Encyclopedia Of A World That Doesn’t Exist | Codex Seraphinianus

[@benthomason3307]

The author actually once explained exactly what his intent was with this book. You actually hit the nail on the head: it's meant to emulate the experience a young child who can't yet read has when they come across an illustrated encyclopedia.

[@ezrastardust3124]

I love that so much Wish we had more books like that (and pieces of art in general)

[@exorias625]

well he apparently succeeded in confusing the shit out of everyone but it doesnt seem that popular

[@netowner666]

That's awesome

[@lrgogo1517]

Any source?

[@benthomason3307]

@@lrgogo1517 wikipedia

[@menzoberranzam]

This is exactly the book that a child would have access only during his childhood, but would remember it forever, but struggle for the rest of his life trying to remember the name of the book...

[@choomah]

i get that feeling all the time, i hate it hahahaha

[@gormauslander]

This was me for a while with "the visitor", but as you can see, i did eventually remember enough of that to describe it to a very confused google who gave me the leads to find it again

[@desireer6915]

YES

[@kylechin8706]

It was "the last book in the universe" for me. Got a girlfriend a few months ago, told her about the lost book from my childhood that got away and she knew the title. Gunna wife her.

[@amazingabby25]

My husband had that with a hotel motel book he got at a yard sale with his grandmother, we finally found it after 10 years of looking

[@SatansFire]

Oh my god this book. My friend and I as kids found it in our town library and thought it was some secret knowledge we stumbled onto that we werent meant to know.

[@michaelfloodine]

Anybody else screenshot that "'Satan' discovered secret knowledge as a kid in his towns library" yaknow... for the sheer meemery?

[@11-devonb25]

mor elike some scp shit

[@buklau837]

Imaging reading this book while high

[@AlottaBoulchit]

@@buklau837 imagine being high and somehow translating the language into understandable English. Then the author is like "wait wtf?" 😆

[@buklau837]

@@AlottaBoulchit I can’t imagine what I’ll translate to if it’s from another world

[@heinrichharkonen2084]

This book makes the world of Alice in Wonderland like the most logical thing ever

[@rdramon98]

Alice in Wonderland: My descendant, you have honored my legacy and passed down the idea of the absurd!

[@Tekyng_of_Baregan]

Potato person from Alice in Wonderland **exists** Someone who has seen the people in Codex Seraphinianus "Yep, checks out. Potato person makes sense, it's not very weird."

[@guhrizzlybaire]

Oh I *love* this. My gut reaction was "God I wish my mom was alive so I could buy her this book as a present, she would love this". She died in 1995. She was an incredible artist and her art reminds me a ton of this, not as surrealist but she dabbled in that kind of stuff a little bit and had lots of posters of illustrations similar to these. Thanks for unlocking a new fixation! Ha ha

[@guhrizzlybaire]

also, holy crap the atomic level illustrations looked like Minions, lol

[@ulrikahaggard9923]

The saddest thing is there was a gap of 14 years where she could've bought it the book was first released in 1981

[@earlderl6503]

Rest easy angel. My brother who also has passed would love this too. He also was an artist I hope they are creating art on the other side

[@NurseSnow2U]

@guhrizzlybaire7732 - oh my goodness, what a beautiful sentiment. Her love lives on through you and I’m sure she’s aware of how much you mean to each other. Much love to you. ♥️

[@alexfagnan7469]

This is brilliant!!! I love this. How did I not know about this?!?! I love it. It reminds me of the Voynich manuscript and Hieronymus Bosch’s paintings. Can’t say enough good things about this.

[@JulianoFonseca7557]

Imagine a book that tries to recreate an entire planet, explaining from the beings and its biology, to the laws of physics completely different from ours. The book could be written by experts in the field, where they would really try to make it as realistic as possible, as if it really could exist, I would love to read one like that.

[@DrinzenDrawz]

sameee that's why i love speculative zoology, works like after man, the future is wild, man after man and all tomorrows are kinda like that but it all has our planet involved. I love the idea of a book or documentary series going over the fauna and flora on an alien or alternative world.

[@shaydendurham6748]

Like the Netflix series alien world's

[@YaBoiDREX]

Look up Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. Its not exactly a new world with different physics but it doesn’t speculate on what life would be like in a giant organism the size of a mountain range.

[@The0Stroy]

Here is something you will be interested in then: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5jdi6luqdaHlc0

[@DrinzenDrawz]

@@YaBoiDREX ohhh thank you

[@Hamza_Aziz]

Plot Twist, the author has been banished from his home dimension and thrown into our inferior simple 3d-plain dimension with basic physics. Now he is writing down how his home dimension looked like, also same time appealing to children.

[@melissamartinez5432]

Facts😁🤘

[@SiliconBong]

sounds legit

[@luiscedeno7856]

dr strange

[@swooosh6937]

this would be a great movie idea omfg i would love to watch it, the book is fantastic i want it for myself

[@nellymurkthewitch]

That sounds like some lit isekai anime

[@greenteadreams5182]

It's like Alice in Wonderland, but if it was written and drawn in Medieval times. Kind of reminds me of those medieval paintings of heaven and hell.

[@benthomason3307]

those are by Hieronymus Bosch, btw

[@meatballsyrup2747]

Alice in wonderland if it wasn't intended for kids

[@forgedtofight]

Those nasty paintings scared the shit out of me as a kid... they still do tbh 😂😂

[@BVargas78]

I think the style took a bit of inspiration from Voynich manuscript as well.

[@oniongummy8969]

Bosch-like

[@kilokilo89]

“Do you remember how, when we were children, we’d lead through picture books and, pretending we could read before the children older than us, fantasize about the images we saw? Who knows, I thought to myself, perhaps unintelligible and alien writing could make us all free at once again experience those hazy childhood sensations. At the time, the quest for this new alphabet seemed to me to be the most urgent thing that had to be done. Actually, I had to invent one that suited my hand” Rome, an unspecified day in September 1976 Decodex - Luigi Serafini

[@qwertydavid8070]

When I saw the first pictures I also had a similar idea. Specially around 0:38, with the goofy egg with all the geometric lines. It immediately striked me that as ridiculous as that image may seem, it's honestly not so far off to what some actual scientific diagrams may look like. I mean, there's an entire genre of memes that center around "textbook diagrams that look like cursed images". I feel like the whole book is trying to emulate how scientific literature and visuals can seem completely alien and unintuitive to those unfamiliar with the content. In a way I guess it could be interpreted as a sort of piece of satire or a critic, illustrating how fundamental scientific knowledge that most people should now can get lost in technicalities. At the same time though, it could also just be just a genuine creative project with no neccesary deeper meaning.

[@cathoderaytube7497]

I used to have a book that had "what if" drawings of animals-- what the dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals might have evolved into had they not been wiped out by the asteroid. The name is (I know this because I just looked up the author's name) "The New Dinosaurs: An Alternate Evolution" by Douglas Dixon. It's a fascinating book.

[@suleimansghk]

dougal Dixon is the best speculative evolution author and world builder really nice you have a book of his

[@keyboardguru4212]

@@suleimansghk That’s a bit of a reach

[@Daviticus042]

*Dougal

[@AdrianvonZiegler]

This is one of the BEST things I've ever seen...

[@Flymerick]

Oh, ehy Adrian!✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧ Yeah it is, it truly does open your mind, doesn't it?

[@GeorgeMartinus]

Bruh, please... this is just the newbie level of Junji Ito's manga.

[@aicerg]

@@Flymerick not only that, this dude created his own fantasy language and has a dictionary for it.

[@sartajhanspal5604]

O Hey Adrian, nice to see you here! Does this mean this encyclopedia will inspire your next album or something like that?

[@sartajhanspal5604]

@@aicerg a dictionary for his own fantasy language? That sounds neat! Where can i check it?

[@katomiccomics202]

I can imagine the people in this dimension making an encyclopedia of our world.

[@Jenkowelten]

Hey, it's you

[@ethiopia_real]

Codex terranius

[@seantaggart7382]

Fun fact i already have done that for your world It's stored in my archives

[@ultraheaven8968]

Its gonna take them a while to hunt all those running trees and turn them into paper for the books

[@OmnipresentPotato]

Them: The people there have TWO LEGS! Crazier yet, ONE HEAD! Like, can you believe it? How can they even think? This one is just too crazy to be true, the trees there are immobile!!!!

[@BiPhBiPhBiPhBiPh]

This whole thing is surrealist eye candies, i just want to own one.

[@poptarttss]

@AnubisPatron bro it's $135 on Amazon and Barnes and Nobles! 😭

[@_S.C.P-Foundation_]

I didn't know I could beatbox until I read your user name

[@amazingabby25]

AnubisPatron I can’t find it for under 20. It’s more like 200+

[@Momo-xs8mo]

That’s crazy, my fiancé owns this. I thought it was oddly familiar

[@lastsonofktn]

@@_S.C.P-Foundation_ 😭😭😭😭😭

[@amberruby4896]

I found this In high school and was OBSESSED with it for a very long time, it just hit a very specific niche for me ...

[@TwoWholeWorms]

The writing system he created for this is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

[@reptilionsarehere]

Our world is just as whacky as the one in this book. None of us can ever really fully realize that though as it's the world we were born into.

[@BadGoyz4Life]

I always think of this line from a song, "How strange it is to be anything at all" Humans kind of just accept things in this world as being there, without really grasping how incredible it is that all of this is even happening in the first place.

[@ankou6]

So true

[@tinyflyingdragons9432]

Exactly

[@asialessy3992]

the fact that there is a youtube comment with a tokifuji profile picture that offers this kind of insight to the human perspective kind of proves your point

[@keithbarlow9701]

I've thought about this a lot. An intelligent visitor from another planet would likely be amazed by the lifeforms here. We usually aren't impressed by our surroundings because we don't know anything different. Yet if you attempt to take on an outsider's perspective, you start to appreciate how weird and amazing our world is, even if just for a brief moment.

[@DjTeZac]

Imagine, hundreds of years later, after our world has perished to ruins, aliens find Earth and this is the only book they find.

[@sarcashd3991]

HAHAHAHA YESSSS

[@Nic-og2qq]

There is a book that was found, don't remember the name, that is written in a language we have no records of. Wonder if this is one of those scenarios

[@martinskubic57]

@@Nic-og2qq voynich manuscript

[@stephaniesilvia9977]

Best troll book ever

[@ariesdemiurge]

"WOW, earthlings were bizarre!" "Think we should go? I just noticed not all trees have gone extinct..."

[@ManaAdvent]

I would like to see an English/Literature teacher actually assigning students to make a book report on this and see the results.

[@poorlydrawnrobot4218]

That would be... Interesting...

[@chromestorms7311]

Wasn't English lit but my art professor had this book. One of my favorites to draw inspiration from

[@tornado7066]

Would be nice but the book is way too expensive

[@chromestorms7311]

@@tornado7066 80 on Amazon for the paper back 130 for the 40th ed.

[@SquizzMe]

I'm a High School English Literature teacher. Absolutely not.

[@curiousgemini]

This reminds me a bit of Dr. Suess. His books has a lot of strange, but familiar animals and plants, Only, it takes things much farther.

[@C.U.N.Tahiti]

Yes! With gloved hands popping out of nowhere and strange machines and convoluted contraptions, it's very Seuss-esque

[@SirFaceFone]

Also the Voynich Manuscript

[@scaper8]

​@SirFaceFone The Voynich Manuscript was one of the inspirations according to Seraphini himself.

[@mostlyimpulsive3462]

Oh my god, I remember discovering this book when I was 12! The codex has always fascinated me, and may have contributed to my love for surreal/bizzare imagery.

[@Nightweaver1]

The amount of imagination Serafini had to come up with the ideas in this book is nothing short of incredible. The book shows you, in detail, grand designs of things that have never and CAN never be. There are very few artists out there to demonstrate the art of the absurd so completely and discretely.

[@blobvisfan666]

It's honestly quite suprising how he managed to make something so absurd, yet so... plausible. Most modern art to me really is just a complete mess, either composed of objects and concepts we all can clearly comprehend or things that just make no sense at all. While this sorta does both: It's impossible to fully understand it, yet it's still familiar with the hybrid vegetables and such. Tl;dr it's so absurd, that it's not.

[@NightmareBlade10]

@@blobvisfan666 Verisimilitude, my friend. The art of making something fictional *feel* real. It's all about establishing in-world rules, laws, and systems and following them to a T. That's one of the reasons why I love the video game series Monster Hunter, because they treat all of these giant fire breathing dragons as actually plausible biological organisms that need to eat, sleep, mate, and hunt. They even explain physiologically how their biological mechanisms work. One such example is of the lightning wolf/dragon thing called the Zinogre. In game they explain that the reason he's able to manipulate lightning is that he has hollow spines on his back that secrete a scent to attract these things called Fulgurbugs, and that they have a symbiotic relationship that enables the Zinogre to be utilize their static electricity while the Fulgurbugs are protected from predators and have access to a safe shelter/hive.

[@blobvisfan666]

@@NightmareBlade10 Yoo I love Monster Hunter, and I assume you're talking about that one video where they talk about imaginative realism? It is indeed really fascinating how every monster has their way of using elements, moving around, and survival as a whole (especially something like Anjanath ; He may not be the strongest and most ridiculous monster out there, but his ability to spew fire is very well thought out and almost believable in our world.) But this still goes a step beyond, with the unexplainable language and whatnot.

[@Mojo_Dojo333]

He just combined existing things. Uninspiring and not very creative. This book is just a bad copy cat of the Voynich Manuscript. Wow Half carrot half tomato so artistic. Dude took acid in the 80's, its not that deep.

[@Nightweaver1]

@@Mojo_Dojo333 Sigh, there's always got to be somebody like you in the comments.

[@thecandlemaker1329]

Believe it or not, you managed to guess Seraphini's intentions exactly. He said that he wanted to recreate the feelings of a child flipping through a book written in a language he doesn't understand.

[@OniZell69]

I'd say it's not a matter of he guessing Seraphini's intentions but of Seraphini being successful in envoking those feelings.

[@kravlone7612]

@@OniZell69 can't angree more

[@coconutfleetsleeper5717]

Or the reasearch that was put into the making of the video might have mattered...

[@NightmareBlade10]

Honestly I feel like this would be a great gift to give a kid. It has those same kind of wonderously fantastic, mysterious, and whimsical elements that make fictional worlds like Xanth or Harry Potter feel so utterly engaging yet foreign. This would definitely make an awesome book to keep in my library!

[@JTCGiantz56]

You could also troll the fuck out of the kid and say "Son, this is what the real world looks like".

[@gormauslander]

You may want to make sure you know what all the pictures are before giving it to a kid

[@sourgreendolly7685]

I'm the kid. 33 years old but I want it so bad lol

[@torphedo6286]

My cousin is like 3 or 4. Maybe in a few years I'll get a copy for both of us, and give it to him for Christmas if there's nothing inappropriate in it.

[@stephenmclinden6578]

Imagine if the Voynich Manuscript was the same sort of deal. Someone just decided to make a batshit crazy book that’d have people scratching their heads.

[@valley_robot]

That’s exactly what it was , it’s been proven quite a few times to be absolute nonsense , it was just for fun

[@dankachilles9356]

They can make a whole game based on this world where as a player you have the codex in your hand and it is up to you to decipher the going ons in the book by exploring the world to solve it's deeper intricacies. You start in a random part of the map and you have to explore the world and it's "inhabitants" to learn more. Just the most basic of tutorials and unabashed free exploration. As you delve deeper into the world the codex would slowly reveal itself to you via slow deciphering, leading you to the end of the mystery. It would be a great spin on the book and would give meaning and purpose to it's otherwise arbitrary writing. Just a thought.

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

Theory: He ate like 1 kg of Magic Mushrooms and visited this exact world.

[@whatsittooya7268]

Yep lmao

[@kandy5129]

dude drank a whole tub of liquid lsd to achieve this state of mind

[@benbrice9343]

Alternate title : 7 gram's to fantasy land.

[@nighthawk42069]

More like blasted off on DMT while peaking on 14 grams of mushrooms

[@benbrice9343]

@@nighthawk42069 Sounds like it would be a one way trip. Lol

[@neotower420]

I've attempted something like this as an artist, merely a collection of nonsensical pages utilizing a typewriter and my own inks. It's impossibly difficult to achieve a fraction of what this artist pulled off. And he did it with laser focused madness.

[@Kain1805]

Well tbf I'm pretty sure the artist was on some psychedelic while making this

[@patricklewis9787]

@@Kain1805 people on the internet always passing off creativity as “must’ve been drugs”

[@Rtmbloo]

@@Kain1805 It's possible but honestly some people's brains are just wired like that. Some people need psychedelics to view the world in the same lens as people like the artist, but that's not the only way in which such a creative view can exist.

[@neotower420]

@@Kain1805 I have used mushrooms, in medium dose only, for this same endeavor. It was actually a cherished experience now, I hadn't done any drugs since I was in college. I did produce some unique line work iirc, but what I remember is how at peace I felt. I had a lot of baggage at the time, emotional stress and pressure to produce something pro quality. Whatever that weight is it was eradicated that day, and I've noticed a positive strength developing in my core long before.. but more pronounced since. After that I was able to pivot into a different project all together, and I've been developing ever since. God speed to whoever reads this.

[@redefinedliving5974]

@@Kain1805 need no psychedelics to do this

[@ciaotiziocaius4899]

I've actually met Luigi Serafini (which I've been knowing for many years) the other day, and you'll never believe it but he's the most chill person ever and he's pretty humble and a lovable kind of guy

[@victorhernandez8723]

For real? You’re not making that up, are you?

[@ciaotiziocaius4899]

@@victorhernandez8723 no no I'm serious , you can find online the interview I did with him some years ago.

[@DK-tv6rk]

@@ciaotiziocaius4899 link?

[@ciaotiziocaius4899]

Also, if you have problems not finding we'll try another way

[@seanseen_]

Why wouldn't we believe it? Most people are chill

[@robertschreckenbach596]

Whats even crazier, I viewed this book as a young child!! So, yeah! That explains a lot about the art I create!!! Thanks Luigi Serafini for this amazing creation!!!

[@SonnySkye]

I had this book as a kid! My dad got it from an Italian book shop. I always thought it was messed up. I wish we kept it.

[@ezrastardust3124]

This is unironically my favourite book of all time It’s like I’m kinda in love with it We need more books like this imho

[@mckae2481]

seeing this makes me want to make one that focuses on fake video games from some alternate reality, sortof like a magazine

[@galesk344]

@@mckae2481 start with a zine!

[@n1nj4l1nk]

Try the Voynich Manuscript and the Lost Work and Writings of Dr. Spencer Black.

[@mirfan-2020]

Man someone should make a gameout of this.

[@ezrastardust3124]

@@mirfan-2020 yessss Omg I would totally play that Like an open world exploring game where the player goes on a quest through this alien world and each new discovery becomes an instalment in the codex (or something like that)

[@borimaster2412]

I need to buy a copy. IMMEDIATELY. I'm an artist, things like this absolutely captivate and fascinate me.

[@huzefaimran]

oh my god same! hey, is there a way i can talk to you? i would like to talk to someone with similar interest as me.

[@huzefaimran]

@Mathias Ljündberg ill check it out thanks for letting me know!

[@huzefaimran]

@@borimaster2412 how can i let you know my social media? is there any way?

[@Jacob42086]

Get a room, you two 🤣

[@raofeltheslinger7000]

"Trees can run away" That right there is Vietnam Next level.

[@aisforapple2494]

Made me think of the ending to Akira Kurosawa's film, 'Throne Of Blood'.

[@JustAPrinnyDood]

Imagine if this book was the only indication that life once existed on our planet

[@riversider2506]

We *NEED* this book turned into a video game *ASAP!!* 💯 🏁

[@arcosprey4811]

The Encyclopedia of Shroom Tripping: a psychedelic guide to the ether world.

[@muckyesyesindisguise3854]

So this is what my Ethernet cable draws from.

[@namedyukinne4398]

Interesting..

[@aSandwich.13]

I'm sure if you ate enough shrooms, it would all make perfect sense.

[@VelinSevven]

lol more like Salvia rather than shrooms

[@namedyukinne4398]

@@aSandwich.13 hoovy your sanvich is on the internet again!

[@hal900x]

As someone who loves the idea of alternate realities, non-Euclidian geometry, physics from other dimensions, etc this is just a great find. Thanks for this.

[@Ryquard1]

look up the Voynich Manuscript is exactly the same, but made centuries before, and historians and archaelogists are baffled with it existence as the language is lost and the content is like a dreamscape

[@cheekyrickydicky]

It's 200+ $ so there goes my motivation to purchase it.

[@eragonlindemann7236]

All geometry in the real world in non-Euclidean. Euclidean geometry is on a plane, earth is not a plane, it’s a sphere meaning all things on the planet is non Euclidean

[@hal900x]

@@eragonlindemann7236 That's literally true. I guess in the books it's used to describe dimensions that are out of place or difficult for the mind to process. For example, inside a supposedly square room there are strange curves and warps at the limits of vision, etc.

[@eragonlindemann7236]

@@hal900x the way I understand it is that lovecraft was really bad at math. He had “to weak a constitution”

[@scramjet7466]

I remember when I was a kid i used to stare at little details for hours in my house, but now nothing is new. I just look past everything and time seems 5o be running much faster. I hope this book gives my that feeling again, of something I have never seen that I can look at for a long time. Btw I downloaded a free pdf from the internet

[@daniatale6687]

Could you link the pdf please

[@sethcarden3601]

Some shrooms or acid would probably do the trick for making that new, introspective, small details, slowed time feeling happen again. Tripping always makes me feel like a kid again with this exact feeling, just make sure to do some research first to know what you’re getting yourself into if you decide to try that. Also, it probably wouldn’t hurt to read this book (pdf) during a trip for compounded wackiness and nostalgia if you think you could handle it! I love one piece btw nice profile picture :)

[@voiceactorofdovakiin]

@@sethcarden3601 You said it all

[@satyaprakash03133]

​@@daniatale6687 Just Google it , I would have given that but you tube doesn't allow links on comment.

[@oofcloof]

This book reminds me of when I was 8, looking through an old encyclopedia and being absolutely baffled by cross-sections of the human body.

[@jj_the_ent]

[this channel is one of my favorites, and re watching these older videos, yup- still as great as i remember] -also the amount of emotion you show in this entry is fantastic, and kind of necessary when making a documentary on an almost purposefully undocumentable thing this video has made me chuckle and giggle and smile every time i watch it just by the almost jolly way things are described i hope one day to make some project grand and interesting enough to be featured on this channel- but until then ill keep watching, thank you for the amazing work you do on this channel!!!

[@BalancedEarth]

Oh wow! I've never heard of this book until this video. I love looking at the illustrations and photos in encyclopedias as a kid. Weirdly enough this book is having an anniversary release in September! Definitely gonna buy it to support the weird but very oddly awesome world building! Thank you for making videos about the weird!

[@lilbill7385]

Can you preorder it

[@victorhernandez8723]

A 40th anniversary edition?

[@Pehmokettu]

I also recommend downloading Voynich Manuscript. It is similar book from 15th century. :)

[@userequaltoNull]

This seems a lot like the Voynich Manuscript.

[@Johnof1000Suns]

If I recall, the Voynich Manuscript has depictions of real world stuff intertwined with fictional imagery. The Manuscript appears to have a translatable language and actual information in it, though it wouldn’t surprise me if it was made for the same purpose as the Codex.

[@userequaltoNull]

@@Johnof1000Suns yeah, that was what I was getting at. The purpose of the manuscript.

[@JurassicJordan]

Also may have been inspired by the codex

[@andrejspecht8217]

"I did it for lulz." - some monk, 1500 A.D.

[@zwykhg364]

@@JurassicJordan You mean the other way around? The Voynich manuscript is much older than the Codex. Then again, the Voynich manuscript is also italian just as this artist is italian. I wonder if the history of the manuscript is fabricated (up until the 1900s atleast). Who knows if both these things are total fabrications by some italian artist's club pulling a century long prank on people.

[@pompe221]

2:17 Aha, so THIS explains the Fresno Nightcrawler! Clearly they are travelers from this alternate dimension.

[@hellyeah385]

You beat me to the joke

[@joannamysluk8623]

Travelers from this dimension who stopped by in Japan before going to Fresno and bought themselves some cool white hakama.

[@ivangordienko8081]

This explains full Among Us lore

[@miguelpp8342]

Serafini: Sources, you say? The voices in my head.

[@DanteYewToob]

This seems like the kind of thing that would be made by people trying to explain things through a heavy language barrier. With references and metaphors of real things, but used to describe something else you don’t understand.. “It like… ehh… Potato.. yes. Potato… with…. Ehhh… water tap, you know.. tap, from wall? For water? To drink? Yes. Tap, from water… on side of potato.” It’s amazing and I love it.

[@djay6651]

There is a theory that anything one can imagine has happened, is happening or will happen. So, if that theory is true, somewhere, the people of that world are reading a corresponding codex of our world and finding it as equally perplexing.

[@geist6364]

I like to imagine that in an alternate dimension that is exactly like the book there is someone who wrote an encyclopedia perfectly describing our world but meant to be a fiction

[@yashobantadash6462]

Meant to be reality*

[@snaggel]

@@yashobantadash6462 no what he said was right

[@lofity6668]

like imagine if some aliens in another dimension made a book covering EVERYTHING about our world

[@usis555]

It's from another dimension.

[@RipRLeeErmey]

3:08 "made out of flies, and white goo" THIS IS MY KINGDOM COME, *_THIS IS MY KINGDOM COME_*

[@amorscientiae]

Hands down to the author's dedication and unmatched imagination.

[@michaellittlefield6906]

I found an actual copy of this book and held it in my hands once. It was at Powell's books in Portland Oregon. Super rare book!

[@Sammefilms]

Reminds me of a short story called "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges. It's partly about the main character finding an encyclopedia detailing the fictional place Tlön, written by a secret society.

[@someone857]

It reminds me of when I read a book (can’t temper what it’s called) about the girl who likes Lima beans and is made fun of, and stops eating them, and have rainbow stripes and stuff.

[@stickershock66]

@@someone857 The children's book "A Bad Case of Stripes" by David Shannon! The detailed art is marvelous.

[@aeonmatter6976]

So it's like some sort of cartoon world with laws of physics that dosent make sense to us but is explainable by that worlds "science"

[@simonwesterlund2151]

Yes

[@benthomason3307]

no, not "science", just science. it just works very differently from our own. like how the language of folks from another country works differently from your own.

[@benthomason3307]

@sprock yes, but you would still refer to it as a language, not as a "language"

[@benthomason3307]

@sprock ah, I see

[@derchozenvun83]

Mario.

[@theegod2141]

Plot twist: that world is actually real and the author got isekaid and returned to earth after saving that world, now he’s writing everything he knows about that world so he wouldn’t forget the adventure he went through.

[@earlchester591]

Good theory

[@allencarlo6798]

Yep, this is the legit one

[@cheesecake7159]

Isekaid to itou junji world

[@Sabo991]

Author: "Oh yeah, got isekaied! Time to be overpowered as hell, get a harem and beat the Demon L- WHAT THE FUCK!?"

[@kelechiojobor933]

Nice

[@planescaped]

3:30 now that's just a picture of a regular politician.

[@brycejohnston1740]

This is exactly like a Jorge Luis Borge short story - 'Tlön Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' in the book Ficciones. It starts with the narrator finding a reference to a country he's never heard of and can't find other reference to, and it goes down a rabbit hole to basically the encyclopedia of another universe.

[@steamachest2077]

3:35 this looks more like a war than a party, notice the huge divide between the blue and red people, plus the red people with shields, as well as what seems to be their version of a tank on the bottom right of the image. I'm only pointing this out so people don't see it through the wrong lenses, as this gives us a strange but possibly decent idea of how wars are fought in this strange world.

[@joannamysluk8623]

Maybe it's something in between? Like a knight tournament or something?

[@steamachest2077]

@@joannamysluk8623 It's hard to really confirm something like that, there's more things happening there that would indicate a war rather than a tournament. Mainly because of the shields and the weird cylinder tank things, like, who brings armored vehicles to a knight tournament?

[@D-ie2xj]

It’s the hubb-ǔœn jóńgo Duboidl of the gweeeblogoniuslokono

[@christianguzman4688]

Future historian and archeologists are going to love this one.

[@Ryquard1]

just like the Voynich Manuscript

[@iii-cmarolenajr.edgardo1910]

After watching this I kinda have a feeling that Voynich Manuscript was written with this kind of idea in mind.

[@AnNguyen-es4kx]

Glad I'm not the only one

[@Spagyr]

This might be a more impressive work.

[@ayebee4718]

This makes my inner child happier than she has ever been 🥺🤍 ... the book honestly would’ve helped me heal a lot quicker through my traumas - i can’t explain it. I just know i’ve always found myself gravitating towards myths/otherworldly beings & things/the unknown .... basically any and everything unknown to humanity or not commonly seen by the naked eye of humans. My sketchbook was even filled with weird images such as a few in this authors’ book 😭 it all just brings me so much peace for some reason. i love it.

[@DeeKate]

I got to look at a copy of this at a local bookstore. I wanted it so badly. It was stunning in person. Each page was its own work of art. Wish I had the money to buy it at the time.

[@leaf1885]

I had this big set of books as a kid basically explaining several aspects of the world (world history, how people live in different countries, animals, transportation, world politics etc) with pages full of text, illustrations and pictures. I remember how magical it was to go through them again and again, each time understanding more and more about the world. I would give everything to sit in my bean bag chair and flip through these books for the first time again. On rainy days I would do this for hours and learn so much. This book here is probably the closest an adult can get to that feeling😂

[@MightyReeN]

This reminds me of an anime called Kaiba from 2008. I highly recommend it. In a world where memories can be stored and transferred as data. Who knows where this amnesiac will end up! It's on Amazon prime

[@712coquiguy]

This looks like something an adventurer would bring back from the Feywilds.

[@abigailmahoney1226]

LOLLLL YEAH

[@TheGudeGamer]

Yep. I agree.

[@vivekishere]

I like how universal the feeling you mentioned at the end is !!!

[@GrumpyHobo]

You can tell there was some inspiration from Hieronymus Bosch. If you liked the art in this book, I recommend looking up Bosch. He was a dutch painter from The early 1500's. His art is super intriguing. Look up "Garden of Earthy Delights". The hell scene in this piece looks like it could have come out of this book.

[@DeadKavaiol]

By "Encyclopedia Of A World That Doesn’t Exist" people usually would understand something like WoW or any other larger game's wiki. This video honestly surprised me.

[@josel5831]

LOL, it looks like an alien found one of our encyclopedia and we are looking at it through their eyes.

[@Jamgelo]

"Discovering something that doesn't exist"

[@theonly6blake911]

Surfing tidal waves

[@Wince_Media]

@@theonly6blake911 creating nanobots

[@mikaelaperez7276]

@@Wince_Media or looking at frankensteins brain

[@swordofglass9409]

@@mikaelaperez7276 "It's over here!"

[@swordofglass9409]

@@FriendlyNeighborhoodCrusader Painting a continent

[@Based_Face]

I genuinely believe that this man received inspiration from the Voynich Manuscript. Look it up, no one knows who wrote it and it's full of illustrations of alien plants..

[@elineeugenie5224]

Beautiful.. I slowed the speed all the way down and turned off the sound, to really look at the images. Worth it. Then watched again at normal speed to hear the story. 👍

[@anomalocaris7436]

some of the art about the "humans" looks like one of those stroke attack simulator images

[@lagsmith]

this book is in actual fact a hair dryer repair manual from planet 359x zeta in the Eyrius arm of Galaxy C5017320963, you just read it upside down and in the wrong light frequency lol

[@IC1101-Capinatator]

Well what light frequency DO you read it at?

[@oweeb5909]

This terrifies me, imagine living in a word like this, there's just something so unsettling about it.

[@nibirbaishnabchannel2125]

the place is so wrong weird ugly creepy uncanny and different

[@kian-jay]

i just got the 40th anniversary in the mail today. i’m watching this video again bc i’m too excited to open it

[@MinecraftKing-nd1zo]

This is amazing. Whether it was Serafinis intent on making this hook a master piece or not it really is. And it really does remind of being a child and flipping through your parents books without having the slightest clue what they were, but the only difference is that this world in the book is not existent, whereas our world we see everyday, even as children. But it’s still so cool, like imagine living in this made up universe. Just amazing

[@KentuckyFriedChildren]

I love these weird books that make you question reality. A good one is “The Zombie Survival Handbook”. The book is written in a fairly believable fashion, because it goes against the pop culture depiction of zombies and explains things in a way that makes logical sense. You come away wondering if zombies might just exist.

[@Ezper-2099]

imagine if this is the last proof of humanity that aliens would access after we're all extinct

[@nekoeko500]

Someone needs to write a book on that

[@bladeriders]

This is the kind of stuff that future historians will see and think we were all crazy amorphic beings

[@birdy5516]

We have this book- it’s absolute beautiful. I remember flipping through it when I was like 12, such a wonderful book

[@naoeveel]

Its coming.

[@naoeveel]

HAHA

[@kaustavkumar3060]

Thanks for making &/or posting this video

[@yveglitch9154]

I actually relate to this.. Since in my childhood I always take out encyclopedia books just to see all different kinds of pictures like houses animals especially the Stone Crystals though not understanding what it written on it. Just flipping and flipping just looking for pictures I’ve never been seen before. 🤩 bring back my childhood days.. I can see why I’m so interested reading books

[@angellazarus]

You're right its like reading a book when I was a kid. All I looked at was the pictures and not being able to understand the words. The book brings forth feelings of wonder and curiosity, I felt when I was a kid.

[@nakenmil]

This reminds me of the graphic novel "Arrival", which also kinda attempts to make you feel like an immigrant to a strange culture by making the place where the main character arrives completely alien (even if it is likely an allegory for the US).

[@briannawarren4174]

"The Arrival" by Shaun Tan? I looked it up because you mentioned it and I'm really enjoying looking through it 🙂 It has such a unique texture, I love it when stories are told or worlds are described without words.

[@elizabethacosta1667]

You may also like the world of Iblard created by Naohisa Inoue.

[@mondkalb9813]

It reminds me of the animated movie "Fantastic Planet" by René Laloux: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2ivpoGJfdGDmdE Similiar weird worlds can be found in "Gandahar" (which was butchered into "Light Years") and "Time Masters"

[@satyaprakash03133]

It is a fun book and has the potential to make you explore the labyrinthine nature of imagination. I got it as a gift from mama when I was 14 .

[@jakerougier640]

4:35 that's also what I was thinking when looking at this book it makes you feel young not being able to understand a old enciclopedia

[@thetuerk]

I am proud to say that I joined the pre-500-subs gang!

[@kajolika417]

Yes! I subbed to him when it was still in 200!

[@Wince_Media]

Great for you! I subscribe to him pre 5k, but he still has less subscribers than I do

[@sumvivus6199]

i love when people express their creativity like this

[@adude8424]

If you think this is weird, just remember that virus literally looks like a robot under the microscope

[@nibirbaishnabchannel2125]

we know it's weird

[@austincde]

Little probes :)

[@michaelmcfarland1716]

Nanites

[@nibirbaishnabchannel2125]

virus looking like robot is even weirder!a lot!

[@suspiciousfigure3096]

Bacteriophages are an oddball, they’re an example of this.

[@enneri]

I once stayed in a hostel in Saint-Petersburg, and there were several shower stalls in the bathroom, that had pages of this book as a wallpaper. And honestly, they scared the crap out of me anytime a took a shower (especially late at night). Sorry, but while I appreciate the great effort and creativity put into this work, I find most of the pics genuinely disturbing and scary :(

[@movementvisuals_]

I love this book - a great representation of the imaginations dynamic; also a symbolic reference towards the part of our inner child's mind which is so easy to naturally lose going into adulthood... At least that's how I enjoy seeing it - Codex Seraphinianus still remains one of my favorite things to look at and practice wondering calmness; would absolutely recommend to other souls.. Everyone who sees, will imagine something different without accompanying truth - the beautiful endless diversity of imagination.. A treasure completely different among every mind...

[@TheKingofbrooklin]

3:45 It seems that Rick & Morty took some inspirations from the books art.

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

3:10 Imagine making contact with beings from another reality and they pull up in one of these

[@yazekami4656]

By the looks of it Its used for agriculture since i saw vehicles like this most of the time in our town

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

@@yazekami4656 My man over here with the deep lore

[@yazekami4656]

@@halfmettlealchemist8076 i mean not exactly like the one in the drawing But the mechanisms should be the same the style is different but works the same

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

@@yazekami4656 I figured that was what you meant. It's still really cool that you're able to make these connections.

[@wef6146]

Da whip

[@rocknrollmandolin]

This book feels like home. I was meant to live here.

[@rocknrollmandolin]

To the guy that commented, yeah I know what dmt is, And given I freaked out at a 200 mg edible,I think im good lol. Granted I was laying down in the dark having never taken that much before, but still.

[@diontirta3510]

0:38 technical drawing of an egg

[@manuelnobre6681]

The book is absolutely brilliant in its imagery and otherworldly imagination. It inspires in me such a sense of wonder and awe. What it's meant to tell us, I think, is that us humans should be humble. We're so proud of our intellect and scientific achievements, aren't we. We need to have answers for everything. Well, we don't. Luckily we have geniuses like L. Serafini to fill in the gaps.

[@NicFarra]

The last image is my favourite in this book. Harvesting that grain looks like the work of guildmasters.

[@captainhat760]

Imagine aliens discovering our planet and this book being the only thing left to study our history off of

[@amog8202]

Oh no

[@GaiaGoldSNK]

Oh yes

[@TheGudeGamer]

@@amog8202 no oh yeah

[@Apollo_Dionysus_Hermes]

Yes. That was the same thought I had when this ended, all civilization gone, except for one child who managed to survive and this was the only thing connecting them to humanity they could find. They manage to interpret it.as a real language and understand the book and base their life around it. Oh my gods, I need to start writing this sounds like.the COOLEST show/book!

[@theskylookslikeyourmomitsb5112]

The drawing reminds me of Adventure Time for its randomness yet fascinating and unique

[@krismontykrismonty]

Beautiful, I think we've all got the potential to access these places and things but we've forgotten so much. Reminds me a little of Clive Barker's Weave World. Nice share. Cheers

[@blairwitch2004]

I wish this book wasn’t so expensive. Originally copies of this book go for as high as $600