The True Meaning Of Liminal Spaces

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Liminal spaces are the places in our world where reality feels altered. But why does it feel this way? What is the true meaning of liminality? In this video we take a deep dive into liminal spaces and understand why things are liminal.
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Earthbound- Otherworldly Foe
Acetantina - Foot Cramp
Acetantina - Temple of Null
Yume 2kki OST - Abandoned Apartments (Lower Apartments)
Broken Reality OST - Catcoin exterior
Acetantina - Body Parts
Aquazone BGM Track03
Art of Balance Wii U - World F Music
Ape Escape 3 OST - Bootown (Part 2)
Yume Nikki OST - Candle World
Earthbound - 13 Hidden Track
AMONG US - OST - MAIN THEME SONG [HQ]
Super Mario 64 - Merry-Go-Round
EarthBound - The Place [HQ]
Sonic CD (USA) Music Boss
Acetantina - Gunk
Silent Hill OST - Down Time
Soup 0.9 - don09
Yume 2kki OST -Cosmic World
Soup 0.9 - sup01
LSD Dream Emulator Music Kyoto - Ambient - B
Spore Galactic Adventures Soundtrack - Echoes Underwater
Undertale OST - But nobody came.
Yume 2kki OST - Realistic Cave
Hypno K.K. (Aircheck) - Animal Crossing New Leaf Music
Soup 0.9 - rua03
Ape Escape 3 OST - Miracle Ninja
Subnautica Soundtrack - River Spooks
OMORI OST - 132 Fleur
EarthBound - A Flash of Memory [HQ]
Yume Nikki OST - Abandoned Desert Town
Earthbound - Giygas Intro
Soup 0.9 - Tar02
Yume Nikki OST - Rooftop Rhythm
LSD Dream Emulator Music - Bright Moon Cottage - Ambient - A
Yume Nikki OST - Subway Station
Soup 0.9 - tar01
Yume Nikki OST - Block World
Fortnite - Original Main Menu Music [Theme OST VGM Soundtrack] (Old-10Min Edition)
Broken Reality - Domo Paradisso Theme
Yume Nikki OST - Musical Tiles World
LSD Dream Emulator Music - Bright Moon Cottage - Ambient - A
Soup 0.9 - don04
Soup 0.9 - rua02
C418 - Chirp (Minecraft Volume Beta)
Earthbound- Battle Against a Weird Opponent
OMORI OST - 021 Sugar Star Planetarium
Yume 2kki OST - Forest
Space Funeral - RPG2000 BGM (Menu Theme)
Super Mario 64 - Haunted House
#0 shell - Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion [OST]
Yume Nikki OST - Entering the Dream World
Ape Escape 3 OST - Fantasy Knight
Ape Escape 3 OST - Super Monkey Throw Stadium
Table of Contents:
0:00 Intro
0:47 Finding a Definition
2:38 The Feeling of Liminality
4:40 Emptiness
5:02 Conditions
5:33 No Exits
6:08 Loss of the Intended Purpose
6:59 No Purpose At All
8:39 Altered Reality
10:08 Dreams
10:39 Nostalgia
11:34 The True Meaning of Liminal Spaces
11:58 Outro
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@PolygonDonut Жыл бұрын

If you want a download of every liminal image i have and even more aesthetic images check out this twitter post, it has a link to the google drive: twitter.com/pongondonute/status/1583146487764033536?s=20&t=48GGEmZxVgD2B02B45Ttfw

@ARealLemonLime Жыл бұрын

Ik I already responded on twitter, but thanks for the download! These will help with some ideas I have :D

@Ra1ndr0p Жыл бұрын

me waiting to be level 5 for dont break the chain in the discord server: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa

@quindexreal Жыл бұрын

wait 3 days ago what the

@ThatBuckskin-Frank Жыл бұрын

Hehehehehehehehe downloadin time

@carterkruse6471 Жыл бұрын

does anyone know the song at 7:20

@dazcarrr 2 жыл бұрын

this series of explaining and analysing weird internet aesthetics/ image archetypes is really great, would love to see more

@RocketDCP 2 жыл бұрын

Yes i agree

@ihearttoast8162 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@martinsobek5770 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@V0ID_X5 2 жыл бұрын

I 2nd this!

@spingleboygle 2 жыл бұрын

me too! I like these vids

@CG64Mushro0m 2 жыл бұрын

if you've ever just gone a day without sleeping then went outside, you know exactly how liminal that feels

@Periwinkleaccount 2 жыл бұрын

Of course, because dawn is between days. So, it is, by definition, liminal.

@horrorhabit8421 2 жыл бұрын

That is so true!

@ethanschule5524 2 жыл бұрын

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@CG64Mushro0m 2 жыл бұрын

@@Periwinkleaccount no thats not what i meant...

@Periwinkleaccount 2 жыл бұрын

@@CG64Mushro0m I know.

@Killerkraft975 Жыл бұрын

I live in UK and most places don't seem liminal no matter where you would be. I went on vacation to america and everything felt so surreal and odd. It triggered alot of liminal space feelings because of how larger and spacous everything is.

@user-se6kk2wi6x 7 ай бұрын

I don't know, my local library in Reading feels quite liminal and unnerving, like it's been stuck in the early 2000s.

@Alveda_Killfrickle4162 3 ай бұрын

Interesting… I would think it may have to do with the US still being a relatively young country, so much of the architecture isn’t very old compared to many European buildings which were made to last for ages that are often beautiful and have a classic feel nice matter their age. Our stuff deteriorates or we take on styles that go out of fashion very quickly and become outdated, making them feel wrong and eerie out of context. Honestly a lot of these remind me of old creepy country churches, day cares, my mom’s workplace, doctors offices, storage buildings etc. So many of these liminal images bring me back to weird memories of my childhood and my uncomfortable dreams of the past which adds a strange element to it.

@rogeraydin908 2 жыл бұрын

For me, this is the best explanation/analysis on liminal spaces out there, because it manages to break down and explain both the physical and mental/emotional elements that make up all parts of the aesthetic as a whole very clearly, and also succeeds in explaining that the liminal spaces aesthetic is one of those things that just hits a bit differently for everyone.

@RelicQuadrangle 2 жыл бұрын

The creepiest, yet most calming ones are the ones that look like a pool ,but with stairs or doorways to go through. Also, liminal spaces can make us both uncomfortable and super comfortable. For someone who is more introverted, I feel like the fact that nobody is there comforts them. And for extroverts, I feel like because nobody's there they feel uneasy, as if something could get them, because they are not in a group. They don't have someone who could protect them. It could be both. I don't even know what the ambiverts are thinking when they watch this.

@SplatDatMat 2 жыл бұрын

I kind of describe myself as an ambivert? I dunno, tho, maybe more of an introvert. But honestly, i just have the description of an extrovert when i look at these.

@aguywhohasonlyjonhiskeyboard 2 жыл бұрын

I feel uneasy looking at the no people pictures because it feels like I’m not alone

@RelicQuadrangle 2 жыл бұрын

@@aguywhohasonlyjonhiskeyboard that's what I'm saying it's like you feel empty but you know something's watching you. Waiting to strike.

@SplatDatMat 2 жыл бұрын

@@aguywhohasonlyjonhiskeyboard Fun Fact: You're never alone. No, i'm not trying to be scary. You are literally never alone. There are about 7.7 billion people in the world. There is always a person on the world, meaning you are never alone (unless humans become endangered and you're the only one left, then you're alone. but honestky the chances of that are probably near impossible.)

@RelicQuadrangle 2 жыл бұрын

@@SplatDatMat I'm an ambivert I think. I lean more extrovert though

@ihearttoast8162 2 жыл бұрын

Liminal spaces is *the* best aesthetic I've ever seen, and without exaggeration. I swear it's like somebody screenshotted a part of my dream, or a deep obscure, distant memory in my head. I love it. And im glad youre giving it attention, your videos are entertaining on this stuff and the sound/music match the images perfectly

@D3ADC4ANN31 2 жыл бұрын

Numer too

@pumpkinpepsi 2 жыл бұрын

I feel the same way, it brings out a feeling I've always chased and tried to hold on to and could never explain.

@borntoclimb7116 Жыл бұрын

True

@victoriataylor8778 Жыл бұрын

i can’t empathize this enough. i love liminal spaces. it’s my favorite and i never get tired of them. i love the music and sounds. 🤍

@TheWeirdcoreMan 4 ай бұрын

700th like

@Puppet____ Жыл бұрын

I love liminal spaces. I got so addicted that now I feel derealization and sometimes feel like if I'm fake. Also, sometimes I really wish I could be in those places.

@supercringebrosdii5233 6 ай бұрын

7:05 been there it's a myrtle beach hotel in South Carolina. The reason the windows are blacked out is because it's the bedroom windows.

@TheRealAspect 2 жыл бұрын

Hearing Polygon Donut talk about the Backrooms has completed my life.

@Alice1apple 2 жыл бұрын

Go watch catmeme timeline

@TheRealAspect 2 жыл бұрын

@@Alice1apple already did, just forgot

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

meow

@MXY... 2 жыл бұрын

@@PolygonDonut hi polugo n donute

@lunarrity 2 жыл бұрын

@@PolygonDonut the cuh 🫁

@thefogitself 2 жыл бұрын

I used to be horrified of liminal spaces but now they seem more interesting and less eerie, but still feel like something’s off.

@trevorfredrickson 19 сағат бұрын

Are you in the backrooms

@thefogitself 17 сағат бұрын

@@trevorfredrickson this was two years ago

@sttubz 2 жыл бұрын

I remember as a kid when I’d used to walk to my friend’s house in the early morning hours before school, before the sun had come up and it was still really dark outside. I lived in a smaller town and no one was outside at that time (usually), so it was always so quiet. And most of the houses and small streets I’d walk by were dark with only a small orangey colored street light on the corner. I used to get the most surreal feelings at those times. Now when I watch your video, I realize I walked and lived in a liminal space. It always felt different at night compared to the day, sometimes creepy, but always so peaceful. I still have dreams to this day of that small town and my old house…

@snowwhite19376 8 ай бұрын

Liminal spaces are old buildings that built old memories that will be never forgotten

@mcrzy Жыл бұрын

liminal spaces have always amazed me in an unexplainable way

@pleasedisregard_anychaos 10 ай бұрын

Hello member

@YYangles 2 жыл бұрын

I'm really enjoying this series about weird internet aesthetics, It's entertaining and imformative. Keep up the good work pongo donute

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU

@basicallyAlfie 2 жыл бұрын

@@PolygonDonut can you let me the f*ck out of the basement now? I haven't seen my family in years.

@pugsriel 2 жыл бұрын

@@basicallyAlfie It’s pointless…

@basicallyAlfie 2 жыл бұрын

@@pugsriel ...

@katsnow2001 2 жыл бұрын

@@basicallyAlfie poopoopeepee

@DaverTheDave 2 жыл бұрын

i love the audio design for this, and learning something more about this part of the internet is really interesting. I haven't really done any research to liminal spaces so it's nice to see it put into a small 12 minute video. It's really cool to see you making videos about topics you clearly like, keep it up!!

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

thank you@!!

@Mothman69-ic2co 7 ай бұрын

@@PolygonDonuti love your channel pongon

@Little_.Raizenmyenpawzy 2 ай бұрын

@@PolygonDonuthellooo pongon

@hamade. 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Polygon, as an expert on psychology of nostalgia, I'm, really glad you made this video explaining liminals spaces. I'd make one myself but I'm too lazy

@logandunlap9156 Жыл бұрын

that sounds like the fakest title i’ve ever fucking heard

@homiebreadpill 2 жыл бұрын

i love polygon donut's videos on weirdcore/dreamcore images. his voice just fits so much?

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

thank you!! :)

@jadetheslime3140 Жыл бұрын

@@PolygonDonut what do you use for the fonts in ur videos and is is downloadable on android?

@2bitt 2 жыл бұрын

3:16 dude I’ve never seen that picture before but that’s probably the one that feels most familiar to me. I’ve been to a hotel before that had a couch of that same shape and similar color, extremely similar wall and carpets and it even had that window with the blinds, and the kitchen behind that half wall (which was also in that hotel room) had similar cabinets and countertops. The table in the center, there was something like that, the TV, there was a similar, old fashioned TV on a stand that looked extremely similar. I know I haven’t been there but holy crap that gives me the chills.

@entitypolyhedron 2 жыл бұрын

for me it looks like one of the roblox flicker maps i dont know man i just think it does

@Glubee 2 жыл бұрын

thats what liminal spaces do

@joshrainwater2822 2 жыл бұрын

Wait I think I’ve been there too was this in hawaii?

@2bitt 2 жыл бұрын

@@joshrainwater2822 no, Vermont

@Seppy0522 2 жыл бұрын

7:52 this. if i had at least one person with me to keep me company, I would be content in this place forever.

@PastelOddity 11 ай бұрын

Not even joking, this video has become one of my comfort videos and I've watched it several times now. The way you explain things, the sound design, the visuals: top teir.

@dinopines9191 2 жыл бұрын

I love your use of sound design!! It adds so much on how the image feels, like the kind of nostalgic dreamlike sounds that plays with some images making it feel uneasy yet comforting, like you can spend some time by youself enjoying the lack of other life or the emptiness of a never ending hallway with only the buzzing of fluorescent lights to comfort you (seriously the addition of the fluorescent light buzz was so cool!) great video :D

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

Thank yoj so much :)

@tarabell2678 2 жыл бұрын

I agree, you're really good at it. Were you going to upload another compilation like you did for the Weirdcore images?

@pactpoint 2 жыл бұрын

@@PolygonDonut yeah, thank yoj for the video.

@vizzysfizzys 2 жыл бұрын

Ayo polygon, just wanted to say your videos an editing keep getting better and better! Honestly I love this so much! :)

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)))

@RelicQuadrangle 2 жыл бұрын

@@PolygonDonut smiley face go "nyeeh"

@trayveongray Жыл бұрын

The liminal pools are my favorite kind, because it has that abandoned/unused aesthetic like maybe some type of incident happened or maybe it was just left there to write and it got flooded for all of those years, giving you wonder about how it got flooded in the first place and how the water can be green, brown, or light blue deep or shallow it has endless of style you can use it for and it would still be the same type of liminal space

@DeadDino Жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I'm looking for in a video this vibe the pictures u use the over analyzing the weird internet anesthetics I just love it and i keep watching the series on repeat at night plz do more

@territy 2 жыл бұрын

hearing an earthbound intro is a great intro to liminal spaces

@vizzysfizzys 2 жыл бұрын

6:24 glad to see some memes still incorporated into these vids!

@maggotcereal 2 жыл бұрын

i love how you explain weirdcore and liminal spaces oml please do more content like this bc id definitely watch them all

@abonzabay7693 2 жыл бұрын

I love the way you explain these aesthetics. I'm tryna make my own weirdcore/liminal art and these videos rly help me understand how to make my art feel uncanny

@North_Dakota 2 жыл бұрын

If schools Used this guy for learning education would be perfect.

@North_Dakota 2 жыл бұрын

YO THANKS POLYGON FOR THE HEART

@solicoli 2 жыл бұрын

he young though gotta wait 10 years pognon:(

@North_Dakota 2 жыл бұрын

@@solicoli nooooooo 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Not epic skruncly moment 😭😭😭🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭🅱️ 🗿🗿🍕🍕🍕🗿🇺🇳💪🇺🇳🇻🇮🇻🇮🇻🇮🇻🇮🇻🇮🇺🇳🥸😔🤣😒🥲🥲🤣😂🤩🤣🤩🤣😎🥲🤣🤪😂😃😞😄🙁😄😇😂☹️🤣😒🤣😒😂🤩😇🤩😇😔🙂😞

@GhostSynthHL2 2 жыл бұрын

You should definitely do more of these videos. Sometimes during class on my break time, I would watch these on the Chromebook and these videos have been my favorite ever since, especially the Weirdcore/Dreamcore ones where you sound design them. The music you use is PERFECT and the voice is good as well. Pls make more, as a person who made Weirdcore edits and also even made GMod Liminal Space maps, I love these videos, you did really awesome on these. :)

@grimms1916 Жыл бұрын

I appreciate the fact that you address just how hard it is to define liminal spaces/images. To me, they feel one of two ways. One you touched on, which is stuck. Stuck between what was and what will be, stuck in a perpetual present. You pass through that present when you pass through the space, but sticking around makes you feel stuck yourself. An deeply unsettling feeling, but one that passes once you leave. The other feeling is one I called shared memory. It can be summed up with the phrase "this memory belongs to everyone." Some liminal spaces (and most of my favorites) can elicit memories that most people can relate to. A secional couch in a downstairs living room, pointed towards a tube tv playing spongebob. A school library after dark. A now empty blockbuster building. These spaces drip with surreal familiarity that so many people can recall, even if they've never been there before, especially if that space represents a transitional period of time. That sense of "I know this place, but Ive never been here" elicits such a unique feeling of longing, but sometimes a paradoxical dread that makes you want to get away or stop looking, but at the same time makes you stay put. One of my all time favorite liminal images hits this sharee memory and longing dread incredibly hard. Its a meadow surrounded by tree covered hills on a dark, overcast day. The image quality is low, af if taken on an early 2000s picture phone. Every time I look at it, I feel an intense desire to go there, but a simultanious inexplicable dread

@dinowaffles1317 2 жыл бұрын

10:41 this photo and this photo 10:45 are extremely nostalgic to me! The first one reminds me of my preschool days and visits to this church my aunt went. I’d frequently play with the kids there. The second one is whimsically nostalgic. A hazy memory. Reminds me of the days before any of my preschool days. The days where I’d lounge around with my Pappie on a hot summer day with a fan, eating sausage and bacon, playing Leapfrog games on a box TV in my room. The days where my Pap would drive me up to my dad’s to stay in which my dad would play Kiss songs nonstop; especially “Shandi” because he named me after it :D and the days when I’d be in our living room watching TV before bed.. probably some time in the late 2000s. My god.. I miss it so much. It also reminds of when I’d be taken to my other Grandpa’s house (he was my grandma’s ex) with my Pap and Gram to sit as they fixed things over there. I’d just chill in the living room and it looked just like that image! And y’know what? I bet the house in that image smells just like cigar smoke just as that house did.

@malachaiangianga 2 жыл бұрын

Have you played the liminal spaces horror game? It feels so well developed. the game is called Anemoiapolis.

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

Yes im waiting for the full release!!!

@ollow_is_sad5373 2 жыл бұрын

7:20 This one reminds me of a story I heard of a girl and her family stuck in a bunker because of toxic waste outside. I'm pretty sure they could go outside because they were high enough so that it couldn't reach them, like on a high hill. Nobody went outside though, and they all needed someone to go outside to get things, and all but the girl were weak, but the girl, fearful, stayed in her spot instaid. One by one, her family members died. She was all alone, and decided to finnaly go outside. She ended up fine and could breathe. She could've saved them. She then died because she jumped off the hill into the waste. Am I the only one who remembers or have heard of this story?

@beepboopbop6439 2 жыл бұрын

what

@torrenzchannel 2 жыл бұрын

@@beepboopbop6439 dont worry im confused too

@NewSkater3000 2 жыл бұрын

That’s messed up honestly

@D3ADC4ANN31 2 жыл бұрын

I think I have... a memory is resonating...!

@denkithedhmislover Жыл бұрын

Wa-

@Madmonkeman Жыл бұрын

The best liminal space experience I had IRL was when I went to an airport just as it was opening it 4 AM but I also hadn't gotten any sleep. Seeing a pretty much empty airport with some most stores closed with lights off and being tired made it a little unsettling. Amazing experience.

@thunderbrinevoltz931 Жыл бұрын

10:00 proves Minecraft's superflat world is a liminal space.

@striderachive Жыл бұрын

Yes

@NonPettable 2 жыл бұрын

I insanely love how Poly makes a damn scientific works about the internet culture for someone who knows it badly or doesn't know at all (I'm this kind of people, hehe, thanks for liminal spaces and weirdcore videos). I feel insanely nostalgic, just like watching some kind of message in class from that guy who waste a lot of time to do it, putting all their soul to the work, feeling awful that there's not much who can see this masterpiece because of everyone just thinking and doing their own stuff. Very good job, so bad I can't do much but press the like button. Can't wait for the vaporwave music stuff or something like this.

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! :)

@a_guy8944 2 жыл бұрын

i love liminal spaces and its cool that you talk about them

@escaped_cephalopod 13 сағат бұрын

I kinda love liminal spaces, they’re so freaky yet oddly comforting

@AphidKirby 2 жыл бұрын

You're popping off with the documentary type videos these are SOOO entertaining and cool! Awesome sound design as always!

@Kuino 2 жыл бұрын

i love these types of videos, as i love these types of images you literally got me into weirdcore from the last video and i already like liminal so i cant wait for this

@GoldenEagle603 Жыл бұрын

Finally someone made a video on these amazing images. I looooooove these types of videos like this and the weirdcore one! hope you make more of these

@vvreverievv504 2 жыл бұрын

ive been searching the true meaning for liminal spaces and by far u have been the one to deliver

@nautilume7114 Жыл бұрын

That was so good, I've never seen this topic be explained well until now

@runic3063 2 жыл бұрын

I suggested this :D *Thanks for making this video pongon!*

@Zeder95 Жыл бұрын

Even before I heard about liminal spaces, I remember sometimes feeling a weird comfort for these kind of transitional places and places taken out of their context. Complex underground structures like basements of large buildings, subway stations, maintenance tunnels etc. in particular have a special adventurous and mysterious feeling to them. I think that is why there are so many games set in maze-like underground tunnels/dungeons. And places like schools at night always had this interesting and eerie feeling to them, I often noticed that before the term liminal space was known, I remember in particular spending the whole night in my universities computer room to work on my projects and having this feeling when walking through the dark and empty hallways at night with no one around. Here are some more things that can have liminal feelings: -Rooms without windows. I noticed that in one of the computer rooms in our university in the middle of the building with no windows as well, it gives a weird feeling of being shut off from the outside world. The same feeling underground places give you, like you are completely separated from day and night. -Outdoor elements inside buildings. When things like large trees, grass, landscapes with plants, ponds, house fronts, walls, roofs etc. that are normally supposed to be outdoors are inside buildings, especially if it is inside smaller cozy rooms meant for living there. -Vehicles taken out of context. This can be a boat on land far away from any water, a plane in the forest, a car inside a small room (rooms where people live) or a bus, truck or train car that has its interior built into a house for living, especially if the original seats are still there but people use it as a living house.

@EASOhio Жыл бұрын

6:28 I don't think you truly understand how happy I was to see this picture in this video. I remember coming across it a couple months ago when trying to find info about that "The end is near" library. It made me feel more nostalgic than any other liminal space photo i've seen before. Even though I know it's a library, for whatever reason it reminded me of a jewelry store I went to many years ago. Loved the video, and especially that part. :)

@gni3128 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I have been wondering why i kept having an eerie yet non horror feeling everytime i see pictures like these. Especially the pool ones. Chills🥶

@horrorhabit8421 2 жыл бұрын

This is a really great analysis of liminal spaces, especially the atypical ones.

@neutro1538 2 жыл бұрын

Yooo, such a good explanation of the topic, and a pretty flawless analysis of the phenomenon. Viewing something in a new context makes a space liminal and the reason so many different types of liminal spaces exist is because of the many ways in which you can switch around the context.

@gerinko7874 11 ай бұрын

I don’t know why, but in all of your videos, (not just this one) I always feel a sense of nostalgia watching them. I don’t know why you cause this feeling, but you do, and i like this videos.

@Stuck7777 Жыл бұрын

i love this so much that i have watched it around 5 times already, i could watch this all day

@youtubehandlesaredum Жыл бұрын

10:07 keyboard cat :)

@ItzBIULD Жыл бұрын

Stal

@TripPy_Poly 2 жыл бұрын

Just watched this, very good editing and voice acting Pongon never gave us up!

@sandmountainsam9287 2 жыл бұрын

The mysterious and lonely ones freak me out THE most, as we are pack animals and would rather be with others than alone. We also would rather make the fear known than fear the unknown

@fricklet9684 Жыл бұрын

I love liminal spaces, the calm, meditative state they provide while I try to figure myself out, they are quite therapeutic to me, actually, especially when they appear in my dreams. It’s sad that the meaning is being clouded by people who don’t understand it.

@qondonyon 2 жыл бұрын

1:18 I freaked out when I saw this image I remember dreaming about this EXACT pool when I was around 4 years old

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

Omg pog

@bengough5352 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love the music in this video, it's incredible

@Mx.muffin 4 ай бұрын

To me, liminal spaces bring me comfort, as these images for me kinda become screenshots of my memories. I experience memory loss, so sometimes some memories are blurry to me while others are just a little bit of an idea of a memory, so these images are very comforting in reminding me at least a little bit of what that memory is.

@person7028 2 жыл бұрын

If I'm correct I know where 9:17 is at and have actually been there, it's some sort of aircraft museum.

@Koopa-kj3yx 2 жыл бұрын

Isn’t that the Detroit Air zoo? I’ve been there multiple times and I vividly remember this

@person7028 2 жыл бұрын

Im pretty sure it is

@sagesolrock 2 жыл бұрын

ok but 8:59 is a vibe fr... Just gazing out the window at the blue sky and clouds, feeling the warm sun on your face. It's like an eternal summers day. Very calming.

@darkyelox 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this video and the funny but also respectful way you explained this concept, subscribed

@TumbleFourYa 2 жыл бұрын

I discovered you through your Weirdcore video and came across this one. This is the best explanation of liminality I've come across! I subbed. Can't wait for your other liminal and aesthetic videos!

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@pjw1993 2 жыл бұрын

I find it so crazy that the Pool ones are a thing. I so vividly remember a nightmare I had at least 20 years ago that looked so much like them. I think it was triggered by looking through the grates of the wave machine when swimming

@Pixxeell___ 2 жыл бұрын

5:48 IS a real place that you can book a night to and also yes, there is a exit it’s to the left and right.

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah i know, but in the image it looks very liminal because of its framing

@Pixxeell___ 2 жыл бұрын

@@PolygonDonut true.

@leilarandall9518 7 ай бұрын

I think this is the best explanation of what a liminal space is on the internet

@teoniflynn6588 11 ай бұрын

I watched your vids for years and as soon as I saw this vid of my 2 favourite things I 100% had to watch it

@Dicer_frfr 2 жыл бұрын

Do more Timeline stuff btw that's really fun to listen to I know these video's take a lot of time but I hope you do one of these soon thanks and have a nice day

@vinnisace 2 жыл бұрын

Instead of making those discord server videos as your main content, i'd love having these kind of explanation type videos, especially on other aesthetics like traumacore. I love your editing style and it really fits for this kind of content, keep up the good work!

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

I am making that shift right now, i felt a little stuck with discord videos and they were hard to really grow with. I will be doing videos on niche topics i like more often now because its much more fun :)

@rozesh 2 жыл бұрын

@@PolygonDonut pog

@PieGuyGaming 2 жыл бұрын

This is definitely one of my top 3 favorite videos on KZfaq :)

@eunhada4729 Жыл бұрын

I just found your channel and i absolutely hooked, please do more! Theres are other cores aesthetic as well or even the topic of 'uncanny' itself, would love to listen to you talk about them!

@JaycieSLove 2 жыл бұрын

Just wanna say, this is a great video and I love your editing.

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

THANKS

@undomyexistance5398 Жыл бұрын

I think sometimes the reason that sudden disappearance of life in public spaces is scary is because your brain tries to put together a reason as to why life has suddenly vanished, but it can't so it starts imagining all sorts of things and it further drives your fear and panic, mainly with the fear of unknown.

@asher3311 Жыл бұрын

i think this is the best explanation of what a liminal space is that ive seen on youtube

@Leon_LF 2 жыл бұрын

Huh, I had seen a lot of these type of images but I didn't know what they were exactly, so this video has been really informative. Thanks Polygon Donut for your share of knowledge.

@emmypersonal4033 2 жыл бұрын

I love your take on liminal spaces. It's always a bit frustrating when ppl constantly describe them as transitional.. bc a lot of liminal spaces aren't.. how is an empty Chuck E. Cheese transitional?

@locoluis1978 Жыл бұрын

Liminal literally means "pertaining to a threshold". Not "altered reality". Not "creepy" or "eerie". Just that, transitional. A lot of things are mistakenly described as "liminal" because people just don't get it.

@PlasmaAsthmaOG 2 жыл бұрын

If we all gather every single liminal space image ever, we could create some sort of "Liminal-Earth" Just imagine a whole planet, but no there are no people, no animals, no creatures, just you, your slowly decaying conscience, and your loneliness

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

Liminal planet

@PlasmaAsthmaOG 2 жыл бұрын

@@PolygonDonut ah yes my favorite playstation classic Liminal Big Planet

@aidenzach8911 2 жыл бұрын

i love the songs often paired with these images. and how they are usually from the same few things

@vitordoesstuff1805 Ай бұрын

I've rewatched this for more than 30 times because this is so good

@PlasmaAsthmaOG 2 жыл бұрын

If a liminal space classifies as "the in-between of things" then does that mean that New Polynomers City is a liminal space? Because it's the one thing between me and mental sanity

@Elias_NLSN 2 жыл бұрын

11:30 I spat out my drink, the splatoon 2 music hits diffrent!

@thedevilgoose2482 Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite liminal space areas is the Masked Mutant's lair from the Goosebumps TV series. I recently rewatched it and, god, I wish it wasn't on Netflix, I'd have screenshot the crap out of it.

@MagiKfroG 2 жыл бұрын

This video was really well made and you’ve shown me that liminal spaces are really cool

@sumrbloom 2 жыл бұрын

i absolutely love your energy and style, really cool video dude!!!

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

Thank u so muhcc

@networkofneurons Жыл бұрын

@@PolygonDonut yankee wit da missin bwim 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

@JaredtheRabbit 2 жыл бұрын

One dream I’ve had recently was that I found myself in a grocery store with my grandmother (and several other people). The grocery store seemed normal at first, until I noticed that a sports store was attached to it, and I checked out the hockey jerseys that were there. Since this store in my dreams broke the rules of reality, it’d be considered a liminal space.

@it_is_i_deo 2 жыл бұрын

You've somehow managed to make me realize how much I love tiled surfaces. I don't know why, but tiles and water just does it for me.

@notruannnnnnn718 Жыл бұрын

Best video on yt explaining this topic ngl

@somethingwithbungalows 2 жыл бұрын

10:45 has to be one of my favorite liminal images of all time! and I often wonder where it’s from. Just that nostalgic, haunting golden-green glaze over everything.. that ancient looking bejeweled twinkling Christmas tree.. and those ghostly hazey lights.. especially the blue light coming from the tv. It looks.. whimsical, nostalgic, melancholic, definitely-from-another-era.. but which era?.. it looks so familiar but not at the same time; a common description for liminal images but dang does this photo take the cake for the best descriptor of that. Reminds me of my Papap’s house.. that looked somewhat like that. It smelled like the cigars he smoked, and I bet that room smells the same way. Maybe with a dash of floral perfume? Maybe also with a slight wood-like outdoors smell. But it wouldn’t be fresh.. it would be cramped, closed in, and musty. The room being it’s own reality following it’s own set of rules outside of our own reality. Like.. this room really fits the description of an thing lost to time and space.. shoved to the side in some kinda place where an alternate reality version of us died eons ago. Just pure nothingness.. in a universe filled with only black holes that dispelled an unimaginable amount of years ago.. and yet.. this just.. exists somewhere in it all Yeah I’m rambling.. y’know what I mean tho, right? lol It looks so dead but alive at the same time, stuck in a memory of some kind.. replaying itself over and over again for eternity.

@lillianruan9801 2 жыл бұрын

Liminal space recipe: You will need: Florescent Lights Water Darkness Bright out of place colors Tiles or plain walls Out of place decorations No people Playground equipment (optional) Make sure to serve with lots of space and spooky music Serving size: 2, even though you want it to be one.

@PolygonDonut 2 жыл бұрын

i will make this recipe thank you

@lillianruan9801 2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome

@mozhgandadashi Жыл бұрын

i know this is off topic but 11:28 is SPLATOON MUSICCC!!! btw i really like how you explained the liminal spaces i been trying to look for this kind of videos !!! tysm new subscriber C:

@xero2576 2 жыл бұрын

Your vids are absolutely amazing!

@Gubgub_official 2 жыл бұрын

What scares me is that there is nothing living in these spaces, so there is no reason to be scared, but we still get scared

@ThatMan. 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed “the pixilated textures of an old game you grew up with” 11:15

@ender5312 Жыл бұрын

Minecraft

@ADHD-Creature-Official Жыл бұрын

@@ender5312 nah I thought it was roblox

@flawed1 Жыл бұрын

I have watched a lot of videos about liminal space. This is without a doubt among the best if not the single best

@djkvkwopppwpwoeorii2o 2 жыл бұрын

Liminal space i know, my house in the night, being a night owl im in there a lot, the sound of fans, nobody appears to be there, it gives a very liminal feeling

@TheMan5510 Жыл бұрын

The backrooms, you talked only about level 0, but there's alot more. Some of those liminal spaces you have shown are indeed backrooms levels, like level 188 and level 130. Although I think this video is mostly correct and works good to informate people about liminal spaces.

@DontYouDareToCallMePolisz 2 жыл бұрын

5:55 So... This image is used for one of the levels of backrooms. You can exit it by going into the window where you spawned, other are hostile.

@edwardclark6731 2 жыл бұрын

"WHO LET THE DOGS OUT- "(hellhounds preceeds to kill them)

@DontYouDareToCallMePolisz 2 жыл бұрын

@@edwardclark6731 NOOOOOOOOO

@yourcomputerhasdied 2 жыл бұрын

@@edwardclark6731 I let the dogs out >:)

@DontYouDareToCallMePolisz 2 жыл бұрын

@@yourcomputerhasdied :(

@ADHD-Creature-Official Жыл бұрын

@@yourcomputerhasdied Well put them back

@V0ID_X5 2 жыл бұрын

I’m only about a minute or 2 in, and already this is extremely weird made! (Just like your weirdcore/dreamcore explanation vid!) [A+++ on sound/music design!]

@Arc_5 Жыл бұрын

i feel like liminal spaces are areas that are very open with little or none hiding spots creating that uncomfortable feel and the fact no one is there supports the feeling that the fact if someone did appear would horrify you because there is no where to hide