Why Do Liminal Spaces Scare Us?
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- From the Backrooms to Silent Hill, these odd and strangely familiar images are recognized for making us uncomfortable. Join me as I dive into the frightening reality behind how liminal spaces use nostalgia to scare us.
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Scary Clock Ambience: • Scary clock Ambience
Horror Boom Effect: • Video
Horror Ambience by ESN Productions: • (Free) Horror Ambiance...
Silent Hill White Noiz: • Video
Backrooms Buzzing Sound: • ＴＨＥ ＢＡＣＫＲＯＯＭＳ
Deep Underworld by Dr. Plague: • Deep Underworld/Horror...
Dark Forest by AmbientSounds: • Dark Forest | Scary/Ho...
Silent Hill The Day of Night: • Video
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Night Shift Footage by Rodteabaggins: • Night Shift - Puppet C...
Stock Videos from Pixabay and Pexels
Photos Used:
Strangely familiar photographs taken from r/liminalspace: / liminalspace
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They don’t scare as much as they just make me feel uneasy. It’s like I’ve never been there in my entire life. But it feels like I’ve been there at least once. It’s a strange feeling
Can’t really connect. I grew up in Australia and it looks very American so that’s probably why lol
deja vu, i've just been in this place before.
I hate working alone at my job doing dish's at night in the kitchen, cause when that happens i always get this feeling like something not quiet right or something is watching me lol.
Yeah.
Also usually there are lots of people there and now there aren't any. Like they shouldn't be there and neither should you.
I'm not scared of being alone. I'm scared of who is with me.
I grew up at a haunted place so... cant relate, im just traumatized
@Samuel Black same
Either we're alone in this universe, or we're not.
Both are equally terrifying.
@Samuel Black they arent the friendly kind..
@Samuel Black the place where i grew up so the spirits there will try and drive you out
They carry that “playing a multi player map without anyone else” vibe
It has that big "there must be something here... Right?" vibe
@@MfwPrivate Yea
Well said kudos o.o
Yeah, especially in old cod and csgo games
true, just like being alone on rp_downtown maps on gmod
“When you look at these images. What do you see?”
*Shows The Stanley Parable
*
The stanley parable is the most terrifying game ever
I don't know why, but for me, the places in stanley parable were always calming. The narrator always talks, so you don't feel alone either.
When he said that, I thought lights
@@infinitespinergy1220 when
He don't is creepy
I thought the same thing,goddammit stanley
It's like there's supposed to be people there, but there are no signs of life. Thus, it makes it unnerving.
@@tryhard_gamer2368 No
Game_head 1230 don’t self advertise on other people’s videos
@@tryhard_gamer2368 haha big noob
Why is it that it doesn’t scare me at all or trigger memories ._.
Ye
Idk what's scarier in silent hill, the liminal spaces or how much of a beef cake pyramid head is
@@bestboy1285 I know lol
Pyramid head is my dream relationship
@@BillyStyler let's be real everyone low-key ships themselves with pyrimid head
OH NO HES HOOOOT
Both
I was literally just wondering why liminal spaces are so weird. I've also been in a liminal space. When I was younger I went to a church at night with a friend. We went after everyone left and turned off all the lights. It was weird walking empty corridors going room to room
I’d probably faint if I was in a similar situation 😔
I was watching this video with that exact memory except without a friend
@@sirlite342 must've been scary
Empty churches at night are so terrifying
@@strictly_arthur699 God is with you 😞🥴👌
🙏
*this video is the definition of "the opposite of aesthetic/nostalgic*
nostalgic in a horrifying way
So no nostalgia and no aesthetic?
Yep lol
the concept of something that you know but also dont know is terrifying
Fear of The Unknown
@@spec4455 fear of the Known unknown. What is scary, something you know it's unknown, or something you don't even know if someone ever thought about it
@@MfwPrivate it's basically the uncanny valley, it comes so close to being familiar, but falls just short enough to make us possibly more unnerved than something totally unknown.
@@fluxuous6907 yeah
Makes no sense the way you wrote it, you might want to say "You don't know you know"
I just think of it as a point and click Adventure.
Why is this good advice
I would honestly love a Point and Click Puzzle game using those spaces.
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Object Class: KETER OH GOD KILL IT
Special Containment Procedures: Any instances of SCP-006-J that are discovered by Foundation personnel are to be left the fuck alone. Personnel are to contact Mobile Task Force Alpha 21 "Husbands" in order to dispose of the instance of SCP-006-J in a humanitarian manner.1 MTF Alpha 21 is to be provided with twelve (12) glass cups and twenty (20) slips of paper at all times.
Examination of any instance of SCP-006-J requires steady and careful movements. Any surprise of SCP-006-J may caOH SHIT IT'S ON YOUR FACE
Description: SCP-006-J is a collection of insectoid creatures that researchers agree are scary as balls. We're pretty sure it's memetic, but we're sure as hell not going near these things. I think I saw a stinger on one.
Discovery: I'm just walking through the hallway to my room, when I look in the corner and I see SCP-006-J-█. And this thing has these gigantic fucking eyes. Just staring at me like "I'm gonna fucking eat you." And I just get the fuck out of there.
Addendum 006-J: Guys, it isn't even that big, okay? Look, I'm going up to it and it hasn't attacked me yet. - Dr. ████████
Dr. ████████ has been promoted to Site Director. - O5-██
@@CameronKujo Nanette
Reminds me of the Nancy Drew games
Fun fact: the fog in SH1 was not originally intended; it was a way around limitations. The PS1 couldn't handle rendering that much town, so they implemented the fog to hide the unrendered portions. It was a genius workaround, as it adds a lot to the feeling of isolation.
Liminal space gives me the same feeling as if I was in between reality and purgatory. Dreams give me a very strange feeling of liminal space and I think it’s because our brain skips developing character and life to a scene, leaving them bare and giving you a sense that something is lacking here.
My god you explained it well
there are also something called "the middle rooms" and "the front rooms"
@@tryhard_gamer2368 No One Cares
TreeTheFunnyBoi what about the scariest of spaces: the bathrooms
@@enderpup9289 AAAAAAAH
@@enderpup9289 DEMON
@@enderpup9289 *holds up cross* OUT OF THE HOUSE
Im not even lying as a kid i always had these weird nightmares where im running through these endless liminal corridors and i only felt emptiness as i run doors after doors
I had this dream where I was in a big, dirty, all white room empty room with no door or window and I was just stuck there. I remember waking up and feeling depressed or something, idk
You may, deep down, feel like you can't escape your life/the things in your life/life experiences.
They all feel like a moist breath you’ve breathed in
aandrewww 🤔
Werdna
I’m a simple man, whenever I see billy styler upload I click.
hi ok I’m making great content if you wanna see it
Same bro he give knowledge
And this time, it was a weird emotional episode, damm this took me back
hi
J_the GoatYT Shut up dude stop self promoting
The weirdest experience I've had was when I left my hotel room and i was greeted with the presence of a child's bed in front of the door. I looked around for the person who put it there but the corridors were empty, with nothing except me and a child's bed. It was kinda scary, but mainly weird.
So that hotel corridor image triggered that memory and i feel so weird now, thanks
whenever i forgot something in my locker at school and went back to go get it, i always felt extremely uncomfortable walking through the empty halls that were usually full of people. it felt weird to be alone - i felt out of place. since i’ve learned about liminal spaces and the concept of the backrooms, it makes a lot more sense that i felt this way.
Complete with scary music, these send chills down your spine.
I will make a VR game that has suspenseful music and the further you get into the game, the more distorted the music gets, and the screams and shouts are louder, The text becomes more glitched and such, The roads have broken down cars with nothing and nobody in them, nearing the end, the visuals are all glitched and distorted including the music to the point where you can just hear distorted screams and horrifying music, the last room is an endless void, no music, no screams, no sounds, it's endless, you can't even hear your own footsteps...
Ever since I was a child, I’ve had these weird lucid dreams or “visions” while trying to fall asleep, in which I see oddly familiar places I know I have never been to that make me feel either at peace or scared in a way I can’t even describe. The worst ones are places so big yet devoid of any furniture or opening, I feel like I’m being swallowed by the room even though I have plenty of space to move.
"The world is meant to be scary, it is devoid of love, it is devoid of care, it is filled with hatred"
-Subway Sandwich 1998
But there is also love in the world. 🥺
Introverts: You can’t defeat me.
I know, but he can:
"Socializing"
Introverts:pulls out reverse card
purple guy your weak
@@user-dh9oz9um2w im you
Bruh
"When you look at these images. What do you seen in common?"
Me: They all have floors
they all have dim lighting
Demaunix Animations for now
@@hugedisappointment309 Wut?
@@demaunix2723 you heard me
@@hugedisappointment309 No I read what you said, I dunno where you are ;3;
Imagine if there was a chernobyl game, oh yeah i forget it's called stalker....
Get out of here stalker
S.T.A.L.K.E.R
Trys to be scary by showing liminal spaces.
The Stanley Parable: oh hello
the part were hes talking about me ''walking down the corridors in a dripping swim suit and air conditioners'' scares me cause id o that alot
When you stay after-school and its summer
Idk why this sentence is so unnerving, like a 1 sentence horror story!?! Like this carries the same vibe as a picture of luminal space for some reason? I just imagine a child sitting at a desk all alone in a big empty building, suddenly look up and realize he’s alone and he’s not supposed to be there, and he wonders how he got there but he doesn’t know? Jeez why did this get me so bad
@@robertchaney2704 like he gets handed a paper one day so he looks down and starts to work, when he is done and looks up and around, he realises he is alone, the building is overgrown with greenery and such, there is no lights on, and he hears screeching in the distance.
“The internet is full of many terrifying thi-“
*Joe Biden ad plays*
hmm
who u voted?
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Kanye East 😂
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Alright, this (7:24) was TOO accurate. Literally everything was spot on. Even the damn photo of the hallway. I wasn't that immersed before, but that got me into it.
Whenever im late/ leaving early at school its always so spooky while walking down the hallways
I like how the title and the thumbnail are two different things.
I love how i came fast and nobody texted: First
This shows us how billy's community is good
@TomoBata bruh
@@MonoMaletas second
@@DakotaofRaptors another bruh moment
The funny thing is you still said you were one of the first so not his community is worse
@@carriegrasty8852 i came fast but the intention wasn't saying first bro '-'
I literally got back from my janitorial job at a high school and I was in a very isolated part of the school and that is, by definition, a liminal space lol
I’m making great content if you wanna see it
Is it creepy? I work at a liminal space with some eerie features.
I like these type of stuff just imagine being in one of these areas. Yeah sure the world is dark and gloomy but it’s full of curious stuff to find
Usually when I see a playground devoid of children and in ruin, I get the same feeling whenever I see a used or broken children's toy on the side of the road. I have no name to the feeling both give me, it's kind of a mix of grief and guilt. Knowing that those items and places kept a lot of children entertained and happy, seeing them abandoned and devoid of childhood innocence. It's just... sad.
I’m late, but I know why we fear these liminal spaces. These spaces, once bustling with life, now devoid of it, make us think of the crowds that had gathered in them. We expect life to be there, but know there is none. This gives us an eerie feeling, like being watched, because we look for life, but find none. It gives a feeling devoid of hope, dread taking its place, because we often can’t help but think, “What happened here? Why are there no more people? Where have they gone?” We are social creatures, used to being around others, especially in places like these. For some, that feeling of there being life around us may not fade when there is none, fueling the fires of paranoia and fear. We know people were here, but we feel like they still are. All these questions, these feelings, this paranoia, it all drives fear into our souls. We are forced to fear these tranquil places by our instincts, telling us that we need to leave, that the other people are gone so we to must go. It scares us because we want to see other friendly life, life we can relate to and share time with. Liminal spaces hold this feeling, and it is the reason why we fear them.
I don’t know if this makes any sense, I’m just trying to organize my thoughts. Thanks for reading, if you did
You're not afraid of Liminal Spaces
You're afraid of what's in these Liminal Spaces
1:15 love how he just scrolls through a picture of the never going to give you up music video
I feel like Ancient Horror, Billy Styler, and Clark Titor would be great friends!
Idk about Clark titor, but i can see Billy and Ancient vibing
Also Night Mind and Nexpo
I played Among Us with ancient and Billy a couple days ago, they do seem to be good friends
Technically every space is a liminal space once you think about it
liminal space is a term and does not reflect a direct translation, so no
😤
Not exactly?
It gotta be EMPTY
In a way I guess
Liminal Space: Basically Cry Of Fear without soundtrack and monsters.
The back rooms are especially odd.
Are we just going to ignore that we basically got rickrolled.
we got rolled there was no rick
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Trevor Henderson should really insert his monsters into these images.
he probably uses some of them actually
It would completely ruin the mood tho.
I remember walking into a tescos one morning and i was so early that there was barely anyone in the shop and i occasionaly heard like boxes being moved but i thought it was a ghost or something worse. But at that time i was hungry and needed aomething to eat so i grabbed a few sausage rolls and a can of coke and hoped to be on my way but i swear as soon as i turned that corner i saw..something.
It was tall..i think and grey and looked weird i never saw its face but it wasnt human it was twitching way too much to be human i headed to the checkout and paid for my stuff i dont think it saw me but im sure ot heard me i looked round to check and it was just stood in the window i still didnt see its face. I know what your thinking it was just an employee but there was 3 people there stocking up in the early hours and i saw all three of there faces...so..what was this thing that i saw ive never seen it again but id never set foot back in the shop at that time again..
Holy shit......
Fake
That’s just the janitor
Thats just Todd, he’s a demon that wanted to be good
Ah I see, it seems you might have seen some local fauna which use tescos to nest they are native to many metropolised areas and sometimes are common in rural areas even though it is more dangerous. It seems you’ve come across a migrating crackhead
I didn't read the title so at the beginning I thought he was just talking about empty rooms
I mean kinda?
I mean, he is
The scary thing about these spaces is that it makes you think, that how empty your life can get, if everyone and everything in your life could disappear in an instant or over time, it always reaches the same point. And there is nothing anyone can do to stop it its inevitable.
I'm glad there is a term for these spaces now. Back in 2001 I was working a construction night shift in a massive single floor office building that housed about 1500 employees during the day. Most of the offices were cubicles so you could see through most of the area of the space. It was a little bit strange seeing this place that is supposed to be full of life in a state of being devoid of life. But I got over it rather quickly. I think career office workers are the people that get their brains buzzed at the thought of that emptiness, they see their spaces during the day full of activity and then they see them without any signs of life. During the COVID shutdown I was asked to take a shift at night for security on a 500,000 sq ft building and I walked that building alone every night several times. I liked being in that space alone. I like the idea of liminal spaces because they are fascinating to look at, but they are just places that aren't being utilized.
Never clicked that fast.
As soon as I saw the discord notification
same lol
Same
He has a Discord?
@@yoboikamil525 ye
@@yoboikamil525 He does
The whole concept of "creepy liminal spaces" seems as very western-oriented, I think. Here in Russia (or, more generally, I guess in all former Eastern Bloc countries) we've got things like Brutalist architecture, the "famous" Khrushchyovkas, and buildings of Brezhnev-era stagnation, that lacks any personality, aestetics and care for human comfort. In general, soviet-era city-planning leave no place for people to actually live, you're treated by them more like a unit moving from one place to another. That's liminal space on the scale of the city. Soviet Era is gone, ofc, but traces of it are felt to this day (again, I guess in different places it hits on different scale). We constantly exposed to empty "uneasy spaces", and kinda tolerant to it, I belive. Or at the very least they hit us on a different level.
And another thing - all late-period soviet-era buildings looks kinda the same. And all districts in city planned the same way. And all towns and cities are the same. Streets share the same naming stucture, populated by the same-looking buildings, with same interiors. That's intentional. Why would you even need otherwise? What are you, bourgeois? Even in Soviet era it was played up in comedy "The Irony of Fate", where drunken guy accidentaly fly to Leningrad, and beliving he is still in Moscow, took taxi to the place with exact same adress, wich looks the same, and uses the same key - he get in, fell asleep, and later was found by real apartements tenant (wich is young woman, ofc, and that sparks the main plot). So there is little-to-no nostalgia about some place you might seem once, because nothing memorized, because nothing is unique :/
Like, look at that playground at 3:23. It isn't eerie, it's just part of natural east european landscape. I'm actually know place that look very similar in ~10 minutes from my home. Alongside others pictures displayed, which is clearly more western-looking structures and looks kinda alien to me, it feels almost cozy. Like home :/
Agreed. Western people in general assume their existence is a default experience - maybe because they do not have compare their lives with someone else's, but, that is how things work. I find many of these images calming - I enjoyed staying in empty rooms at school or wander around "zabroshki" because I do not like company. There is some interesting quality to them, but I do not percieve them as uneasy or spooky. I guess growing up in an era of desolation and fall of quality of life does that to you. But, I am intrigued at what people here, or in other places and times, would percieve as eerily nostalgic.
This kind of liminal space isn't like an Asian interior design, so it doesn't feel notalgic of comfortable
I'm American too. That Western default experience is an important point and one I was considering earlier, so I'm glad someone brought it up. I did briefly think of Pripyat when I saw that playground photo (different place; same 'vibe'), and all its abandoned flatblocks. And I explored the Backrooms wiki levels' photos and their descriptions. The interior ones were so often from Western design concepts. The outdoor levels lacked stuff like baobab trees, or rice fields, or buildings with distinct India or East Asian architecture. Backrooms are a 'universal' concept; the representation was far from that.
Billy : the backroom
Auto-caption : the bathroom
Is it weird that they don’t make me scared or uncomfortable? I love them. They make me feel comfortable for some reason
I sometimes feel the same way, so not at all
Same here I don't feel anything and I don't know if has something to do with my Autism
You guys must be the people that are giving people the “someone or something is watching me”
@@noahsnoah3350 yeah most of them make me feel comfortable but ones like that empty parking lot, or empty grocery stores make me feel uncomfortable since i feel like something is about to jump out of the dark.
Nah, I kinda feel like I want to look at them forever even though they terrify me.
“When you look at these images... What do you see?”
r/backrooms
its actually r/liminalspaces
J_the GoatYT nah bot
The fact that you told me the exact feelings and thoughts that I was having scared the shit out of me lol
Honestly my favorite UA-camr considering you have a good sense of humor and you also post banger videos that are actually amazing
These videos have helped me pass the time through long editing sessions. Never stop making them.
Liminal spaces? You mean my b e d r o o m ?
Luminal spaces? You mean my brain during s h o o l?
Imagine being the only one on earth after watching this
I actually dreamed of that it was terrifying
Wow this is really informative and very well put! Great job!
yay I've been waiting for this all day
Lmao at 0:10 there’s a picture from the Stanley Parable.
Game_head 1230 WE DO NOT WANT TO SEE
Was about to say the same thing lmao
1:14 weirdo strangers to love you know the rules so do I
This was a well made, and interesting summary of liminal spaces. It's really nice to now have something to point to, when I'm in those uneasy places. Strangely enough I find a sort of fascination in those places. I often feel a sense of peace when I'm in them. It's a really enjoyable thing to think about. Thank you for making such an entertaining video.
i wish u uploaded more. ur content is some of the best on yt
0:29 phew, I thought my ipad died
Liminal spaces make me smile. A lot of them just make me feel quite warm.
I was so extremely excited for this to come out, I just simply love these topic.
Yes finally another billy styler video keep it up ! :)
(Idea:) how bout' we make this comment section
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I feel like your voice is different
Broke into my old elementary school once at night at the vibe was just epic revisiting my old classes and areas i used to hangout was sublime
Another great video and this is definitely interesting to look into.
1:13 we just got rick rolled fuck
"Makes The Internet Creepier"
*Rickroll*
I really love this guys narration it really fits every video he has
Thanks mate!
My parents owned a restaurant and on Friday nights we would have bands come and play some music. We would often close super late, like at 12 or 1 AM. I was on cleaning duty so I would usually be the last person to leave. The feeling of being in the restaurant alone that late at night after everyone else had left always gave me an uneasy feeling. Some nights I would play some music through the speakers to not feel so alone, but man, those nights when I didn't play any music... the sound of nothingness was almost suffocating. Sometimes I swore I heard like a whisper or someone breathing behind me... And also, even when I did play some music, something still felt off.
Ahh I love ur videos, so cool and perfect to listen to while working on hw
I'm just hiding from society in my dark room, and then billy makes a new video. Thanks for never failing to give me hope billy. I'll still be here for every upload, keep at it billy👍😁
There's a reason I watch these videos when I go to sleep.
He says 'Goodnight' at the end.
Thanks Billy Styler.
When he started talking it caught me off guard and it’s scared tf outta me 😭
Congrats on 150k subs!
It feels so awesome when Billy uploads something. I just love his videos!
I’m making great content if you wanna see it
Nope.
I swear Billy you are genius ❤️ i was really thinking about this.
New to this channel but I already love your Vids
your so underrated keep up the great work Billy
Back at it again, billy
Before I knew what the backrooms were, I dreamt I was in them. I remember trying desperately to get to the highest levels to escape. As I got higher and higher, the hallways began to get more unnatural, randomly narrow or wide, horizontal splits in the ceilings, and oh yeah, more monsters to hide from.
Great video. Billy styler is Just an amazing narrator.
For me it also makes me think of things like car parks, dark, devoid of other people, but possibly holding dangerous ones. Nothing is so full of danger as a place that's empty, and all that.
I always get a strange feeling looking at these luminal spaces...it’s like somewhere I’ve been before but it’s almost dream like to me...it’s almost like places forgotten in time
I think you explain liminal spaces best. Best internet thing this year (sm64 is pretty close up there too)
Thanks for posting that other post cuz I wouldn't have seen this video so soon I always click like the hour you post lol
I remember a large gym area that had a lot of plastic toys such as dollhouses inside at an old school I went to. It was strangely eerie and ominous, because the lights were off. It felt like something was watching me from the vast and empty shadows. Not to mention, that school was mostly empty, so everything felt so creepy to be around, even in the hallways, like something's always behind you.
Billy styler just the way he narrates gives me the chills
The gym picture reminds me of my family going to a school with my cousins inside already to see them play basketball, also playing with them too.The gym was big and after all of that while leaving, i had thee thought of how it will look like if you where alone there nobody with you.That gave me the shivers.
I've always kind of liked the feeling of loneliness you get from these.
I used to walk around the mall when it was about to close. No one was around (besides the occasional janitor), it was just the old mall, the echoing quiet music and me.
You have a great voice and narration
1:12 DID I JUST GET RICK ROLLED ON A BILLY STYLER VIDEO
Liminal spaces evoke the same feeling as the fear I had as a kid, and still kinda have now. The fear of playing some 3D creative game, like Zoo Tycoon 2 or Minecraft, and some object or entity appears that I didn't put down, or some hyper realistic image appears. To this day when I open up Zoo Tycoon 2 and look around a completely empty map, I have to shoo away the thought of some random, hyper realistic entity, or even just a normal game asset appearing without my input