+152 Liminal spaces are cool, comforting, and nostalgic, amirite?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

They don't do anything for me at all. I've looked at a lot of this stuff because the concept is interesting, but none of it has ever made me feel any kind of way. I just see a hallway or a lobby or whatever, like any other.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's the uncanny valley. Thinks that look mostly normal but there's something off about them that triggers unease. Most pictures of liminal spaces are incredibly creepy, and it's not the fear that something will jump out at you. It's your brain frantically trying to make sense of something that's not normal

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Isn't that what the backrooms are based from? Fell into that rabbit hole on YouTube with various creators, I'm obsessed lol. Some are scary, some are so peaceful and like a dream of some sort depending on the creator or video.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I also don't find them creepy. You might feel comforted being neither here nor there. What is behind you is complete, you cannot yet see what is before you. Everything and nothing is possible in the same moment.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I've never understood them either. I don't know that they make me feel peaceful, but they don't make me feel the way I think they're supposed to make me feel.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I'm not sure what's supposed to be comforting or creepy about an empty room. Probably one of those things I'm not capable of understanding.

by Anonymous 1 year ago