Do you find liminal spaces frightening?

[Still-alive]

Liminal spaces if you don't know are usually common everyday places people normally populate but are instead completely void of any people and are well lit often with some dark corners in the frame. or you might feel unease thinking there might be someone or something just lurking somewhere behind a corner... The lighting might feel unnatural or you may notice some flickering in some instances.

Examples

Backrooms

empty hallways

Abandoned malls are common liminal spaces

Yes

No

It depends

A total of 15 votes were cast: 5 girls and 10 guys. See detailed results

[drummerdude25]

I walked into an empty wing of an old medical building the other day, looking for a health clinic… and knowing the local history, it used to be an old automotive engineering building/tech center, like 30+ years ago. It was a bizarre feeling in there.

I had family that worked there decades ago, and now it’s like walking through the backrooms… although it looked more like a mix between the last two images.

[EzraIsShy76028]

Not especially frightening.

I feel similar about a somewhat related but also unrelated topic called uncanny valley. A lot of people find it frightening but I don't find it especially frightening.

Also the Mandela Effect. Not especially frightening to me either.

[KBird]

In a strange way, I actually feel comfort in these places (to an extent). I like the quiet and the solitude, it's very comforting. I remember being in grade school, hanging out in the empty hallways/washrooms to escape the noise.

After awhile though I would begin to feel uneasy.

[rgb008]

No, I actually these spaces. I can dance in here forever

[WhiteSteve]

Not frightening, but like…. intriguing? I’m not finding the right word to describe my mood on them. It’s leaning towards “spooky” or “eerie”, but not really.

There was a movie theater I went to as a kid that was below street level in a busy downtown area. You had to take an escalator to the basement level to get to the theater, if I remember right. Or somewhere in the mall was downstairs, if it wasn’t the theater. It led down to an area similar to the third pic. Dim, abandoned mall/retail space, but the tiling was cheery enough that it wasn’t scary. It used to be a Sears that had moved out.

But something about those escalator rides always stuck with me, just the feeling of it. I remember a Captain Kangaroo video I used to rent as a kid (never watched on TV, just missed him) and it was supposed to be spooky, mysterious stuff. There was something with a conductor and a ghost train in a subway station, heavy on the dry ice “smoke”…I think that was related to the fascination.

I kind of enjoy liminal spaces, in an odd way🤷‍♂️

[front2back]

Not really since I am pretty used to being in spaces many would consider liminal due to my old job. I find them more intriguing and nostalgic than scary.

[PixieFairyBtch]

Yes! It makes me dizzy and feel violently sick, I start to get motion sickness moving through places like this and I don't know why lol 🤷🏼‍♀️

[MrChinaski]

I do have a habit of getting vertigo in art galleries.

[MrChinaski]

The 24km Laerdal tunnel in Norway freaked me out too. They have optical break out... errr... caverns every 6km to keep you from going crazy.

[goaded]

It depends. Has there been a recent outbreak of fungus infected zombies?

[AngryCarl3]

Everyone knows liminal spaces contain CHUDs.

[Veronika_p]

Quiet - Yes

Frightening - No

[Jewelmyth]

It definitely looks very scary.

[queenofcardio]

Kinda freaky