I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be some hypothetical monster who stalks you throughout these maps. Just watching you from a distance as you talk to yourself about every aspect of the map you like or dislike to an audience the monster can't see. Someone should make a liminal map like this, big and spooky with dark corners. In that map, there's a single NPC who wanders around and as he does, he slowly peeks around corners, slowly opens doors searches every room, pointing and getting excited for certain things and getting annoyed by others. The NPC appears to be talking to himself the whole time, exclaiming with his hands. If you, the player, are seen by this NPC, he'll get scared, but if you can sneak up behind him, you'll find that he's actually just playing ("speaking") audio from one of these Liminal GMOD explore videos.

I spawned custom NPCs to follow me so I was able to not go insane playing this. It's hard to stay scared when Minecraft Kirby is following you around as your pal.

Fun fact: the liminal hotel is actually a real hotel. Is the heathrow airport hotel in London

I think he used cool colors to signify death, like how an apocalypse is a death of society, this is the death of the dream world.

37:25 It's not even the map that scared me this time. Its just the sudden loud crackling sound and you holding your breath that scared the absolute shit out of me.

Some suggestions gm_abstraction_extended - a very large resort that includes a lot of elements of liminal spaces in the brightest and most positive environments an_arcade - a tortured extremely abstract and liminal facade of an arcade. Extremely small. gm_smog_city - abandoned underground settlement that feels like it was never made for people gm_beta_citadel - an endless maze of pipes, chains, catwalks, and bathroom tiles containing an alien prison and the Consul of City 17's seat of power. Stitched together from multiple beta maps.

The Librarian bumping his microphone was the biggest jumpscare in this map.

I love this guy so much. Something about his little rants and timid quiet voice is just... it feels like listening to an introvert who is really passionate about something.

23:11 the way that the music started the moment you acknowledged that hidden door made me start to panic a little bit.

With every new GMOD video I'm amazed by how an almost 20 year old engine still looks so damn good when it comes to industrial outdoor and indoor areas. There's just something about Source that no other engine or technology has managed to reach yet, that makes it feel so photorealistic for me compared to today's engines -- if you don't look to close obviously. I can't point out what it is exactly but I feel like it's mostly the sky- and ambient lighting and maybe the color-grading. Today's engines can throw as many raytraced technologies in their scenes as they want but while they look incredibly beautiful, it just doesn't match the photorealism that Source has for me. Maybe it's because the real world isn't always "beautiful"...

This is the only content from this channel that I don’t go through comment section just because I’m scared - Instead I keep watching it because The Librarian is the best with this content!

When you got to the liminal hotel part, those fences were facing outward. They were meant to keep something _out_

“This door is just bricked up.” 😳

Almost every horror map for gmod has "V2" in it's name

I had a dream of a liminal space lately. It was of a store of some sort. However the place was well lit and in use by employees going on about their business. I got a bit lost but wasn't scared. It had more of a fantastical feeling than unnerving. Just thought it was interesting how a few adjustments can change the tone of an area.

This is always so interesting to me. The creepy atmosphere making you think something is there, but nothing is.

43:04 When talking about how it's an RP map and how you could play it. Imagine it as a walking tour where everyone walks together and talks about how the area they are looking at makes them feel. Maybe have a player "monster" that no clips and moves stuff around how it wasnt before, perhaps if it touches you, you are transported to a different area in the map away from the group.

This reads to me as either a past or future of the first Liminal Space map. Future being the hotel was stripped down to a factory and it became quite apocalyptic with loads of prison-type of places and areas. Past being the factory and prison-like areas being removed and everything being remodeled to be more “friendly”. Idk, that’s just me tho

These liminal space maps are creepy.

My interpretation from this video: this map feels like someone that's trapped in the liminal space version of this map suddenly dreams of reality, their wishes to escape. It tries to make it more linear as the brain tries to apply logic in an already too absurd enviorment. But it ends up making the dreamer remember that place is a prison, and the fears of not knowing whats outside manifest "subconciously". 'Is everything ok? What about my family? Why does no one contact me? Is the world gone?' idk.

37:30 Sorry 'bout that. They can be a bit clumsy sometimes. They won't act hostile unless provoked, so just don't acknowledge them.

5:10 He really turned into Venom for a few seconds

I'll leave a bit of a tip if anybody want's to do a bit of secret hunting. The large room at 28:17 has the way to get to the maze at 45:00 which can take you to the city (if you can find the right way that is). If you want to spoil/or skip the hunting, you can find answers on the maps workshop page in the pinned discussion.

I don't want to give my dream ideas but I can't also stop watching

Thanks for checking it out! I always wanted to imagine gm_liminal_space in such theme, and, you know, i like to turn dreams to reality :D

I hate that I'm terrible at watching videos like these since I get scared really easily, but they are so good and interesting I try to tough it out

I had the feeling of when the map like this it feels it's more eerie and different to other one, it's like there are same things on Places You've seen in your Dreams map that Lib played before. This is why i like this type of content in Garry's Mod and Horror. Also, i did playing a Add-on campaign for Left 4 Dead 2 called Silent Hill, i get the feeling of being scared especially being alone when i started playing it. But yeah, i think Garry's Mod is the best game i've ever played since childhood days

Video idea: set up a gmod sever from some rp maps or maybe a gm or two to document how people would use areas and interview some to ask what they find scary or unnerving

Oooh, your commentary is so good Librarian! And this is one of the first times I've actually deeply related to you. I've had SO MANY dreams of revisiting a familiar place (specifically schools; like in your example) and I've never understood your examples better. It's such an eerie feeling!

Librarian's house confirmed haunted.

The red zone had such awful, rank vibes that I could feel my chest pounding and almost had an anxiety attack. 10/10

I find it a little funny that this version of the map feels less creepy. Like all the default debris, fire particles, & bloody bits makes it feel more at home in the source world... like I'm just playing normal HL2 or TTT instead of some horror map, but then at other points tbh the rust & orange redish fog makes it feel like a silent hill game we never got.

In my dreams as I kid I used to hear the jaws theme whenever something freaky happened. I never questioned why I could hear music in my head. Dream logic.

17:52 that finger man...

rp_Aneurism_V2 what a top level name for a rp map

bro, honestly ily because of your voice and comments. idk what else made me obsessed with your videos.

I think of this more as a version of liminal space, that got bought out, they fixed it up, and then abandoned it once again, leading to places that look familiar, but are different.

First vid I saw was rp-ashville and I have been watching ever since. Love your vids

When you said 'I wonder what kind of activities you could get up to here,' I'm not going to say what I had in another tab.

This as if someone went in, and began renovations but then, it was raided by something and/or someone, and so whoever was renovating it had to change their plans to deal with the threat, militarizing it, as well as turning parts of it into a prison.

I love the liminal space maps you explore. They're a lot scarier without the need for any actual scares at all and I'm totally here for it!

To me the way these dust particles were floating in the warm orange colors in some areas in the original map gave me a really good sensation. It instantly felt familiar and tranquil. I truly felt like I'm alone. But these soulless and dead cold colors give me an on edge feeling, like someone or something is watching my every move.

Your boulder vs. boiler “rambling” makes a lot of sense to me. I understand the dream logic behind it and there is a poetic sense of change in there. For example, boulders are part of nature and boilers are part of industry, which can suggest the theme of nature vs. industry or natural vs. artificial. I think of it almost like an environmental metaphor where we see the natural world reclaiming a space that was once the domain of industry or modernity. Another perspective could be that the space was built to accommodate both concerns of industry and nature, which are frequently seen as these fundamentally conflicting concepts or realities. This is quite the threshold between those ideas. There’s a lot we can think about as a result of these spaces, which is awesome.

My god those hands at around 5 or so minutes in once you get into that naturally lit area. The fact that they turn to monochromatic colors is... terrifying really. alongside ominous even tho really it's just lighting derpiness.

A new video epic

Before you know it bro your gonna have a million subs bro. You make me have a better day and I thank you man.

thank you so much for exploring our map♥️

This map proves you can have literally no scares or triggers and still feel terrified. But man, I would have died if anything, even a light going out happened during the later periods of exploration when im used to the idea that there isn't any scripted events

I love this new feature on youtube that tells you the hotspots that people watch and there just massive spike whenever you point out something that you might have saw, so we all check back and see if we missed anything

You just seem like a cool down to earth dude to play games with, my man

Some suggestions There’s an half life 2 mod called the sun vanished, it’s based on the Twitter arg with the same name. It’s a really good mod I highly suggest you play it

37:30 Just a normal day at librarian's house

ooh vr exploring looks comfy

I remember as a kid I had a dream where I was in this pure white “house” that was completely empty besides one room that had those kids toy blocks that have letters or number on them colored red,green and blue. It also had the blues clues chair sitting in the center which was surrounded by maybe 4-6 of the pre-described blocks. The rest of the house was made up of the empty rooms with extraordinarily tall ceilings I would guesstimate about 15-20 ft high and the room could vary between gigantic and regular sized. I had this dream multiple times and in only one instance did I ever actually get outside the house and outside the house looked a lot like that one scene in Beetle Juice when the husband and wife ghosts try to leave their house and it’s a barren desert with weird fauna. I never was able to explore it though as I guess I was to scared or maybe locked to the house. My grandma has a picture of me from when I was young and in the picture I am in what looks like a pure white room and I’m leaning on those child cubes I mentioned earlier and these were also huge probably 4ftx4ftx4ft. The weird part is I have no recollection of taking that picture and I have what I would consider a above average memory even some from very young years but I have absolutely no clue when or where I took that photo(I was probably 5-6yrs old). It’s weird to look back at all this knowing what I know now about liminal spaces. I will try and have that dream again and explore more. If I do eventually have the dream again and can explore more I will reply to this comment with what I find interesting.

The first version was like a building just finished and ready for use. This map is when the building is abandoned during a war and the fighting has moved through the area not to long ago.

(literally finds something horrific that just happened) "welp... nothing to be done about it now."

I was half expecting to hear you talking to yourself, with the audio specially tracked, in the end card as your character model came into view and then walked off screen, lol

Hi Gary! Thanks for the mod!

the hotel is something i really wanna see in real life, like i am right near it (begium) so i could just go to london one day and be there!

You are super underrated, keep up the great content!

I feel like the cool colours of the business/train hub/station is designed to be somewhat chilled out if only to make the other areas even more daunting like why would you go through the grimy blood-stained door when you can stay safe here? and even then you're still compelled to travel around the place

I love this already and I’m only 1minute it

I appreciate the fact that your "hands" are connected to arms, but what *_ugly_* hands they are!

Dear mr. Librarian Have you ever dreamt these places? Or any kind of place you've experienced in VR? I've heared VR can induce you dreams, that's why Im asking.

Always love seeing these maps! Interesting concept 🤔 I think both have cool premises though definitely different

42:21 as soon as he entered the prison I thought "wow, this really reminded me of silent hill" and then not even 3 seconds later he says "it reminds me of the prison in silent hill 2"- like that's what I am saying!

The environment you found yourself in @23:41 is how my brain renders the sky in dreams: clouds but no sky, with fullbright turned on. Sometimes there will be a ring of blue sky along the horizon but it quickly fades to inky blackness. During the dream itself it doesn’t bother me, but I find myself a bit unnerved when remembering my dreams from the previous night.

Liminal is at an all time high!

He sounds like the daily dose of internet guy

THIS WAS MY FAVORITE MAP AND NOW ITS GONE along with the limital space

37:29 *GIVE ME SOME WARNING NEXT TIME, YOU GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK XD*

imagine, you finish vr recording. you go to take your headset off. you were never wearing it.....

WHAT KIND OF DREAMS IS MY GUY HAVING BRUH

4:37 that's your own bloodflow in your ears that you're hearing

Every time talks of dreams begin, I'm just like "damn, wish I could relate" Usually my dreams (on the very rare chance they consciously occur) aren't even about me, they're totally self contained stories, with plots that I wish I could remember for more than 2 minutes after waking up. I wish I had spookier dreams

I click so fast whenever you make a gmod vr liminal video

Dang I just played this map

37:29 i was watching this with headphones and that scared the hell out of me

finally another gmod vr video from the librarian,time to get popcorn

Wonder if you have a poltergeist haunting your house......

bro at 37:27 you gave me a heart attack with your hand coming from the right side and the sudden crackling noise

Another underrated KZfaqr under 100k subs but need more just few GM KZfaqrs anymore

the city at the end reminds me of the city in the slenderman must die city game.

It took me a while, but I finally learned how to find, and setup Garry's Mod, and as many of the liminalesque type maps as I could find. I'm legally blind, so it's proving difficult to work with many of the interfaces, as they have tiny text. At least G-Mod allows the use of Windows Magnifier, so I'm slowly, sort of figuring stuff out. Haven't figured out how to use the product without the big laser gun in view, though. By the way, have you given much thought to reading for Recording House for the Blind, or volunteering to read at your state's Public Broadcasting Service's Radio Reading Service for the Blind (subcarrier)? You have a very good broadcast quality voice, and if you read as well as you describe things in these games, you'd be a valuable asset in the mass communications field. NPR would likely pick you up, once you've got enough experience. Anyhoo, I'll be checking out your Discord, soon. Thanks for the video. :)

some of the ambience reminds me of myhouse

You should explore rp tricity, I always got weird feelings when simply walking around the map. Maybe you will to

Gm_liminalspace got an update where a large burning recreation of the bus stop area can be found under the map it lads to prison cells and then a field with a log house with no furniture. It’s really weird.

I just recently got into a game from 2012 called Alan Wake’s American Nightmare and its really dark and atmospheric, been great so far.

I actually jumped out of my skin at 37:29

I think you'd really like the game, Who's Lila. It has a really unnerving atmosphere but still has some form of calmness to it.

Oh god that's actually unsettling lol 37:52

Funny enough, I seek out liminal space maps for npc fights, but each time I do, I prep myself to get freaked out

I think this version is like the character waking up from his dream in a similar area or finding the place outside his dream, there's also a hole in the roof at the start of the map.

The map may be retextured with some add-ons and changes and the original map gives nothing but creepy vibes, but seeing the old location bring an odd comfort feeling.

Yeah, sometimes I had dreams about me in my parent's house or my house and suddenly leaving the room causes me to go in a random place or location without even noticing or caring about it and thinking that it's normal.

37:19 You're my frien now, we're having soft tacos later

10:19 This looks exactly like scene from Irreversible

Oh Great Librarian why do you search for dreams? Youll only find the horrors in reality's seams. Oh Great Librarian, the stonecold halls await. No matter how hard you try to escape, they are your fate.

I am super down to rp in this map, players just claiming any of those vacant rooms, and instead of police you have enforcers of like a chieftain based on the prisons, trying to impose order on this chaos

37:43 VR's getting more immersive!