

[PastelOddity]

Not even joking, this video has become one of my comfort videos and I've watched it several times now. The way you explain things, the sound design, the visuals: top teir.

[DaverTheDave]

i love the audio design for this, and learning something more about this part of the internet is really interesting. I haven't really done any research to liminal spaces so it's nice to see it put into a small 12 minute video.
It's really cool to see you making videos about topics you clearly like, keep it up!!

[grimms]

I appreciate the fact that you address just how hard it is to define liminal spaces/images. To me, they feel one of two ways. One you touched on, which is stuck. Stuck between what was and what will be, stuck in a perpetual present. You pass through that present when you pass through the space, but sticking around makes you feel stuck yourself. An deeply unsettling feeling, but one that passes once you leave.

The other feeling is one I called shared memory. It can be summed up with the phrase "this memory belongs to everyone." Some liminal spaces (and most of my favorites) can elicit memories that most people can relate to. A secional couch in a downstairs living room, pointed towards a tube tv playing spongebob. A school library after dark. A now empty blockbuster building. These spaces drip with surreal familiarity that so many people can recall, even if they've never been there before, especially if that space represents a transitional period of time. That sense of "I know this place, but Ive never been here" elicits such a unique feeling of longing, but sometimes a paradoxical dread that makes you want to get away or stop looking, but at the same time makes you stay put.

One of my all time favorite liminal images hits this sharee memory and longing dread incredibly hard. Its a meadow surrounded by tree covered hills on a dark, overcast day. The image quality is low, af if taken on an early 2000s picture phone. Every time I look at it, I feel an intense desire to go there, but a simultanious inexplicable dread

[homiebreadpill]

i love polygon donut's videos on weirdcore/dreamcore images. his voice just fits so much?

[abonzabay]

I love the way you explain these aesthetics. I'm tryna make my own weirdcore/liminal art and these videos rly help me understand how to make my art feel uncanny

[vizzysfizzys]

Ayo polygon, just wanted to say your videos an editing keep getting better and better! Honestly I love this so much! :)

[dinowaffles]

10:41 this photo and this photo 10:45 are extremely nostalgic to me! The first one reminds me of my preschool days and visits to this church my aunt went. I’d frequently play with the kids there.
The second one is whimsically nostalgic. A hazy memory. Reminds me of the days before any of my preschool days. The days where I’d lounge around with my Pappie on a hot summer day with a fan, eating sausage and bacon, playing Leapfrog games on a box TV in my room. The days where my Pap would drive me up to my dad’s to stay in which my dad would play Kiss songs nonstop; especially “Shandi” because he named me after it :D and the days when I’d be in our living room watching TV before bed.. probably some time in the late 2000s. My god.. I miss it so much.

It also reminds of when I’d be taken to my other Grandpa’s house (he was my grandma’s ex) with my Pap and Gram to sit as they fixed things over there. I’d just chill in the living room and it looked just like that image! And y’know what? I bet the house in that image smells just like cigar smoke just as that house did.

[thefogitself]

I used to be horrified of liminal spaces but now they seem more interesting and less eerie, but still feel like something’s off.

[mozhgandadashi]

i know this is off topic but 11:28 is SPLATOON MUSICCC!!! btw i really like how you explained the liminal spaces i been trying to look for this kind of videos !!! tysm new subscriber C: