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
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