A Journey Through Surreal Worlds

[@theRPGmaster]

Since I was a kid, I've been drawn to "liminal spaces", of course, that term wasn't used back then. But I've always known, it's a feeling, and I will always enjoy it. Places I've seen in my dreams, seemingly unprompted, dreams I never wanted to wake up from. Thank you for capturing it. That's why I follow this channel.

[@loadupthejaj3809]

I always thought that whenever we dreamed of nature, we never questioned the surreal and random aspects of the worlds around us due to how unorganized nature is in real life. Whenever we dream of manmade structures, however, we automatically try to recognize uniformity and purpose in those structures, but in our dreams, we just can't do that. Something about these structures will always have something off because our brains will always try to give it the random aspects nature is naturally given.

[@magma_fire_bagwan]

Plus these buildings and such are part of nature to a lot of us. Not jungle-y nature, but that they are natural in our everyday environment. So perhaps that's why we add more nature-y elements to them?

[@thelelanatorlol3978]

Brains aren't powerful enough nor consistent enough to define and project rigid objects like you'll see coming from graphics computers. It's just the brain hallucinating what it thinks the world looks like to the best of its ability.

[@Compwnter]

Was always pretty upset that the whole "Liminal Space" trend died down but that's how the internet goes with all trends. Thanks for making this video! I'm glad that one of my favorite KZbinrs made a video about this regardless of the fact that its been a good while since the trend was popular 😃

[@nFyrin]

I think it's good that the trend is dying because it can return to being a niche topic.

[@theRPGmaster]

I liked the aesthetic, the visuals, the feeling, way before that. Mostly in real life, back when it wasn't on the internet. I probably will still have a strange obsession with it until I die. Don't be too concerned with trends. Although I'm very glad to know other people resonate with the concept. Strangely many, it seems like.

[@griefer5846]

its not dead

[@Geospasmic]

​@@theRPGmastercouldn't have said it better. It will always be ours.

[@CRACKBONE7317]

​@@nFyrinFor shizzle, man. The more niche a topic is, the more genuine it remains.

[@Clarkweber1815]

You covered everything from classical impressionist artists to modern weird core. I’m blown away and will always tune into to your videos.

[@dharkbizkit]

i just found this channel a few days ago and iam in love with it. i cant put my finger on the why, but watching these videos, calms me down and puts me in a certain state. maybe its the silent hill esque music, but watching these videos puts me back into a mood and feelings, that i last felt when i was 22/23 years old, late at night, on weekends, when work was done, i had the weekend off and browsed through youtube, 4chan, css mod pages etc..i was very much into conspiracy theories back then and watched alot of docus about it. iam 38 now and glad to have found this, tho i gotta be honest here, i wish i could go back to that time. for me and in my pov, everything was better in 2008 for me, compared to all the years that came after

[@andrewkin1564]

How does this man not have 10 times the subscribers, I am absolutely stunned

[@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss]

If he posted feet content he’d get 10x more followers

[@一一一一一一一一一一]

He will definitely get the recognition he deserves soon

[@unethicallyvoid2888]

@@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqssmy brother that is horrendous.

[@Phlaigh]

He's about to just you wait

[@shellyzzz6440]

Cause he wanna be Nexpo so baaaad

[@shadw4701]

I think more people should draw and paint their dreams honestly

[@Poodleinacan]

The x-rated, violent and just the weird surreal dreams?

[@reizosaurus6434]

ı draw creatures ı see in my dreams

[@yotsuyuyagiyama2443]

My AP art portfolio was on my dreams! I only got a 3 (lowest passing grade) but I also rushed everything and procrastinated a lot 😅

[@Wulk]

How TF do I draw incomprehensible things?

[@GobbleGobbleMyObbles]

Maybe take the most memorable parts ​@@Wulk

[@elevatormusical]

Dude I’m here obviously, but you’re on the cusp of absolutely popping off, keep up this crazy work. You’re doing excellent!

[@VirtualCarbon]

Means a lot

[@zs9652]

This is a beautiful video. You are a great video essayist. I would even say artist.

[@VirtualCarbon]

Thank you!

[@toastcrunch8479]

(english is not my first language so excuse the nonsensical sentence) Your videos are some of the most high quality i’ve seen on youtube in a while and they are very interesting and entertaining. it is clear how much effort you put into making each one of them, please continue to make great content!

[@nangsanbhalangblah333]

Nah you sound fine. I sometimes want these "English not my first language uwu" type comments to be followed by the worst alphabet diarrhea to really put the warning in effect, just for a laugh.

[@Void-ez2it]

That's better english than many english speakers I've seen online before, lol.

[@thetachyonhivemind]

This channel blows my mind every single video

[@Purplesome_]

How have you watched the whole video a minute after it came out

[@thetachyonhivemind]

@@Purplesome_ I watch the video at normal speed, but you know how you get chill when something resonates with you or feels really good? The opening 10 seconds of every single video of his gives me those chills, and the full video always lives up to those first impressions

[@theRPGmaster]

@@thetachyonhivemind I know exactly what you mean. Yeah, this channel is great. Really on-point.

[@Lappland.Saluzzo]

I think the rise of the core series of aesthetics in general is a new rise of Surrealism in the shape of art world mixing in the real world with the world of the Internet and the masses of many different worlds from all kinds of people

[@milagrosalfonso2501]

I noticed that the core subgenre is related to surrealism just as how electro swing is to jazz.

[@caringheart34]

Surrealism is as still popular today: -Luis Buñuel's surrealist films, Rose Hobart, Maya Deren's dreamlike films, David Lynch films, Charlie Kaufman films, and other surrealist filmmakers (Ari Aster, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Fernando Arrabal and Wojciech Has) are still studied, reevaluated by film critics and film students alike too today, incorporating some of their ideas for the modern day avant-garde -It influenced to an extent Magic Realism, Postmodernism, Absurdist Art, and any Psychological art which are still popular today -When the Wild West of the Internet was still in force, theres a lot more surrealist art due to the low regulstory rules that enforces the Internet (YTPs which has fizzled iut due to copyright, Animutations by Neil Cicieriega, all the creepy videos that scared the early Gen-Z like Obey the Walrus, and stuff like that) -Postmodernism which has been greatly influenced by the Surrealists is the dominant worldview from the early 60s to the current era, influencing everything we know. -60s counterculture and their psychedelic art movement is inspired by Surrealist art. -Dali and Magritte being popular around their own social circles -Surreal humor whos precursors are Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, mixing with the popular nonsense fantasy writers like Roald Dahl and Dr. Seuss have influenced 21st century humor -Vaporwave uses surrealist and nostalgic art to criticize consumerism -The avant-garde today is basically half-experimental with surreal elements, and half-surrealism with realistic elements in the style of maybe David Lynch or other popular film directors. -Psychological films today (Psychological thriller, horror, drama) has basically mildly surreal elements -Acceptance of indie surrealist movies into mainstream media -Basically the culture of the 2010s and 2020s trying to be as absurd and surreal as possible as a form of escapism.

[@shadw4701]

Dreams are highly underrated and people should actually start paying attention to them

[@rayanderson5797]

Some of my best writings started with dreams.

[@bread_bear7878]

@@rayanderson5797 echo and the bunnymen's "the killing moon" comes to mind

[@no_name4889]

dreams fascinate me so much. I think of them very often and sometimes get excited to go sleep so I could see where I will appear next. I often think they are much more than just something imagined by your mind but instead a whole world which is only connected to ours through or unconcious mind. Also took some drugs in the past that really reminded me of dreaming, like it was trying to replicate what dreaming feels like but not quite there. i think there are so many worlds that we are only aware of when asleep

[@theRPGmaster]

Taking L-Tryptophan made my dreams a lot more vivid, induced some lucid dreams. It wasn't even intentional, I think it was included in a mild, over-the-counter sleep aid. Anyway, I've had some unforgettable dreams over the years. Just feelings, rarely anything concrete at all. I always wish I could remember more. It seems the concept of "liminality" and dreams are connected. Probably some nostalgia as well. But I've always been drawn to that feeling. I remember at one point when I was younger I had the strange urge to stay in a certain hallway, its architecture, design, could be described as "liminal" nowadays. I thought I was weird at the time. Does this make sense to anyone else?

[@griefer5846]

@@no_name4889try lucid dreaming

[@Faketreno]

man, i really love your videos, the are relaxing and comfortable, keep it up bro 🖤

[@VirtualCarbon]

❤️

[@stray3]

Hey, just wanted to say that your channel is so reminiscent of Nexpo's style of content and I genuinely love that. I look forward to your channel becoming big my guy.

[@Pickle_Panther]

I just found your channel and have been binging your videos while I'm home with the flu. Love your content and I hope you keep making more!

[@kart1648]

I think creating videos like this is also itself some form of an art, I'd call you a great artist in that sense!

[@LoL-tv8ym]

Yooo. I think your channel finally got some hype. You were in 4 k subs when I subbed.

[@Stargazer-is6ok]

This video made me realize why dreamcore and weirdcore aesthetics is so popular today: as you said, 2000s were times of excitement about the future. Today this excitement turned into a fear. Dreamcore and weirdcore are something more, than just nostalgia: these images are windows to a world, that never actually existed, but feels familiar

[@Kyrgizion]

That 4-eyed cat in the weirdcore section is just Nick Nocturne from the Night Mind channel. 's all good.

[@magma_fire_bagwan]

Lmao

[@BLANKSecretBLANK]

the end of this video actually made me feel really nostalgic for the early days of SecondLife and all the various art installations people made and still make there. i haven't logged in for a while. i think i'll go visit today.

[@uncle_mitch]

Love the way you narrate these videos. Keep it up!

[@lilithrey3936]

7:28 you made me fine my new favorite artist! Thank you so much! 🥰🖤

[@magma_fire_bagwan]

Excellently presented! Keep up the fantastic work dude

[@AndyJP]

I've been watching your videos the past few days and I just wanted to say it's some of the best written, best produced, and most well-researched videos on youtube. Thank you for putting in so much work!

[@BestoFriendoCassidy]

LETS FUCKING GO. I've loved your content bro and i'm always excited on an upload. When I first watched one, I knew you'd blow up! Deserved.

[@sketchywav7741]

Anyone watching this channel before it inevitably blows up is a certified og fan/sub

[@magma_fire_bagwan]

Real

[@Crypto1percenter]

Most of the liminal spaces look like like my dreams and make me feel at ease, Id love to be there!

[@theRPGmaster]

Same here. I've said it many times, but it's nice to finally know other people feel the same way. It wasn't popular back when I first recognized it, I thought I was alone.

[@ladybugd0ts]

found your channel yesterday, and i love your stuff so much already!!!

[@cesarguerrasantos343]

I really enjoy your videos, keep up the great work you are doing greetings from Chile

[@sofia_g23]

Perhaps all these worlds exist in a different realm. Some felt familiar...maybe seen in a dream or meditation. Thanks for another escape!

[@BrassPetals3Voices]

You’re killin’ it! Quality content presented really well. Already looking forward to the next!

[@AgamPratapsingh-kn2db]

Love your work man, first time seeing your videos❤

[@deadpan5360]

Im in the comments to boost you on the algorithm you diserve more subs bro good luck!

[@SM33LIE]

I loved this video because I find this kind of art so interesting and there are so many different forms of liminal spaces and surrealism. I hope in the future this is something that is more famous and known. I've been watching a lot of your videos lately and I really enjoy your channel, the music, the lore, your explanations its all exactly what I enjoy. keep it up Virtual Carbon!

[@Veropom]

Literally the best use of Mysterious Ambient from Mario Paint I've ever heard, thank you for these amazingly curated videos 💜

[@martonsimon5842]

I just started watching you and I absolutely love your content! Keep up the good work

[@tearindrop673]

Loved the video! The concept of liminal spaces in general really resonates with me and I'm always happy to see more vids talking about it❤

[@bobua2137]

9:18 the floating eyes are probably meant to represent angels, in the bible they were depicted as having many eyes and wings, so I guess that weird core artists thought that would fit neatly into their works, but edited into one eye and a pair of wings to fit the aesthetic more

[@az8557]

Amazing, really enjoyed the video. Super like

[@fooshfoosh1809]

dude where are your views and subscribers you deserve so much more than this 😭

[@Etherwa]

You are always come up with my topics of my interests

[@theemeraldjester5351]

This was such a fascinating watch. Love your work man, keep it up!

[@Midnight24435]

Top quality. Really enjoyed this.

[@BezoomyKoshka-ip4dz]

Let the kkk out the USA

[@oliverbennett5897]

Loved the video and the way it was executed.

[@xxyoboigxx]

I literally just stumbled upon your channel and I'm shocked you don't have more subs lol I just finished this vid and now I'm subbing. I'm binging your old videos now, in hopes for new vids in the near future.

[@Angelikaslife]

I am so glad you made this comprehensive, high-quality video! This has been my favourite trend by far and I remember the first time I stumbled upon this type of art -- I was completely hooked. You captured everything about this aesthetic & mood perfectly. Amazing composition, writing, editing, ambience; it feels like a documentary, super well done! Don't stop creating~ :)

[@theRPGmaster]

I keep posting this kind of reply. But I can't express just how happy I am to know other people enjoy that kind of aesthetic, the feeling of it. It was completely unheard of when I was younger, I thought I was the only one who felt that way. Drawn to "liminal" places in real life. Of course, I never knew that term back then.

[@Tsaapke]

So glad I found your channel, your videos are amazing and in my opinion you should have a lot more subs. Keep up the good work man!

[@nospace5109]

thank you for coming to show and tell, what a lovely topic youve chosen today.

[@entoki4606]

1:44 That day, if our positions were switched... Would I have your life, and you mine?

[@zefft.f4010]

Clouds in Questionable Areas is a great bandname.

[@Forcommentingpurposes]

I love that all of my favourite creators are discovering the deep iceberg of weird and dream core I’ve been following it since it started and I’m so happy it’s getting attention

[@markimoo2x]

Right and liminal spaces

[@UbiquitousPolitic]

So good. Massively underratted channel

[@BezoomyKoshka-ip4dz]

Better than all these Chinese countries nowadays

[@artofanomaly5657]

Thankyou! instant fan of yours

[@JacobIsACheese]

such an amazing video!!

[@tamarakindle73]

Dali is my favorite artist of all time! Nice video!

[@ada1]

Good vid as always

[@therealliaqat]

I’m so glad I found your channel this is amazing content you upload

[@ratsword200]

I love your videos as background while I play games. Its not too dramatic or loud

[@jaimeisreal]

Great video @Virtual Carbon. I love thought-provoking material/content like this. I watched something really crazy that's related to this video's title. We may be living inside a black-hole. Our universe was created in this black-hole approx., 13.6 billion years ago. And here we are. If this is true, then I'd love to know how to get to the other (outside) universes. Keep it up!!

[@bopshi]

This was so great, thank you!! I had never heard of Rene Magritte before but had seen some of his works, I love them so much

[@TheKnuckmin]

17:35 That's incorrect. Coming in to contact with the gray man only deletes your flashback progress. He doesn't teleport you to the violence district.

[@Swanaenae]

Bro got me floating higher than playboi carti fr

[@bananafruit6060]

My weirdcore image is in here yippee!!

[@milagrosalfonso2501]

Which one

[@HeavyWeapons52]

This is awesome! Thanks for this :D

[@BezoomyKoshka-ip4dz]

Insults you for being happy on the internet

[@joshmyers2471]

☁️🌌☁️Truly Breathtaking!☁️🌌☁️

[@kdiggedydawg]

Magnificent. Looking forward to whatever comes next.

[@shakiraknox315]

I’m a painter, and I’ve decided to start painting my dreams. It’s a whole different world, I’ve studied surrealism and the concept of the mind as well as how to work with my dreams to be able to experience and see more. It’s so worth it. This video just expanded my mind so much more.

[@DiscoLizzard]

5:12 the head in the painting implies that there are G I A N T B O O B S just outside the image

[@nangsanbhalangblah333]

Touch grass my bro

[@theRPGmaster]

Wow, you're right. Mindblowing. I can't believe I didn't think of that

[@LudiusQuassas]

A correction on LSD. The Grey Man makes you forget your dreams, not teleport you to the Violence District.

[@2046335]

Really great editing! Looking forward to more videos

[@echosmoon5605]

I always wanted an open survival game set in the many worlds on a liminal space

[@thejabberwalker]

Bravo!!

[@Five_filling_feasts]

Once i dreampt of dragons. Now i dream of red suns looming over a war torn sea of moving stones

[@janiisdying]

Love your vids

[@swordguy1243]

I was just playing Tomb Raider 1 on Ps1 and right away the first thing that came to my mind was "this place is liminal" , in fact most if not all ps1 games are Liminal . From the lack of sky boxes on some to the low (draw distance) to the lack of npcs . I Tomb Raider 1 there is no Sky box and even though most of the game takes place "indoors" when you look up its like y out staring into the Abyss but yet it gives me this soothing and clam feeling

[@midnightthecat____]

I love these kind of videos ❤❤

[@death1weller]

15:35 "Isd is a game that needs no introduction" *proceeds to introduce it thoroughly*

[@thefunny7285]

bro your voice is a vibe

[@BezoomyKoshka-ip4dz]

No one exists

[@zylonwilliams]

love your channel

[@ELTT1]

Another hood classic

[@09enderman]

4:04 Did you know that the place where the picture was taken was found?

[@entertherealmofchaos]

Nice work

[@_end3rguy_]

adding core to the end of anything makes it feel like the goth wojak girl named it, its like everything does that as some kind of cope for something lacking a name that doesnt need a name. the more mystery, the more intrigue

[@milagrosalfonso2501]

It's exactly like metalcore and deathcore in music lmao

[@Bizarro69]

So you don't like the naming conventions, but what does "something that doesn't need a name" even mean beyond "you personally don't care to identify THAT particular feeling" which people who do quite clearly form a community around and get to unpack those feelings more precisely rather than stew in psychological/emotional alienation. And that's what naming such feelings/things comes down to in the end: forming community. Reducing alienation.

[@_end3rguy_]

@@Bizarro69 my only issue is that when people name something and unpack their feelings, it starts to exclude stuff that they don’t believe fits it, people will categorize stuff differently but when they try to all do it together it begins to get hostile as the rules become more strict

[@AngryPanda1020]

Cope core

[@frocco7125]

Very vibes

[@air-8629]

6:40 - 7:00 i always had this world in my mind without knowing that someone else invented this world...

[@orcamentomib3003]

quando eu tava aprendendo blender eu vivia fazendo um monte de cenário aleatório, hoje em dia essas coisas se chamam espaços liminares

[@RichLunaMusic]

Worlds was like PS Home. That was epic.

[@pyrotechnick420]

2:02 I had a dream where I was in a place that looked similar to this except this dream happened over 25 years ago

[@uraniancoolery927]

Dreamcore is very very spiritual and astral I love it ❤

[@servidig483]

Love these

[@rockcandyxoxo]

Great job hun

[@griefer5846]

this the reason i wanna lucid dream, to be in a relaxing liminal space

[@bermaniamad]

Very cool Video 👻👍

[@Creen_Crayon]

I was hoping you’d talk about LSD dream emulator

[@ericwlezniak2081]

Now liminal space topics and memes will, one day, be thought back on with the same curiosity that those same topics and memes tried to envoke and invoke.

[@dubbsreality5109]

Looks to me like them stairs were leading to heaven lol

[@jellymeuber1747]

This video made me subscribe to your channel

[@joeh5538]

Wish you would list all the artists you talked about, and also just became an art critic. Beksinski is also worth mentioning

[@ekwfan6]

My man talks about LSD Dream Emulator, I hit subscribe.