Liminal Spaces - The Fear of Forgetting

[@ketzerapathetic1414]

Anyone who wants to immerse themselves in uncanny and spooky liminal spaces should try being a 3rd shift janitor for a little while.

[@buffbelugaboi6520]

Or nightshifting as security Did that for while and was sometimes assigned to Shifts in a Hospital, with my Security-Walk (I don't know if theres a correct name for that right now) leading me through the basement of the Hospital and then up to All the actual hospital floors wich at nighttime obviously are very silent and devoid of life, besides the workers you occasionaly meet or some seldom noises like the patient alarm

[@invaderkad]

Overnight housekeeper here! Can 100% confirm

[@ButcherParry]

Retail graveyard shift too

[@spencerrugg7704]

I worked tech support second shift in a decent sized office building for a while. It was always kind of cool to watch these spaces drain into the uncanny. When I started my shift ever day, it was a normal office but by the time I went home it had been empty for hours. I really liked the building and looking out over the city late at night (especially during snow storms) but I could definitely see how it would unnerve people.

[@user-mq6fu6ou4f]

@@buffbelugaboi6520🥶🥶🥶

[@shadw4701]

My favorite thing about liminal spaces is their resemblance to dreams. Even some common dream phenomenon are liminal such as hidden doors or rooms in your house you didn't know existed

[@masonkeiling5925]

WHAT I WAS JUST THINKING ABT THOSE DREAMS

[@Lumberjack_king]

I’ve always loved the idea of secret rooms or doors in my house also basement I love small spaces and I live in Florida so basements aren’t common here

[@oracle372]

I have a recurring series of dreams which takes place in my house. Except, the house is wider, and the third floor is unreachable because the stairs leading up to it are broken. I don't know why.

[@Lumberjack_king]

@@oracle372 interesting if the dream takes place in my house the most consistent things are the front and backyard though those can be warped too

[@caymens604]

not my dreams. Mine are VERY complex and involved XD Like a whole movie, several times a night

[@annafellows9616]

I went back to my old elementary school to visit. Nothing had changed, but the front hall which looked so big to a little kid seemed small to adult me, and I realized, it had always been this size.

[@idkatthispoint-s9s]

Reading this gave me chills...

[@EpikTheBlahaj]

I think my elementary school finna get shut down, the principal literally ignored kids that were getting beat up (like 5th graders ganging up on 3rd grader) and yelled at ME that i could carry 20 pounds of bags (I was in 1st grade)

[@KurmutKurd]

Luminal scale,, grow love big also..then wiser

[@Arlo-is-dead]

it's always weird going into your old school. I went to the fall fair at my elementary school a little while ago, and my friend and I went into the haunted house. It wasn't unsettling because it was a haunted house, but because it felt so familiar; yet different at the same time.

[@null0byte]

You want something trippy? I have an exceptionally keen spatial memory, to the point where when I’m navigating around areas I’m familiar with, I do it in 3D in my mind being able to scroll ahead or back at will visualizing the roads and their surroundings as if it were a game engine render. Well, my strongest spatial memories were houses I lived in for periods of my life. The first one of these was the house I lived in from birth till about 6 years old. I was talking to my parents about that house on the phone one night and I described a virtual walkthrough to them. I described the rooms, described the colors and patterns of the carpet, walls, windows, furniture and where they were placed. My dad kept making these surprised sounds and I finally asked him what was wrong. He told me that right then he happened to be in the middle of digitizing photos from that very house, and as I was describing what I was seeing, he was pulling up pictures and verifying everything I was saying, as I was describing it, even stuff he himself had forgotten about. So how is that trippy? I have what I call a semi-autonomous overactive vivid memory and imagination, so what I was doing isn’t all that special. But here’s the thing: I couldn’t describe certain spots, like, at all. Why? Like I said before, it was a house I lived in from birth till about 6 years old. At best I was about 3 feet tall when we moved. I was doing the walkthrough at my current height of 6 feet (*every* place I can do this in are *always* from the viewpoint of my current height), with the rooms having shrunk due to knowing that they wouldn’t look as big as an adult, and my brain scaled everything to appropriate size as an adult would see it. Those spots I couldn’t describe? Those were the tops of cabinets and shelves that I couldn’t see when I lived there. Where there *should* have been stuff at those spots that my brain just filled in as a best guess (because the brain normally does that automatically), no matter how hard I try all I can see is a grey void, like the texture in a game engine that failed to load.

[@Patchouliprince]

When I was a teenager I would sneak out at night and hang out alone in my small town’s main st. I’d lay in the middle of the busiest road and stare at the stars and listen to the silence. It was awesome, but lonely

[@ashethewitch1156]

I wanna do that so bad but I’m too scared!!!

[@ericgrimes341]

I used to work overnights in Boulder CO. My buddy would come join me and we would play frisbee on pearl st. Right downtown. We would chuck it as hard as we could.

[@DyslexicGamer]

I used to take late-night walks for many years. Wondering through empty streets including major thoroughfares in the dead of night was definitely a trip. Seeing empty schools darkened houses and not a soul in sight was oddly peaceful and strangely fascinating

[@jessicawallace3392]

I did this under a huge cell tower at night. Laid on the ground looking up at the night sky in the still silence of the night and questioning my own existence while sneaking cigarettes. Did this for a long time until one night a wolf came out of the brush and was in attack mode. Thank GOD I had a Swiss cake roll in my bag, I was able to throw it towards him and while he snarled it down I ran until my lungs were on fire and my legs jello. Once I got in the front door I never did that again. But this weird piece of me craves it. So much. I want to disappear from society. Maybe my scars are too deep, the hurt and suffering without any hope for better has become my reality.

[@amazinggrace5692]

It’s 10 o’clock, do you know where your child is?

[@matthewboire6843]

Forgetting and liminality work incredibly well together. I imagine a movie with no talking, one person just walking around liminal spaces, nothing happens, just walking, then it ends. It isn’t supposed to be good, it’s just there.

[@DylansLapplandSimping]

Might not really be what youre looking for, but "The Electric State" was the first thing that popped into my head when reading your comment.

[@matthewboire6843]

@@DylansLapplandSimping I recently heard of it, it definitely fits.

[@itsgxvin]

you should watch the movie “Skinamarink” it’s kind of like what you’re describing. movie isn’t necessarily scary, just very off putting and strange. there is little to no dialogue in the movie either. worth a watch.

[@matthewboire6843]

@@itsgxvin I’ve heard of it but haven’t seen it, maybe I will

[@itsgxvin]

@@matthewboire6843 u def should bro! especially with what ur saying! take care man

[@KRcanondaisa]

I will never forget, way back in what was probably grade 3, my class had just finished the annual christmas concert in the gymnasium stage. all of the kids were supposed to leave with their parents, but for whatever reason, i stuck around, and lost sight of my parents. minutes later I decided to wander back to my classroom, thinking my friends or family would be there, but since it was past 7pm, I was met with nothing but dead, silent, empty school hallways. 8 year old me would NEVER be the same after the shock of seeing the once bustling halls now devoid of life.

[@sourlab]

Such a cool story

[@NIAAESTHTIC]

I experienced something similar I had to go to school on the weekend because my grades were low and while trying to find the classroom I had to learn it I ended up in dark hallways that was supposed to be filled with kids I had to run to my classroom to get a study guide for my math test I left and I was terrified I was scared to go in the classroom alone it felt like I wasn’t supposed to be there I turned around and saw a teacher teaching in a classroom I felt comfortable again and I will never forget that…

[@KRcanondaisa]

@@NIAAESTHTIC god I've definitely had that happen too. it's such a surreal feeling, especially for a kid

[@NIAAESTHTIC]

@@KRcanondaisa definitely I had actually seen liminal spaces before and weridcore but to experience it yourself it definitely much more strange

[@bumbledyke]

The way I would be weirded out going to the school playground during the summer or weekends as a kid, just to hear the way my mind would make up for the lack of kids on the playground. All the yelling and playing and laughing, except it wasn't there. It bothered me for the longest time anytime I'd go back bc I knew what was once there.

[@culturedpotato9497]

A 47 minutes liminal space video is exactly what I needed

[@Kiwiaguy]

Fr

[@JxTime333]

Especially when it is a good ones like this

[@YourKittyMike]

Same

[@waymire01]

When Minecraft was released on the Playstation I used to play quite a bit. I'd randomly generate a world.. set it to peaceful..and just wander all over it, seeing what there was to see until I had uncovered the entire map. Floating islands, waterfalls, amazing rock formations, different biomes, animals, caves, treasure rooms (there were always a few), villagers settlements.. you never knew what you would find. I wouldn't craft anything other than needed tools, or a boat. One day I found an entire herd of horses and just hung out with them. One day I found an entire temple inside a 1x1 hole in the desert. It was so relaxing and peaceful. My daughter found me playing and started asking what I was doing... talking about farms, and buildings, and redstone.. "I'm good.. just exploring". I don't think she ever got it. I know a lot of people get freaked out about liminal spaces, but they are peaceful to me. The only thing that is disturbing is if there is something or someone else in there.. that's the scary part.

[@SamtheShapeshifter]

I am also someone who finds liminal spaces peace, it's places that I could see myself falling asleep and being able to just relax and exist there.

[@frozenfoxgames5300]

I wish I could do that, but my mind won't let me.

[@TiagoAlvesNogueira-r3q]

I can do that... On day and in an open place, closed = I crying in the corner

[@Tarnished-bn5gq]

Liminal spaces feel like either a structure or an entire world suffers from dementia rather than the individual, and that’s what makes them so deeply unnerving.

[@RealCodreX]

I think it is something else. Neither we not liminal dpaces have forgotten anything at all. Rather, they (and we to an extent) are a constant remonder that they have served their purpose and that thekr time is simply over. But we are unwillingly to accept that. Unwillingly to let go and let the entropy of the universe win!

[@rachaelbudgie8390]

@@RealCodreXlove the entropy reference!

[@nanunanu365]

Minor sad story involving the wooden playground thing. In my hometown there was a large wooden playground called Kid's Kingdom, it was awesome and had a vertical tire tunnel leading to a below section that was creepy but still fun. I moved away in early 2014 and it got lost to my memories. Last year I had the chance to take a trip back there with my fiancé and I wanted to show her the "Best playground I have ever been to"....but it was not the same....The sprawling wooden structure was replaced with some dinky "safe" standard playground fare, and the waterpark section which used to have a full water volcano feature... was gone as well.... It only exists in my memories now.... I was so disappointed....

[@sourlab]

Sth that you won't ever experience anymore Just so depressing , hope they rebuild it

[@ExperimentalDud]

I have a feeling that this literally is the same one in my town. I looked it up and “kids kingdom” is kind of a common name for the wooden playgrounds but the volcano just makes it seem like it’s the same one lol. The new place just feels so sterile now.

[@kcskoolz8312]

Was this in South Bend, Indiana?

[@joefaz1377]

Kinda like the 1 park near Central elementary

[@Devonx777]

Kids castle was the one I grew up with, looked identical to the thumbnail

[@Kankan_Mahadi]

Seeing that poor dog who's been sitting on that chair for half a decade almost made me cry...

[@aealzh6125]

me too but i gotta remind u that is is just a bunch of ones and zeros

[@totallynotthreeratsinatren9877]

Me too, idk why but whenever I see a mindcraft dog left and forgotten about I always get sad

[@RF-Ataraxia]

@@aealzh6125 Just remember that even then, the feelings are real, and that's what art does to you. Trigger emotions through fictional scenarios in text, images or sound. Like books, paintings and music!

[@miro_theburger]

reminds me of hachiko

[@mitchellcouchman1444]

The building has deep-slate which is only 3 years old...

[@hoshyro]

Ngl those pool rooms are the most eerily menacing feeling photos in this video to me

[@NVSPBKMG]

Furry

[@hoshyro]

@@NVSPBKMG Cry about it

[@ishitatiwari6056]

​@@NVSPBKMGnot funny

[@NVSPBKMG]

@@hoshyro furry

[@hoshyro]

@@NVSPBKMG You must really like me :)

[@bigfungus2331]

"oh a liminal space video! I like those might as well watch it to pass the time" *47 minutes later* "that was the most beautiful and inspiring video I have ever watched"

[@eeurr1306]

26:22 I dont really understand how that space is comforting to anybody. Just the sight of it gives me a feeling of isolation, sadness and dread.

[@GNOMIES0]

the Minecraft segment hit me super hard, like now i cant look at my old worlds the same anymore, all that time on the 360, playing tutorial worlds with my brother and friends. then all the sudden, im alone.

[@matthewboire6843]

Minecraft single player is a liminal place, it feels so empty, and then, you leave.

[@Ratsixtyfour-ls5jj]

Damn. Hit me hard too.

[@joefaz1377]

​@@matthewboire6843 it felt like a horror game

[@matthewboire6843]

@@joefaz1377 it can at times feel like that; I once heard that the best horror games are not horror games, they scare you because you don’t expect it unlike when you play a horror game.

[@d-boi9785]

⁠@@matthewboire6843Minecraft single player is nice. It’s the best example of being alone not necessarily being a bad thing.

[@matthewboire6843]

“If these wall could talk, they would say nothing”

[@blox_buildz]

is hereby rewarded as “Quote that the hits Hardest of the Year”!!

[@matthewboire6843]

@@blox_buildz thanks, it’s not mine

[@Sanguivore]

Damn, that's good.

[@UnkownWonders]

Saw that exact quote on dream core/weird core images

[@matthewboire6843]

@@UnkownWonders yea I got it from some video

[@ForgottenDawn]

I think that this is a fair analysis of liminal spaces as a concept and as an overall visual style. Kudos for finally mentioning Marc Augé and why his non-places book is so important to understand liminality from an anthropological standpoint.

[@Cresendex]

Thanks! But I can't really take credit for including Marc Auge as another youtuber called Clark Elison put it in a video about The Backrooms which is what caused me to do more research and mention it, the comparison has been made before, just not specifcally to liminal spaces, I hope to find more things soley on my own one day!

[@lceBreak3r]

@@CresendexI love both of you guys' vids!!

[@lceBreak3r]

Clark and yours

[@saigesplayce3915]

Okay, when a video starts with a quote from J. R. R. Tolkien and music from The Caretaker, you know it’s gonna be good.

[@nicholasacevedo2679]

"A future that might forget who i was but won't forget me" damnnnnn that hit hard bro i needed that

[@StyleshStorm]

After having the free time over the weekend I fully watched this. He might not see this comment but by the end it gave me a single tear. There's a lingering fear after he explained all this and greater detail. The fear of our own mortality.

[@Cresendex]

I did see this comment, and thank you

[@shadetreader]

I've been appreciating and photographing liminal spaces for over thirty years, so I guess my consolation is to know I was ahead of my time....

[@salexo9]

The feeling I get from the liminal space pictures that affect me is a weird mixture of comfort, melancholy and yearning. It's a feeling hard to describe, but ever since 'liminal space' has become a social media phenomenon that people talk about at least I now know what to enter into the search bar to get to that mental/emotional place if I'm in the mood for it. I've also found that certain musical/sound pieces can get me to that state (mostly meditative music) and you're using a lot of them in this video. I guess people really are more alike than they are different.

[@Moonie420]

I never thought about the word “unheimlich” like that because it just means “scary” or “eerie”. Really enjoyed the video. Great work!

[@Br0kenMask]

also 'heimlich' is mostly used for 'secretive' or 'stealthy'

[@retromacman620]

I find airports really calming and peaceful when I'm not in a hurry. It's a bit similar to the way I feel about walking through my local mall with no intent. Your videos are well done and this one really cuaght my attention! I hope your channel continues to grow!

[@wallsocksProductions]

I recently spent the majority of a weekend in airports waiting for flights. This comment pretty much sums up the experience. Some of the bigger airports especially look and feel like malls. I was traveling alone and, especially on the return trip, had plenty of time to wait for my flight. So I was able to just wander around and explore. The only thing preventing it from giving that full "liminal" feeling was that they were packed with people.

[@retromacman620]

@@wallsocksProductions what's odd is being at any airport at a time when certain areas aren't packed with people, that's a little wild.

[@pravkdey]

​@@retromacman620 I usually go to the smokers area at mine when I can see there'll be a spot far away from the people smoking cuz it has a great view. One time for like a minute there was nobody there can you can't see into the airport from that spot. It was really nice. A plane was taking off and I imagined it was like the future and the planes are like AI controlled or something and it's empty so there's nobody around in the world at all haha

[@op4trick]

The image at 00:29 is my home town Mogi das Cruzes, in Brazil. I used to cross that exact spot every day going home, so weird seeing it in one of these videos.

[@UnkownWonders]

Honestly in general walking and seeing completely any empty streets feels liminal and unsettling

[@hierroluy]

Bem que eu tava achando essa rua extremamente reconhecível, toda essa coisa de Liminal Spaces tem um certo de limite regional, sinto muito mais "liminaridade" ou "heimlich" quando vejo ruas brasileiras desertas do que ruas gringas

[@grapeape325]

I used to sneak around the local community college during summer break as a teen. Those memories of the empty classrooms and lecture hall, stay with me 30+ years later.

[@Warriorcat-rh2qv]

my sister would have to go to college earlier than it started because of transport limitations. the empty halls of an old building, previously a manor. random sounds in the pre-sunrise morning being the only one there.

[@jhbjf_hwv1980]

45:00 i was napping while listening to your video and entered a half awake half asleep state during this part. i continued to be in this state til the end of the video, and it felt weird listening to this part again fully awake. idk why i decided to share, thought it was cool

[@demobro3954]

Hearing this while putting myself in a "staring off into space" moment to get close to your feeling made this interesting. It's like hearing a subconscious thought out loud that pulls you back to reality as it keeps speaking.

[@Platinum_XYZ]

kinda interesting actually. thanks for sharing

[@artisticfilzah]

i absolutely love this video. the message at the end is amazing. i love how all this silverlining was just from the topic of "liminal space". the meaning of life and how important we all are. how worthy we are. how much we matter. how grateful we should be about everything and that we should live life to the fullest. every aspect of this video was amazing. i'm saving this video so i could rewatch in the future sometime. after it has left my memory.

[@RyPieEye]

One thing I differ on with this is the poolrooms. They just unsettle me in a weird way, I can just imagine something splashing closer, and closer out from the dark leaving me powerless to stop it. I only really would feel comfortable in a poolroom of closed off walls because I'd be terrified of hearing the splash of something else in the distance.

[@dragontear1638]

In addition to this, consider how being in shin or knee deep water would not only slow you down if you have to move quickly, but you'll make a lot of splashing noise too. Fun times.

[@KatFoxxe]

Yeah, those images are just terrifying. Especially the ones with the dark tunnels. I can just imagine being in there and hearing the echoes of splashing, getting closer and closer.

[@squid2039]

14:00 im actually so glad you mentioned places that dont strickly fit the definition of transitional space because a lot of my favorite liminal spaces dont include simple hallways and are more surreal almost dreamlike locations like stuff you cant remember if you actually experienced a long time ago or if it was in a weird dream. you pretty much said exactly this for the second defintion but i had wrote most of this before i got to that part and only hoped you would bring it up lol

[@carrionclara]

i must have watched every single liminal spaces video essays on youtube. i adore this concept so much; and this was a great reflection on them!

[@phoenixwong4313]

Same I've watched all of them awhile ago....but I still comeback to them once in a while

[@giyus.kitten]

Thank you for that ending❤ I’ve been struggling with depression and an intense fear of dying almost my whole life. Sometimes it’s so hard that the least scary thing seems to just die. I had this video on in the background but really focused on the outro. It somehow gave me a bit of meaning to everything I do. Thank you for making it a bit easier to continue❤

[@uNkLeRaRa4]

"There was one a time in my life where I would always fantasize about being the last person on Earth" Amen brother

[@koopanique]

How can you guys fantasize about something so scary? Being the latest person on Earth must be so sad and lonely. And I say that as an introvert... But imagining myself so lost and alone... scary stuff

[@uNkLeRaRa4]

@@koopanique It would be terrifying, but that's a small part of the appeal. Fear can be entertaining, motivating, captivating, etc.

[@Arlo-is-dead]

I put this on as background noise while I wrote last night, but I didn’t end up writing anything because this was so friggin’ captivating. Beautiful video, dude

[@HadeTheReal]

I get this feeling sometimes when walking through the streets at night. Empty car parks , town at night pretty much most places at night feel like a liminal space

[@JohnLuke-Uh]

I feel like the concept of mental maps comes into play with liminal spaces a lot. I think that the liminal spaces we resonate the most with are the ones that resemble the mental maps of spaces we created as children. The spaces that are kind of an amalgamation between the sets of our favorite tv shows, our old houses, schools, doctors offices, places we saw in dreams, and all of the spatial information we absorbed as kids and then reframed into new spaces in our minds are liminal spaces.

[@gnbman]

This video made me realize that the lack of context, or the removal of context, is in some form present in literally every liminal space photo I've ever seen. That has got to be tied to our imperfect memories.

[@Kid_Majora]

There’s this neighborhood near where i live, it has very modern architecture-very square, big windows that sort of thing-and the last time i went over there, it was almost completely uninhabited. Some houses weren’t finished, but we went at night, so there was no construction going on. There was even a small, dimly-lit park. I was terrified. And everyone and a while, i’d see someone in a house, and look away immediately. The houses weren’t furnished, there was no way anyone lived in there anyways. My brother got out at one point and I was convinced something terrible would happen. While he was out, a car with dark windows stopped nearby and I almost had a heart attack. I don’t know why anyone else was there. Probably the same reason we were, but still. It was terrifying.

[@slowjamsformice]

That playground is a specific pre-made one, so yes, those people did grow up with it.

[@MySerpentine]

Just not that exact one.

[@hansdiedeutsch7881]

​@@MySerpentine it's the same as someone seeing an eerily similar mcdonalds to the one they grew up with and their brain thinking it's the exact same one. It's just a specific pre-built playground that was produced by a company to be built across the United States.

[@MySerpentine]

@@hansdiedeutsch7881 Exactly.

[@morning_staar]

I will never forget my last day of elementary school. Back then I hated school, I often didn't wanna go, I'd rather stay at home and sleep longer and then play outside all day. Last day of elementary school we had party with all the students from out generation and teachers, after all was over, it was late noon, I stayed in last, school was pretty much empty, maybe few teachers left in their offices so I decided to just walk around the school for the last time to say my goodbyes, it was so liminal, so empty and familiar, I went down to the lower classes where I went when I was a kid, I had such a great memories from it, I will never forget that alone walk thought my elementary school and feelings I got while walking.

[@TarryTar]

your videos always make me feel better, ive been feeling kind of down lately. so thank you

[@Cresendex]

Hope you feel better and I'm glad I could help in any capacity.

[@Mx.muffin]

When I was younger, the night in Minecraft scared me because of how empty it was. Even if I was in creative mode, when night came, I hunkered down in a hole until day. Now, I really like liminal spaces and really want to explore them. It feels like the places are saying something. Sometimes, when I go to historical places (there's a historical village from colonial times near my house) and the roads and bridges and houses that are left there always felt liminal. People used to use these things as just another aspect of their lives, like just going down the road and going to the tanner or something, but now that I look at these empty historical villages, it feels so liminal (especially since there aren't many people who visit the village, devoiding it of life). I think historical places like this is a good example of liminal spaces, a place devoided of life suspended in a time lost.

[@sttubz]

I remember when I was a kid in elementary school, my school had a GIGANTIC field that was rarely used, and I'd go there during my lunch to read. Near the edge of the field was an abandoned kickball area with old wooden benches I'd always sit, and it was always so quiet. I miss those quiet days...

[@adorablecockroach5131]

The speech at the end funnily enough made me think of a line that Freddy Kruger said in one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, "Being dead wasn't a problem, but being forgotten, now that's a bitch."

[@ni-dirus]

Horror movies actually have a ton of good quotes about mortality. They end up being very poignant when removed from context. My favorite is "Sometimes dead is better." It's from Salem's Lot, and in context is about not resurrecting the dead. But the movie also shows a character suffering slowly from an illness that leaves her sister resenting being a caretaker as just a child, and this poor child (and woman recollecting the trauma as an adult) admits to wishing her sister would just die. For the sake of the sister in pain, the argument could be made that dead is better. For the sister being a caretaker, the argument could be that dead is better. And anyone dealing with chronic health issues, caretaking those they love but know will never get better, or are experiencing a very nihilistic patch, the thought "Sometimes dead is better" can really ring true. And it's funny, the first quote from JRR Tolkien is out of context. It's meaningful to everyone who reads it but it was just a quote about wandering enemies being on the lookout for the protagonists.

[@heyimgoingtoplaysomegames]

All objects are sentient and retain consciousness at a level. That’s why when we’re in liminal spaces there’s still a comforting feeling of not being completely alone. The framing of a door has consciousness, a ceiling tile, a garbage lid…….you may be the only person in the room, but you’re not alone.

[@f5tornado831]

Excusé moi?

[@heyimgoingtoplaysomegames]

@@f5tornado831 Read into all the mystic traditions, and trip experiences from people who have gone deep with psychedelics. There is a thread through each of these practices and experiences that demonstrates all things around us have some form of consciousness. So, no, you can’t have a conversation with the lamp sitting on the table to your left, but it’s aware of your presence, and you aware of it, though you may not be able to directly perceive it.

[@f5tornado831]

@@heyimgoingtoplaysomegames I don't think that's how that works...

[@heyimgoingtoplaysomegames]

@@f5tornado831 It’s my opinion on consciousness

[@f5tornado831]

@heyimgoingtoplaysomegames What separates one thing from another? Is each brick of a building conscious, or is the whole building conscious?

[@cakecrumb095]

Cresendex: I bet you can’t name 10 people from the 1500s. Tudor History Nerds: Hold my beer.

[@ThomasTowell-iv5mi]

Easily my favorite KZbinr every video has so much thought and love put into it I can watch them for ever this was an absolute banger keep up the good stuff

[@silentmarblefox]

You know, I've always tried to understand what is meant by "liminal space" and you managed to explain it in a way that I finally understood. Thank you for that!

[@pyerack]

23:49 out of all the pictures shown this one freaked me out the most. It's not 100% the same place but similar enough to one I went to for a star wars themed birthday party once.

[@The-Cheese-Grater]

I’m a manager for my schools football team, and so after away games I am sometimes left alone to take the bottles and those big Gatorade coolers up. I have to go up steps and across one of the gyms to get to the training room to put them up, and everything is empty. I’m used to it, but one night, the fire alarm went off, and so we did the usual, me left alone to put things away, but afterwards when firefighters came and did a walk through to make sure everything was fine, falling behind and hearing the faint alarm sounding in a building I had only ever heard that sound with other kids around was weird. I’ve only ever heard it during drills or when faulty wiring triggered it- never before nor after have I ever heard it while standing alone in the middle of one of the schools gyms- it echoing as I continued my job. Other fun fact abt where I’ve been in my school consists of the kitchens, the freezer in the kitchens and also the janitor areas. It’s always so weird to me that I’m probably the only student to have been to certain places in the school. Especially the freezer, because I was only in there to grab food for the football team, and we haven’t done those prepacked meals for awhile, so it’s always in my mind that I might be the last student to see that area for who knows how long. Another thing I wanna say is that I have a weird anxiety around forgetting. After my (great) grandpa passed, we were getting rid of his stuff that we couldn’t keep (my extended family included) and I found myself sitting on his and grandmas couch one last time, and I pressed my face into the armrest, holding back tears as I forced the smell into my memory as best I could. I don’t remember it anymore. I don’t remember his voice, and as I’m doing filing for my dad, nearly forgot what he looked like, only reminded by photos in a file titled ‘family’. I went through files about his items being given to different family members, and seeing the images of his belongings brought genuine tears to my eyes as while I hadn’t fully remembered them, I remembered the essence. I recalled the lunches and meals we had with him and grandma at the retirement home. The halls, the surprisingly well cushioned chairs, the desserts they served. I recall the entrance of the place, the parking lot, their room. Then I recall the halls leading to his hospital room, the vending machines and the elevators nearby. I remember the funeral home his funeral started in only because we had grandmas funeral there. I remember the pictures of his life and family, I remember drinking coffee in the kitchen area in the funeral home. I wish I asked more questions, but I was too scared to do so for some reason. I have horrible memory, and as such my fear of forgetting those I love- their faces, voices, and memories that we had shared alone together- is terrifying. I do not wish to forget and yet I still do. No matter what I do, the memories I intend to hold dearest I forget the quickest, and that is what scares me.

[@ha11oween]

Silent hill music hits so deep! Team SILENT truly was first to truly express vibes of liminal spaces!

[@rateeightx]

26:33 This is honestly super interesting, Because those pool rooms are frankly one of the freakiest ones shown in the video to me. Many of the others feel weird, Yes, Out of place, Or without context, But they don't feel _wrong,_ But that pool just feels very wrong. Like everything about it. I'd be terrified if I were there.

[@oldensad5541]

Lol, we are so different.. I feel immense dread just by looking at that pool pictures, but you describe them like comfortable. And i feel so good loking at most "scary" ones, especially if they placed outdoors 😂

[@KevinRAAMAAAGE]

I ride in a saddle that is a British Calvary Officer's saddle from WWI. I had it restored. My favorite sweater I ride in is a pastel yellow one with the rocky mountains on it and has that quote. I didn't realize it was a Tolkien quote until just now. Synchronicity is a beautiful thing. To know I have a saddle from the men that inspired the riders of Rohan, I just had a real emotional moment there. I'm glad I saw this video. I'm so glad that object has a second life with me.

[@catdownthestreet]

Back again with another banger of a video, I see The wooden playground thing! I almost made the exact same comment that so many other people did, because I've actually visited the wooden playground of my childhood recently. It's the Playground of Dreams in New Mexico, my uncle helped build it and it's still around to this day. It doesn't look exactly like the picture you showed but it is eerie how similar it is to that.

[@Eyeofdust]

I think the most accurate way of describing a liminal space Is “uncanny valley but instead of for people For a place”

[@Sanguivore]

Great summation! I definitely agree.

[@omokok1877]

Uncanny valley is a place

[@KnockOut1122]

Thank you for putting voice to the feelings I have whenever I look at liminal space images. I feel like similar video essays don’t put enough focus on the forgetting, the loss. So many other videos get hung up on spaces not fitting the definition, that a child’s bedroom or an empty pool is not a “transitional space”. They most definitely are, at least in this context. They are a space that WE, transitioned out of. They are the past, are we not continuously in space of transition? I will never get to experience how my childhood living room felt in 2008. I’ve left that part of my live behind, whether I knew it at the time or not. I’m only 25, but I can’t stop thinking about how much I’ve forgotten, and how much I will forget in the future. My past is slipping through my fingers and there isn’t much I can do about it, other than to cling to these imperfect recollections of what I used to know. It hurts.

[@unknowntees538]

Ya know, i don't "👍🏻" that many videos but this is One of the first videos I have actively gone out of my way to like and suggest to others. It has such a meaningful impact, I had shown it to a friend of mine struggling at the time with some depression and That ending really made them feel better, So yeah I couldn't recommend a better video!

[@aquamarie3117]

THANK YOU for saying "those." I keep seeing "not all who wander are lost" stickers and everyone forgets the "those." IT'S "NOT ALL *THOSE* WHO WANDER ARE LOST." WITHOUT THE "THOSE" IT DOESN'T FIT THE METER OF THE POEM IT'S FROM yes this is the hill I'm going to die on

[@DUBLIMINAL]

To me, they evoke a profound sense of nostalgia and possibility, like echoes of places we’ve been or dreams we’ve almost had. There’s something uniquely powerful about the way liminal spaces make us confront the void between the familiar and the unknown, and that’s exactly the kind of feeling I aim to capture in my music. Thank you for sharing this - it’s a perfect reminder of why I’m so drawn to these fleeting worlds.

[@GamingMB07.]

Dude, the image at 12:21 looks like a weird wacky version of my old house that I haven't seen since I was 6. It looks right yet wrong at the same time...

[@Mel-xz1fe]

Its from amazing world of gumball

[@qwertyokbomb7959]

A wonderfully crafted video essay, I love this man’s content

[@nebula1383]

Me too. Such a unique perspective

[@Penguiscute]

NEW CRESENDEX UPLOADDD

[@Fosi94]

WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING

[@GunGodYV]

@@Fosi94 Lemongrab is that you?

[@Forever-ec8tm]

Nah literally me when I saw the video

[@fox_mar]

the minecraft images at 20:45 and 23:42 are my images, it's nice to see that my game photography is getting popular :3

[@Cresendex]

Thats cool! You gotta tell me the origins of the image at 20:45 I was looking at it for a good minute thinking it was an old Xbox edition map I used to play on but I'm not sure.

[@sourlab]

Yo that's sick !

[@d-boi9785]

@@Cresendexold comment but I’m pretty sure this is a darker version of one of the hunger games maps, you know the mini games they added to console?

[@electra12331]

tbh ive never found such a perfect word for the feeling i felt about these places before i discovered liminal spaces. the feeling you explain at the beginning about exploring empty places is so resonant with me

[@electra12331]

oh and i love your videos, thanks

[@Nictho27]

Man, I absolutely love the ending monologues of your videos. If I'm having a bad day and then hearing some of those lines, it definitely helps me move my mind to a more positive place. Appreciate you and your videos dude, keep up the awesome work.

[@Robstar664]

HES POSTED ONCE AGAIN! :D LETS GOOO

[@Link-28]

I have passed the whole video looking for eyes waching me in those pictures, movements in the corners, doors opening, but nothing. one of the best videos in quite a while.

[@jonprodeer6200]

The image at 20:47 is actually a mini game map on the old Ps3 and Xbox 360 additions of Minecraft and it brought so many memories back to me since it played a major role in my child hood. Thats why the new minecrafts music, textures, absence darkness, and absence of fear from unknown just doesnt feel the same and as fun to adventure like it used to

[@ben5033]

This makes me feel old. I was already an adult when Minecraft released. The thought of kids living their lives online and forgetting aspects of their experiences after years in MINECRAFT is so crazy to me. Like, I understand, but in much simpler terms.

[@200PM]

I love liminal spaces. Glad to see you made a video on it. Ima watch it now

[@felixlevesque8763]

Last summer I worked in my old elementary school for a month to clean it for the next school year. It was really weird to see my school empty in the middle of summer. I saw my old classrooms completely empty of people and furniture and the dark corridors filled with desks. the felling of liminality was very present. What hit me the hardest was being alone in the library and finding the same old books that I read in my childhood and walking the same path to go to school and back home every day (once in the morning at 7am when nobody is awake, twice at lunch and once at the end of the day) was a really weird experience. I also got to see place in the school that I had never seen like the elevator and the janitor's storage room.

[@SnowDawg712]

You have never made a video that was bad or was poorly made. The quality your your content is incredible. This is easily one of your best videos yet and is my personal favorite of the videos that you have made. You are a seriously underrated channel. Keep up the phenomenal work man. Edit: It is absolutely criminal that one of your videos hasn't reached 1mil views yet and your channel not having at least 100k subs for the amount of quality you have put into your content.

[@leslieherman7955]

That Minecraft part gave me chills

[@NeverCallKriss]

There was a scene in "28 Days Later" Where the main character after leaving the hospital was wandering around abondoned London, I don't know how to describe that scene, it just makes me feel a surtant way.

[@dragontear1638]

A highly memorable, surreal situation, the certain way is unnatural and haunting I reckon.

[@tedy_mc7020]

An absolutely amazing way to end the video! I loved it. The ending moved me from the "being forgotten in time" feeling created throughout the video to the "live your life" feeling that is actually important. I thank you for this video, this piece of art.

[@flawed1]

While I personally do think the back rooms are much creepier without entities, I do not think there was any ambiguity on whether or not an entity existed in the original post. The original point being made is “ If you hear something, it HAS heard you” . The conditionality here is whether or not you hear it, but once you have heard something, it has unquestionably heard you, which means we know what it is because we know it can hear you. The if does not apply to the creature existing. The if applies to you hearing it

[@flawed1]

In short, we know the entity can hear. Therefore, if we know, the entity can hear, it must exist.

[@msgreen419]

The pool rooms are an uneasy comfort. A place that seems like it would be safe, but at the same time, knowing liminal spaces, the pool rooms have me double checking corners but still feeling comfortable enough to take a moment to breathe

[@notpastel1511]

This reminds me of the first episode of Twilight Zone. No one else being there, yet you are all alone slowly forgetting those who you loved who you are...

[@Cresendex]

Hi Pastel

[@notpastel1511]

@@Cresendex Hey Cresent

[@wormslayerlink9396]

The Minecraft segment hit me harder than probably most people… I am personally infatuated with liminal spaces and realizing that Minecraft worlds can be liminal spaces awoke memories to me of worlds and servers me and my friends used to go to in the 5th grade when we really had a big Minecraft phase. So many worlds so many memories, yet sometimes coming across buildings or disturbance of the natural surrounding that you simply can’t remember why it was there. My Minecraft friend growing up was naturally my best friend unfortunately he committed suicide at 13. Because of this those Minecraft worlds are even more liminal and eerie knowing not only are some of these memories and times gone but the creator too.

[@leonryder4070]

Ive only ever found comfort in these spaces. Thank you for keeping the topic alive in 2024!

[@Purple.mind...Honored.one.]

The feeling of being extremely alone but not quite alone, Like you can prove that there's nothing there, But at the same time every one of your subconscious instincts are telling you you're being watched or hunted.

[@jlynn1309]

No, deadass tho, that wooden play ground is legit. Theres at least two playgrounds like that here in Michigan, I used to play on them when I was a kid and a few years ago with my siblings. It’s one of my favorite playgrounds and I’ll even go back there one of these days to prove that it exists.

[@jlynn1309]

There’s actually more than one in Michigan, look up TimberTown in Chelsea MI, Fort Fraser in Fraser MI, Danish Kingdome Playground in Greenville MI, Hager Park in Georgetown MI and Rayner Park in Mason MI. These playgrounds DO exist and I HAVE been to some of them.

[@SamsarasArt]

There's one in my town that still exists to this day.

[@meloshi2597]

How did you somehow miss the entire point that he was making with the playground

[@DemonXD-ro6ng]

Around the 32 minute mark, my hairs were standing up and I would get chills all over my body or my eyes would kill me to try and look away. The sight of seeing someone or something in a place they shouldn't be like a humanoid shadow in the corner of my room, that is what I find so much scarier than the feeling of unknown or familiarity. The simple confusion as...why, just why are you there.

[@devist8er117]

About a year ago I got the chance to work as a tech intern at my high school that I had just graduated from as a summer job. This eventually lead to working at the Elementary towards the second half of the summer that I had never gone to as a kid because I had switched schools. Occasionally after work or just before work ended, a friend and I would just wonder around the completely empty hallways that we had no recollection of. There were hardly any lighs on, no sounds no people ... nothing but what appeared to be a school, but with no one there. I always liked the thought of liminal spaces so this was pretty surreal.

[@theludvigmaxis1]

Just found your channel and absolutely fell in love. Your videos truly hit on some topics I think about often but rarely find anyone else discussing. Things which ultimately can be traced to our primal instincts and our evolutionary nature and subconscious but lead to some complex and profound thoughts. Like being afraid of the unknown because as animals we fear predators hiding. Such as when we play peaceful mode Minecraft. Or like in this video you have blown my mind. How as humans our very existence and world is based on our memory. Which we fear may fail or like when we see familiar looking structures or pictures. These liminal spaces and Deja vu make us question out memories and therefore question our entire world! And nostalgia can help reassure our memories and make us feel secure in our model of the world and in our own existence!

[@ormapa1206]

Airports are one of my favorite places. Especially the ones in the other city, when I'm returning. They are so sterile that it lets me wonder in my thoughts and at the end they become quite profound. Would love to see one empty. The closest I can get is when the plane is really early or really late and there are barely any people and it is awesome.

[@hunterconner6736]

Wow what an incredible way to end the video. Actually started crying, great video man.

[@WilliamLoasby]

I just realized that area shown at 25:02 is from never gonna give you up music video😂

[@Lapidraco]

You just got Rickrolled😂

[@rachelthecool2880]

Came looking for a comment like this, glad to know it wasn't just me :D

[@Nana-CiaoChiba]

No matter how empty looking, how quiet or liminal. It will always feel like there will be something there, something unreachable, something no one has even layed there eyes on. Anything and anyone, can make you feel nostalgia; but you will never get to experience those same emotions again. There's always something there.

[@Lenuas]

The minecraft part hit me hard Me and my friends had so many servers There all gone now and i dont even have a world file to revisit them

[@saintmalaclypse3217]

In my humble opinion, one of the qualities of a liminal space is that you don't belong there. Not that people don't belong there, but that YOU, specifically, don't belong there AND other people may or may not belong there. For example, you don't belong in a public library at 2:00 am, but a janitor might. Or you might have gone to Junior High, but you don't belong in its hallways today. The sense of not belonging may come with a fear of consequences or it may not, but it has that feeling of "you are not welcome". Which is not to say you are forbidden, you just aren't invited. And that creates a few subcategories: 1) Places you once belonged but do not anymore: Past schools, old workplaces, childhood homes. 2) Places you are welcome at certain times, but not right now: your workplace outside of business hours; your school(s) outside of school hours; airports when you are not there to fly. 3) Places you were never welcome or invited and will never belong under normal circumstances: strangers' homes; businesses after hours where you never worked and have never used their services. And, of course, in all those examples, I'm talking about being there when nobody else is. I worked security at a college, and although it was spooky-ish at night, I knew I belonged there. It didn't have the same feeling as it would if I was there and had no invitation or reason to be there.

[@justgaming7679]

Back to liminal spaces lets go

[@vespertine789]

As someone prone to derealization & disconnect from others due to cptsd, I feel hypnotically comforted by liminal spaces. The primal dread/emptiness is replaced with congruence, like yeah somethings not right and its a wonderful dreammmm!

[@DexyD20]

"A place between" is a good of a definition as any to me. Between what? Anytime and everything. Between here and there, between then and later, between consciousness and unconsciousnes, between use and disuse, between life and death, between remembering and forgetting, between familiar and unfamiliar. Liminality is the between state. And that between state can startles us or be uncanny because we usually don't focus on the background, because we feel like and for the most part, we weren't meant to actually see it, at least until it stares us in the face. A liminal space is the background between states given focus. Like imagine the apartment from Friends with no one on set and the lights off. Nostalgia or anemoia, or the thing between them, isn't a part of liminality in the truest sense, but it is at the same time, because it's between then and later, between life and death, between happy and sad, and between remembering and forgetting, like how a square is a rectangle but a rectangle isn't a square.

[@Dinoober]

I had this feeling once when I was cycling home from a babysitting job, it was almost 2 am, snowing, no one around, but I was in the streets I was familiar with. It felt lonely, but in someway also comforting to be alone in the silence of the night

[@CheshireGhost]

I really hope that the wooden playground design was common. There was one that I went to as a child in Saint Paul, MN. I still visit it in my dreams, and got to take my friend's child there before they tore it down during covid to put up a new, bland, generic plastic playground that's absolutely nothing special. Knowing there are more wooden playgrounds, like the one I remember, out there somewhere, gives me hope.

[@Sancho_Dex]

It seems to be common based on what everyone says, though I only know of one, which is located a few minutes' walk from my house all the way in Melbourne, Australia. I also stared at this image, looked it up and down, and still refuse to believe that the image shown in this video is not my local park.

[@omar-1-28]

Probably one of the most sensational, and well written liminal space video ive ever seen, well done

[@Hiro_7318]

24:59 Never gonna

[@Sillyist_of_the_silly]

Give you up

[@federicocervigni7525]

Never gonna

[@KingBassMcPoptarts]

The connection between liminal spaces, and dreams and nostalgia, is HUGE for me. A lot of places I remember from my early childhood in Nebraska are incredibly frequent recurring locations in my dreams: the old church my grandparents took me to that had incredibly eerie rooms and hallways that only got freakier at night or anytime else there was nobody there and the lights were off, the old building the elementary school I went to was in, the flat open spaces of the county roads that were an ocean of corn fields that I knew so well growing up in a rural area in a hundred year old farmhouse. The mall in Omaha that I used to go to with my sister all the time (hell if I know if it’s still open, it may be closed now), the roller skating rink I used to go to a lot with friends from school or church (I wouldnt be surprised if it’s no longer there). I still think of these places a lot, I see facsimiles of them in my dreams quite a bit, and every so often I see liminal space pictures that have similarities to them, and it just… hits me in a way that’s so haunting yet comforting. It really is a hard feeling to describe, but I must say I think your description of liminal spaces and how they connect to memory and forgetting really strikes a chord for me given all this. Great video.