GMOD VR: Places You've Seen In Your Dreams 

About ghosts. I recently realized something. The classic sheet ghost doesn't actually wear sheets. He wears a shroud. Somehow, all this time, I've eluded the notion that a ghost is not just a friendly bed linen. It is a corpse. A corpse hidden under a white shroud. After this realization, the image of a typical ghost suddenly became a little bit creepier for me.

I played this map for the first time and thought "i would love to see the librarian play this", 1 hour later i'm watching him play it, and loving watching it

Honestly this feels like if an AI try to build a habitable space for humans, studying old images of human spaces and then developing plans generated from the images but without any of the soul/passion of the human mind that goes into creating those spaces.

15:32 is one of my favourite Librarian scares ever - got me too! It's one thing to see a model do something in GMOD VR; it's an extra layer of creepy to see something literally mirror your very human movements.

That reflection scare was so genuine and so legit. If I was doing this in vr too I would have fallen backwards

15:30 lol. I love the mirror scares in VR. I think they work so well because the form you see in the mirror is moving very realistically, since it's literally like head and hand mocap. It's like you just saw a real life person also creeping around the corner.

I feel like the distorted torture sounds were only meant to play for a short while in that room, and it's a bug that they kept playing throughout so much of the video. StopSound should be used whenever it seems like something shouldn't be playing anymore, as with that sound which overstayed its welcome. Just keep in mind that it stops _all_ sound, including any currently looping ones. Leaving an area and coming back should restart any intentional sounds, though.

You know, technically, the transition from a dream to a nightmare fits the definition of liminal perfectly

2:36 - don't worry about your monologues, I believe I speak for us all when I say that they are entertaining and enjoyable.

Yeah, I think the audio clip that started playing at the pool room at 27:20 glitched out, which is very likely why you were hearing it throughout the map after that.

The way you became my comfort streamer overnight. I found you on accident while in chemo and already binged all your gmod maps and creepy comfy. Ty for the videos.

I can absolutely relate to the thing about having dreams where you’re going to school but somehow have absolutely no idea where you’re supposed to be going or what you need to be doing. I generally get those at least once a month. One interesting thing that regularly happens in my dreams is that I will somehow recognize people in it as being fictional characters but somehow not ever make the connection that the events occurring are not real. The interesting part is that usually, these “characters” don’t even match up to any actual work of fiction and are in no other way obviously different from other people in these dreams, I just inexplicably recognize them as fictional.

When speaking about Liminal Spaces on Garry's Mod like this, i've been given vibes by Mac Dialed regarding on his videos. There we can see the artwork and similarities of the map designs comparing to the ones that we see on his videos. As stated before, Liminal Spaces are just imaginary places in your dreams whereas the look of the place you're at is odd or let's say you're on odd dimension. Yeah, Liminal Spaces are my favorite things when coming to Lib

When you spoke about dreams having certain rules and logic and you feel as though it's normal, it reminded me of a childhood dream where every half an hour, every floor and ground in the world would be spontaneously covered in worms for a while. But it was just like "oh it's nearly time for the worms again, better stand on a chair".

25:36 this hits a bit deep for me. In a lot of my scarier dreams/nightmares there is often a source engine game influence on them. Before I get to that though, I should mention the "view" per se. I often feel as if I'm drifting off to sleep, my vision is usually tilted/floaty and I often see it as if I'm fighting to keep my eyes open (and what little I do see is often quite blurry). The source engine part is it's as if I'm at my PC playing a game, but at the same time, I feel as if I'm in it, almost trapped somewhere between the two. In most cases, it's in very tight, illogical spaces. I often find myself opening the console to try and enter cheats/commands to help myself, yet the commands doing nothing. After trying that, I often find myself opening the menu and trying the Quit button only for it to have the same result, nothing. A lot of this is usually happening while something is following me, not so much chasing, but following. My mind tells me to get away from it, but I never quite can, it always catches up. I can never tell what it is either as it's never quite in sight and what little is seen is often a black jumbled mess. Sorry if all that made little sense, but "They WON'T let you leave!", especially in a source game map about dream spaces really freaks me out.

thats exactly what makes liminal spaces special to me, the places look like something i'd see in my dreams

Dreams are so damn interesting, and I wish more was known about them. We percieve dreams completely differently with the exeption of a small quantity of loose connections, but it's those connections that really pique my mind. I've really enjoyed the video, great work!

42:30 the doors have a fog effect that makes it look like the outside of a gas station, but when you open them, it's an indoor pool cool

15:31 This right here, is the most clever type of jumpscare that I've seen before. You are in a kind of non-euclidian space. It doesn't make sense, so naturally you would not give a fuck about it's layout, that's where you think you are safe because you know it's supposed to be that way, then it happens. This room has no furniture, and the other side is a perfect copy of the side you are on, since this is quite common as far as you have explored, you wouldn't expect this room to have a mirror. The only place where this map actually made me jump. 10/10

I love how I laughed at him getting scared of his own reflection, yet him moving his fucking hand at 20:09 made me spooked

Imagine playing like a makeshift hide and seek session with friends in this map

13:30 i think the reason rooms seem so large and exagerated are because in dreams you might "fuse" some of your old memories as a child, a time where the world feels overwhelming and disproportionate to the size of a child, in the eyes of a child, the world is huge, it's got many many sensorial effects

I literally played this map yesterday and I was astonished, it looked simple at first from the workshop photos but it's really good. Oh and at 15:30 don't worry, that mirror gave me a heart attack too ahah, I'm sure the map dev made that room like that on purpose.

Game said "no more preparation for the intro, start NOW" *FNAF ambient noises*

There was a period where I had lucid dreams about 3 times a week for almost a year, almost all dreams involved me in a bombastic location like a city, or exploring ancient ruins in south america etc then it just stopped and I can remember like 1 dream a month at the most, I miss it :(

The less directly scary/creepy parts of this map that lean more towards, dreamlike and serene and very pleasant to me. Like it 43:00 i'd love to swim in that, or the other water areas. Or the reddish brown room with tiled floor feels very comfy. Or the parts that feel almost like a normal house, but a bit strange and nit quite right, but not explicitly malevolent in any way.

Part of why I’m fascinated by liminal spaces is that my dreams *aren’t* like this. I’ve got a really concrete sense of locations I’ve been, and my dreams make collages of those mental models, to the point where I can recognize every space I go through. A first grade classroom from my school will open up into the atrium of my childhood mall, followed by the street I used to live on, and they’ll all be instantly recognizable and almost flawlessly replicated. So liminal space content lets me experience an entirely different sort of dream than I actually have.

the moment his reflection showed signs of being scared, my mind filled with a sense of safety. I felt like this new person was just as scared as us, so he must be an ally. Then I realized it was a mirror.

I highly recommend revisit Portal maps, they got weird, creepy atmosphere and sounds, even screams, i was spooked actually.

That glitched screaming sound was driving me crazy and completely ruined the other half of the video for me next time you can try to use the console to stopsound and reset it great video either way as usual

Something I read long ago about liminal spaces has really stuck with me because it applies to every single feeling of strangeness and dread. The reason liminal spaces work is because they're clearly spaces with known human design, but are also clearly inhospitable to any human life.

Liminal spaces give a vibe of you being Unwanted. Like walking into a classroom you aren’t supposed to be in.

"It's like I can hear a faint screaming" Also the scream "AAAAAAAAAAHHHH"

22:03 That outside area reminds me of how scared I was to go outside alone when I was little, because I was scared of the sound that strong winds make. I was terrified of the thought that there was something out there that wanted to take me.

I once had this dream where I died and that the afterlife took place in a parallel universe, but with no animals or anything. Just me in this strange, dark world. And not dark as in nighttime dark, but like somebody draped a curtain over the sun and it was all in an uncomfortable amount of light, where you strain to see but can still make out colors and such. I also felt like I wan being crushed the whole time, like the world was almost flat in a way, despite being fully formed and spacious. I subconsciously knew that I would reside in this space for eternity, and that really made my dream-self depressed. Also, there was still a way to communicate with people, and that was with the internet. For some reason, I would be able to message people on things like discord, but images and videos never loaded. Also, every website seems to have been reverted to their state in 2010-2013, even though I never actually experienced seeing them in that state during that time. RU-vid and other social media were also completely nonfunctional, and audio was absent the entire time, including things like my own breathing and footsteps. I also couldn’t leave the house for some reason, I was just stuck. I always felt like I needed more air in my lungs and I had a thick cloth over my mouth. All the plants were a yellowish-brown and half-dead, like you would see in a desert. It felt like the dream lasted for literal days. But as the days passed in my dream, the light level wouldn’t change and I always felt like I was a a little tired, but could never sleep. When I woke up, I realized that most of the undesirable effects came from me laying face-down on a pillow with another pillow on top. Also, did I mention that I felt really hot and damp? That was because I had a thick blanket over my entire body, including my head. The moral of the story is: don’t sleep with a pillow over your mouth and nose and a blanked covering your entire body

you can see his hands shaking the whole time, i love these videos, i usually take a few snacks and drinks and watch these in the dark with a light i have that's about the same as a candle, it's very relaxing

Finally a proper liminal map

Can't say I expected this! I saw it on the front page of the GMOD workshop but didn't think much about it. Cool to see you playing it.

Personally the reason I think “dream spaces” are creepy is because they appear so foreign , like a weird monster tried to replicate a human space but also bend it into a trap it understands

This showed up in my recommendations after watching some "Places you've seens in your dreams". And you're right about Liminal Spaces. It's about nostalgia. Places you think you've been there before but haven't. Sometimes your mind is able to construct some scenarios that you've only seen your dreams. Liminal Spaces are an amazing thing man I tell ya lol. I'm glad some people find the Liminal Spaces that are on the internet too. It gets rid of that annoyance of me trying to figure out where a picture of a Liminal Space is located.

The writing on the walls is from Left 4 Dead. It's stuff previous visitors wrote in the safe rooms that people set up for survivors to camp out in on their way to wherever they're going. The part about letting you on but not letting you leave might be referring to the weirdly placed chairs in this case. I was thinking there should be an area where there's a bathroom you have to walk past to get to a door that obvious leads to the next area so you can obviously just skip the bathroom if you want but you'll never know if there was something creepy in there. That's almost exactly what the very next thing they did was after I thought about it. Ever since I was a kid, I've always found bathrooms at night with the door partially open really creepy. I still sometimes lock my door after returning to my bedroom because I have this paranoid idea of something from the bathroom following me back to my room even if I walked past the bathroom without ever entering it. Music in dreams is different for me. My mind writes actual music that stays in my head after I wake up but I forget how it went about an hour or so after I wake up. I relate to the part about dreams often being frustrating. I've had a lot of dreams where I'm lost or trying to remember what I'm doing or figure out how I'm supposed to do it & it's often not even scary but just frustrating. I even once had a dream about trying to sleep & not being able to. I find a normal room in a weird place threatening because it's the place most likely to actually have someone or something in it. People aren't generally gonna hang out in an empty wet room or a room with nothing but a bunch of chairs & a toilet. But a room with two beds & a TV? That's where the murders happen.

It's fascinating listening to you talk about how dreams work in your own experience, because just over half of your generalizations are true in my own experience. tbh I was more engaged by your monologue than the map.

Frustration plays a huge role in my dreams trying to get away from something sinister only to not make it away in time due to running in slow motion, trying to defend myself only for my hands to swing like they’re made of lead, trying to reach a goal only to make no progress to it.

11:30 I have this dream all the time. I've been out of school since 2012 and I have this constant recurring dream of going back to school and not knowing which class I'm supposed to be in. The last time was a couple weeks ago. It's to the point where I now realize I'm having the dream again while in the dream and it wakes me up.

You were spot on with the genre change in dreams. One minute I'll be running from Chucky. The next I'm hanging out with him

Stumbled across this channel and series literally today, And there's something strangely comforting about following the lonely wanderings of someone lost in a liminal space. Maybe it's just the type of person I am, but this series is oddly therapeutic.

14:40 weird, I'm usually able to get away from things in my dream, usually because I have allies assisting me while we're all on the run from one thing or another. Usually it's people in suits, but other times its been things like tribalistic naked women, a Kaiju, or even the the EXPLOSION OF THE FREAKING SUN.

42:30 I can somewhat relate because a similar, fearful thought came to me after watching the Arthur Locked in the Library episode

In dreams: It's always awkward to swing something or to fight back in lucid dreams. I don't know the full detail as to why this is a thing but more than likely because it has to deal with dreams being an altered sense of reality. Just something I wanted to share sense it fitted the theme of dreams :p

The switch from the gameplay with those distorted screams in the background to the gameplay afterwards with none at all, made the second playthrough more creepier. It’s almost as if, between the time of the two gameplays, or dreams as the case would be here, something took out the being making the noises, something that is much more of a threat then whoever it was screaming could be. I can say one thing for sure, having no ambient sounds in this case did make it creepier to me.

Your comment about frustration being a general theme in dreams is something I find very true. For some reason the things we know we would want or want to do in real life, are always barely out of reach in dreams. I also find in many of my dreams a sense of helplessness, like not being able to understand why something isn't right, or being able to make sense of something.

Liminal spaces tap into the way you view the world as a very young child, where you see places and have no context for them, and your imagination is still extremely powerful and capable at running away at a million miles a minute. A combination that leads to these strange yet familiar, exaggerated locations we all imagine as 3-4-5 year olds. We see an empty office building, not even really knowing or understanding what it is, and our childhood imagination fills in the blanks.

One thing I found fascinating is just how different you and I’s dreams actually are. It really depends on the mindset of the person at the current moment. Mine usually leans on the fantastical, coming up with unique worlds and adventures. I tend to write them down and use them as inspiration in the real world. But I won’t deny I’ve had some dreams where I’ve been stuck in cramped endless rooms and houses. If I’m particularly stressed out I’ll end up feeling chased, without seeing what it is. Or my teeth start breaking mid-conversation with someone.

The screams started following you since the dark pool area. They didnt stop after you left. Even in the areas they didnt play before. Thats makes me feel like something found you and its coming for you. The screams are like a mark left on you so it will always know where you are.

Maybe it's a bit of an inkblot, but some of this seemed like it was meant to evoke elements/themes of childhood trauma. For example the crying noises, and ESPECIALLY the "better safe than sorry" with two different mattresses, a soiled and clean one. Soiled mattresses in horror games with childhood themes always only makes me think of one thing.

15:32 i saw the flashlight reflection and was like "oh its a mirror room" and a lot of times its librarian's reaction that scares me. this was another one of those times.

this video feels like im watching someone trapped in a dream and their just talking to keep themselves sane, i love the vibe. its very ingaging

With my school dreams, it's always me either being at an old version of my school, seeing classes i used to be in (during summer break) or me forgetting SPECIFICALLY my shoes at home, as if i walked to the car at some moment without a transition from home to school and I float out of the car and I'm like "oh wait, i forgot my shoes at home." only till i realize I'm dreaming, it shortly after just ends because I can think in my dream without talking.

This was scary as hell. Every single second of it, I thought something was gonna get really wrong really fast. I don't usually dream like this, I tend to have more "realistic" dreams (not always tho), but every image in here struck me really badly, like I knew every inch of that map was a trap.

Okay but the part about the ‘dreams never really let everything go your way’ is so true. Like I’ve had countless dreams where I’d be angrily yelling and then my voice would just give out for no reason

Many of my favorite spaces in "games" are ones that use the familiar in an unfamiliar way. Also I've totally been on the infinite dream slide.

Oh god, the play area at the start reminds me of a nightmare I had that terrified me. In short, I went to my old school in the dead of night, for whatever reason (the dream started there and I didn't know any other information). I went inside, bought a ticket to enter, and went into one of the hallways. After going down it, there was only one door at the end, and entering it led to a giant play place, that was so large there was fog inside, and I couldn't see to the end, in any direction. The door behind me was gone and replaced with an endless play area. The entire place had trampolines for floors, except for in-between each trampoline, around the arcade machines, and in the other types of areas. There were these sections that went underground, into these small, uneven circularish tunnels that were all padded and orange, similar to the inside of a blanket fort, except these tunnels went seemingly indefinitely underneath the place. These tunnels didn't look like they were professionally dug, and it looks like someone dug into the ground with their hands, only to have it be padding instead of dirt. The accent color everywhere (like in-between trampolines, on the ground where there weren't trampolines, the random pillars, etc.) was the same color of orange. It was fun for around an hour, having this seemingly infinite space with nothing but fun stuff, with hidden stairs upwards with catwalks and house-looking things, and hidden bases underground, it was awesome looking. Then comes the nightmare part. I was beginning to feel lonely and went looking around for people. There were quite a few, but they were always facing away from me, and I hadn't gone near anyone else yet (i think you can see where this is going). I decided to approach someone, and they were seemingly purposefully facing away from me. Being annoyed, I tapped one of them on the shoulder, and they spun around, screaming, and grabbed on to me. They didn't have a face, it was just a blank spheroid of skin. I was screaming as well, trying to get them to let go, while the other people in the area were starting to walk over to also attack me. Out of nowhere, someone shows up, kills the one grabbing me, and rushes me away to one of the underground tunnels. They lead me through it, into an incredibly deep section, and there's a whole base with normal people in it, all of whom had been missing for a long time. At night (at least to our knowledge) the lights went out, and the monsters would search the above ground and tunnels, looking for us. Last I remember from the dream, I was back on the "surface" when it turned to night, and ended up being swarmed by at least 20 of them, so I could save someone else from the group, and then I woke up. tl;dr my brain created a knockoff version of SCP-3008-1 and forced me to live through the horrors of it. 3:53 Stopped watching to write this just before this part, funnily enough, this sounds exactly like the dream I had, except with fewer people. The description of padded floors and bright, neon colors sounds eerily similar to my dream, as the entire place looked exactly like that. As far as I know, the only way you could physically get hurt in that dream world was from the monsters. Falling from the ceiling pathways and landing on anything didn't hurt you (though I would hate to be the guy to fall on an arcade machine while a monster was "using it"), and bouncing straight into the padded pillars didn't do anything. The entire place was also temperature controlled, so it was never too hot or cold, anywhere in the place. Getting knocked over and piled on by the monsters, however, was agonizing. I had never known you could feel pain in dreams until then, and I'm still not sure you can. My best guess is the parts where I was with the group of people, were the parts when I was getting closer to waking up and was in a lucid dreaming state.

That first graffiti is from Left 4 Dead. It’s found specifically in the caboose at Death Toll - The Church. In fact, most assets and graffiti in this map are taken from Left 4 Dead (like the dead bodies, Stache Whacker in the arcade, the “pizza restaurant” being Burger Tank, the slides from Dark Carnival, the jewerly store aisles and tables from Dead Center). It either adds to the “dream-like” feeling or the whole immersion gets ruined because you know where they came from. But hey, this is Source engine. The things created with this engine are downright just crazy sometimes.

8:27 For me, whenever a song plays in one of my dreams, it would be somewhat recognizable, like in one of my dreams I was in one of those real-life Pokemon Centers, the song that was playing the speakers was Handlebars by Flobot weirdly enough.

If you haven't yet, you should definitely play Max Payne 2. There are a couple of levels in that game set within nightmares of the protagonist and man, I have never seen the feeling and atmosphere of a dream, especially of a nightmare, represented so well in a game. I still think about it from time to time. The most realistic thing about that is that these dream levels borrow environments from levels you played before and arranges them in a nonsensical way, but the transitions are as smooth as in a real dream. For example, one level starts in a police station, which suddenly becomes your appartment complex and later it becomes the hospital in which the protagonist woke up at the start of the game. There are also many weird things not quite right in these dream levels. It's hard to explain but if you have never played it, you will love it.

At 20:09your hand scared the crap outta me it made my heart drop

I’ve always enjoyed listening to The Librarian talk about liminal spaces in relation to dreams, cause it’s something that resonates with me and my own dreams, and at around 13:30 when he’s talking about space, and how it’s exaggerated in dreams, I thought back to a dream I’d had a while ago, I remember getting on this bus, that from the outside looked perfectly normal, but when you got into it, the seats were placed weirdly, almost like a coach you’d ride as a kid in school going to some day out, and I remember this bus extending out further than it should, and once you reached the back, there was a doorway in which the buses structure turned right, and there was more seating in a long line to the right, and until I woke up I never questioned that the geometry of the bus wasn’t possible, like it was non-Euclidean in nature Thinking about it now, I’ve also always seen different styles in my dreams, in the sense that you could walk from something that looked like real life into something that looked like Borderlands (as an example) and it would seemingly mesh naturally and I wouldn’t question it within the dream, but outside I’d realise the strangeness of those two very different styles, something that’s also explored within the liminal aesthetic, when looking at artists such as Trevor Henderson

I really enjoyed this map, its both a liminal and a cool map, love the diffirent areas. But it almost feels like something is watching you explore these unknown spaces…

(video starts) Ominous FNAF music plays. The Librarian: Well thats a strange noise to start off with

When you mentioned childhood dreams and a slide that goes to nowhere, I vividly recalled a dream as a kid where I went down a slide that got progressively steeper and tighter until I was stuck with no way out. It terrified me as a child, so thanks for reminding me.

Oooh yea ive had countless school dreams in general, specifically of high school, and forgetting what class youre meant to be going to happens pretty often for me. Usually my thought process during them is just increasing anxiety that im gonna be late for class. Oh and sometimes it's not even forgetting what class i need to go to but more the fact that i cant remember where my locker is or what the combination is. All those fears of which stem from not knowing what class i went to next during the first week or two of a new school year or just somehow suddenly losing the muscle memory of what numbers to turn to when opening my locker. School dreams are pretty common for me, and they also kinda happen to be my favorite kinds of dreams, even if i didnt enjoy school before i graduated. That sentiment of enjoying dreams also extends to other ones in general, and it's rare that i have a dream that i really didnt enjoy going through after waking up

I love how this map uses so many HL2 Beta sounds

I wish i had dreams like you describe, my dreams are either a completely different universe, like wizard shit, or a perfectly reasonable real life situation, nothing strange about it, i rarely get anything in the midrange, well, i do, i just forget them instantly without any time to write em down

I had similar dreams about those indoor playgrounds with the tubes and tunnels and slides going in all directions and a lot of verticality yet no risk of injury. And as I got a little older, I had similar dreams but with malls and indoor water parks and these vast structures that are like malls, but they are more like indoor cities.

loved seeing that one scene from Kane Pixels video at 6:58

the dream you were describing about not being able to find any of your classes, i've had EXACTLY that. some moments that stuck out to me were when i found the bathroom, it was a massive room about the size of an indoor waterpark lit only by the bright yellow light flooding in through the large windows. it contained a maze of bathroom tiles that was short enough for you to see over them and sparatically lined with frail pipes and showerheads. another moment that stuck out to me was when i got up to the top level from the elevator, it led up to a tight office type corridor with plain white walls and boring carpeted floors (especially weird because this place was supposed to be my middle school which is a very old building made entirely of asbestos) the corridor turned and winded around with absolutely no consistency and the wall on the left side of me was always entirely just a window that showed a vague outside (you could tell it was outside, but i cant put my finger on any specific type of environment or biome) the window also did not show any part of the buildings exterior which should have been visible because it kept turning and looping back in over itself.

This is really the most dream-like video ive seen ever. You can see how every room that connects is similar in one way or another, just like how dreams gradually progress like you explained. Also, i really love how he made different outdoor areas have different times of day, i swear to god i recognize EACH AND EVERY single one of those outdoor areas theyre so perfectly done. Every room in this map is perfect and extremely dream like.

Interesting. The idea of returning to the same place that you view as so integral to dreams is something that almost never happens to me in dreams.

I love this map and its creepiness This is the scariest thing I have ever tried, this map is a masterpiece, im too scared to open it, but I wanna keep exploring

Your description of having dreams where you’re in a huge fantastical kids play area, but alone after dark; that is what fnaf security breach literally is. It’s a shame it didn’t turn out that great, because at least to me, the premise and setting is an awesome idea and i would’ve wanted to see it done better.

This guys voice is so relaxing I can fall asleep to these videos anywhere

Long comment ahead. This was really interesting, so many spaces that brought back memories. I was a kid/teen in the 90's. I like how many of those areas feel like places I know. For me, the creepiness of the liminal public space is that I actually was in a similar place but now it's wrong and impossible. Personally, the most unsettling ones were the home spaces. Sometimes you feel like just a second before you came in, someone left. They had dark staircaises. Rooms that were out of place, that feel inhabited by a stranger invading your house. One thing I also liked was the use of darkness and light, how sometimes it was impossible to know if we were inside or outside. That comes up a lot in my dreams, moments where it's difficult to know if I'm inside or outside, light and dark don't make sense, and the boundary between private and public life blurs and makes you feel exposed and trapped at the same time. When you mentioned murals, I felt what you meant. There's something really uncanny about spaces that want to emulate the outdoors by being clearly fake. They're not even trying to feel real. Weird vibe. Also, that area at 30:40 is just like the one in the Best of Blood music video by Malice Mizer (a jrock band) lol that put a smile on my face.

"A childhood dream but they Shut off the lights and locked them in" maybe the liminal space uncanniness with this nostalgic association is about a the instinctual fear of corruption of innocence like you said it's also magical until the day you finally know better and then you're permanently changed and can't go back and all of your previous interactions are cast in a completely different light it's a type of death you'll never be that person again

It's crazy how much I relate to the imagery of this map. So much of it looks like places I've dreamed about, especially when I was a kid. They often lack clear boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces, and have a somewhat unnerving atmosphere. Indoor waterways also appear from time to time, which always give me the creeps. Some places have more of a basis in reality than others. One thing I find particularly interesting about this concept as a game map, is that a lot of my dreams are in CGI, at least partially. I wonder if it has to do with growing up in the age of 3D games, kind of like how people who grew up before color TV dreamed in black and white.

11:26 it’s funny that he mentions this because I too have the same exact dream. It’s recurring and I’ll just be wandering the school tryna find what class I’m supposed to be in and lurking around the halls asking people but still unable finding out where I’m supposed to be.

This is an older vid but I've been watching a lot of your videos and this one def hit home a little harder. I had a lot of dreams/nightmares similar to these environments. Gmod assets don't quite do it but the meaning is still conveyed. Especially when it comes to the"fun house" style rooms and the indoor playground centers, such as the discovery zone. Things would be contorted and could easily slip into a nightmare. A lot of them would be recurring, especially ones contained within my childhood home, which happens to be over a century old(as of current year). Familiar doors would open to rooms reminiscent of the "pool rooms" but without water and I would get trapped in the nonsensical architecture while being observed/taunted by unknown figures. I could go on and on about specific dreams, which is kind of baffling to me bc I didn't think they still existed in my memory until some of these maps started triggering some sort of pseudo nostalgia. The more liminal space media I engage with the more it occurs. So further down the rabbit hole I go. Keep up the great content, it's quite fun watching you put yourself through these maps. Especially in VR. Would love to see some "co-op" or guests who are mostly unknowing of what they are getting themselves into join in. I know it can take the scariness factor down, but a good map design could overcome that I think.

bro, imma HAVE dreams of this video. i swear i keep falling to your videos man, your voice is too dam smooth

I love how when a dreams about to end it's just random bullshit to cap it off

It's always so fascinating to hear about how dreams work as a person who doesn't dream, whenever I go to bed, it's just a blink into the next day, maybe I DID dream, but my brain just erases it every night? Maybe there's more, maybe there's not. I am not quite sure and I don't think I will ever be... That's sort of creepy, really.

Great video as per usual, couldn't finish it though because the screaming in the background started to really bug me (I have autism and stuff like that starts to get too much after a while) an easy fix is to use the stopsound command in the console, other than that I really think you brought up alot of good points once again, I saw that someone else commented that you should upload two videos, one without commentary and one with, just mute your mic track on one video and not on the other and then you have two videos per map that you upload and double the views most likely, I would watch both for sure, either that or go back through the maps after you're done exploring and just show the path you took, obviously more effort because you're recording two videos but that's for you to decide, keep up the good work 🎉

ARE YOU KIDDING ME I WAS PLAYING IT YESTERDAY AND SAID "I gotta see Libarian playing this Hell", AND SO IT GOES AND HAPPENS!

Another thing about running in dreams is the infinite endurance you have, i remember running away from a polar bear across a continent for days.

I relate to this heavily, especially with things feeling natural to you in dreams.

For some reason I really like rooms decorated to look like it's outdoors

not really surprised that the creator of the map used half life 2 beta sounds for the map, i think it kinda fits the whole liminal space idea, especially the beta citadel sounds

I love your reference to Twin Peaks at around the 30:23 mark. It shows the red rooms would be classed as a liminal space.

Usually when a sound or audio file keeps looping just type /stop sound and if it comes back then you know it’s supposed to be there. Sometimes gmod gets a loop going as a bug. That should help with the radio screaming.

I agree about the frustration thing. I think that is a big component.

These maps are literally the best honestly

14:58 i remember having a dream there. The carpet was green and the two rooms had different uses. The door at the end of the hallway led to a larger hallway. The first room on the left had no door and 2 turquoise sofas. The second room had no door either but it had a bed with brown covers. I remember how the dream started, my friend sent a snap of this abandoned shipyard or something and then i jumped a fence into a small paved backyard then came thru a glass sliding door into there.