I'm slowly picking up that goal I mentioned in the post below. I am on a small mission to capture pictures of every area that looks liminal. This is the photo of my staircase, looking down from the space between 2nd and 3rd floor. I gave the saturation a minor edit and increased a bit of darkness. That knife shinning up was not planned, but definitely added a sinister vibe.
Obviously one single post about Liminal spaces would not have been enough for me to convey just how deep my thoughts go about them. For many people, it's just the idea of random endless buildings existing in a parallel universe that may or may not be infested with creatures. To me, it's the "why", and the "who". Why do these places exist? And who built them?
The scariest thought that crosses my mind, is the idea of these buildings being sentient. Nobody built them, they built themselves. If you look at some videos about the Backrooms, you can see that every version of them consist of buildings that look normal, but start to make no sense the deeper you go. You would walk down a perfectly normal hallway, and enter a room that makes no earthly sense: a hole in the wall that leads you down, but it's actually bringing you up. Tall rooms with no structural purpose, or stairs that lead you nowhere.
These, more or less, "little" errors are the reason I start to wonder if these buildings are sentient. Similar to how the aliens in "Annihilation" tried to re-create bits and pieces of our world to study them...
but resulted in bizarre creations, and destruction.
It's very scary to think that these buildings could be sentient, and are building themselves based on the little knowledge they have about our structures. But then the question is, how do we end up there? Or why? Could it be that the walls between parallel universes are very thin, and we just accidentally fall through? Do these buildings know that we're roaming around in them?
Perhaps the reason this topic feels so personal to me, is because, my whole life I have looked at objects with an odd feeling of "they're aware". All items are aware of their existence, they're just... asleep, or fulfilling their purpose. The fridge is keeping food from being spoiled, my monitors are displaying as they should, my coke bottles are keeping the liquid inside, and they are aware of it. It's hard to explain without sounding like a nut-job, but, I guess in a way, I've always looked at items, and buildings as "aware". I swear I'm not high.
Even when my mother and I are discussing the house we are currently renting, I avoid speaking badly about it. After all, it's allowed us to live inside it without collapsing, freezing, or burning. It feels... chill.
Having this little blog section to spill my brain on, honestly feels like therapy sessions I never knew I needed.
Have you ever looked at a building, hallway, or a room, and thought - "I've been there before"? A sight that looks awfully familiar, but you know for certain that the familiarity is not from this lifetime. Dreamcore and liminal spaces are the two things that directly trigger these feelings for me, and it is oddly addictive.
A "Liminal space", from my understanding, is a place that is between was, and will be. A state of transitioning. Hallways, corridors, and streets are popular examples of liminal spaces, as they are the path you take to get from here, to there. Liminal spaces are directly between "here", and "there". It's between 1 and 2. And between 3 and 4.
The unsettling feeling I get, are mostly caused by the idea of these places existing right next to me. They have no doors, no entrances, and terrifyingly enough, no exits.
Based on a CreepyPasta that created the iconic "Backrooms" story back in 2019 on a Reddit thread - there are no clear ways of entering these places. You simply no-clip into them. Imagine a sudden glitch that teleports you into one of these places. While I find this interesting, I also believe that your chances of visiting these places are bigger than a possible no-clip. I believe every time you lay down to sleep, you end up in a liminal space. I find sleeping to be most liminal thing a person can do - you close your eyes, and you transition from one hour, to another, sometimes with nothing but a split second of darkness, or hours of weird dreams.
While your body is experiencing time in it's traditional fashion, your mind does not see, feel, or care about time. Sometimes, you dream something that feels like hours, but you wake up only 30 minutes after you've fallen asleep. Or, sometimes you dream of something that feels like only 10 minutes, but you wake up 7 hours after you've fallen asleep.
Liminal spaces are known to have their own time, or, no time at all. Which is why I think the aesthetic "Dreamcore" goes hand-in-hand with Liminal spaces. One of my goals in life, is to go on a little hunt, and take pictures of every place that radiates Liminal space energy.
Maybe I will one day, and post them here!
Either way, I am sure you would get a better idea of dreamcore and liminal spaces if you google them yourself, as I certainly can't explain them better than how I FEEL ABOUT THEM.
Here are a couple of channels I love the most when it comes to this topic!
https://www.youtube.com/@lostinthehyperverse