Liminal Spaces (2000’s Childhood) 

Just want to say thank you all so much for liking, sharing, and commenting on this video! This community as a whole is amazing, I read all of your comments and it’s so neat to know how many of us experienced a similar childhood, despite living different lives! If you enjoy these types of videos and want to share liminal pictures of your own, feel free to join my Discord server! Let’s continue growing the Liminal Space Army! Link is down below!👇 discord.gg/DENkbvCR

I can’t describe how I feel when I see liminal spaces, it’s like a nostalgic, calming, throw back, with sadness, anger and scared at the same time.

*"Everytime i see those pictures, it gives me memories but.. i was never there."*

This makes me feel not only nostalgic but incredibly sad aswell. Like this is all that remains of my childhood, now just merely images permanently frozen in time. Images from a time in which I can never return. Images from a time that no longer exists except only in still images, videos and so on. It's like being intensely homesick for a home that is no longer there. This time will always be special to me and I will treasure it always 💗

Born in 2002 I remember school computers running Windows XP on black colored CRT monitors

Im mad that the world grew up, everything used to be so much more colorful, less depressing. And now im depressed all the time, ive been constantly dissociating for the last 5 or 6 years, these videos are the only way to remember any semblance to my childhood

As a 2001 baby, all I can leave is this quote: “We had a perfect and glorious civilization, what the hell did we do to it? “

Never been in a near death experience, but this gives me the “life flashing before your eyes” feeling.

◾Born in 2005 here, I can relate to all of my gen Z brothers and sisters. We will miss this feeling dearly like other generations did with their own places.◾

Rediscovering old school color schemes from these montages have inspired me to paint my future dream house with them. I'm sick and tired of modern-day home decor involving bland colors and basic-styled furniture.

something about carpeted suburb houses just makes me feel comfortable, one photo of a living room/bedroom can contain so much life and memory in it. just amazing

As someone who was born in 2007, I can confirm that these pictures are very nostalgic. Looking at these pictures make me relive childhood memories and playplaces, but it also relaxes me.

Something about these images perfectly encapsulate what it's like to be a kid, specifically around like 4 or 5 years old. There's like a bit of enthusiasm and cheerfulness but also a sense of unknown and fear. Plus I feel like these are the kinds of places that you'd think about a lot as a child, for one reason or another, maybe because it brought a really happy feeling, or made you scared or sometimes just because it's interesting to you.

i don't even feel sad when I see these images, I feel happy knowing I got to experience this at some point in my life.

Born in 2004, every time I watch these types of videos I just want to find a way to go back to the times…I miss being a kid….😢

1:30 imagine coming back from school to play flash games... good times

As a 21 year old, I will say this video impacted me greatly.

This is just basically like an apocalypse happened and everyone moved out but you are just the sole survivor of the apocalypse. And you’re left alone. Nobody to talk to. Everyone else you loved. Your mom, your dad, your siblings all gone.

the nostalgia that invades me

Before I turned 13, I was constantly in front of a screen to pass the time because I didn’t live near any of my friends and my mom was worried that I’d get kidnapped or hit by a car if I did anything for myself or with my friends. I hate to say it but the best days in my childhood were taken from me.

I always feel a sense of comfort looking at these places because i had some of my best childhood memories at some of these places. It's no use looking at what could of been, but reminiscing about what has been is the best/saddest feeling you can have.

Born in 94. I started Kindergarten in 2000. Most of my school-age years were in the 2000s. I remember when RU-vid was new. The damn "Numa Numa" dance the kids in my 4th grade class used to play over and over again on those semi-transparent-shelled, old Macintoshes during free time. Those days when I was glued to Cartoon Network with shows like Dexter's Lab, Samauri Jack, and Courage. I remember when I first received my first desktop computer in my room. It was a windows XP computer with a CRT monitor. Ahh the days.

I'm at home, but this is the real home I wanna go back to 👇

These are absolutely the kind of places that, if you wander the halls long enough, you’ll eventually encounter an old childhood friend of yours who you eventually lost touch with. You’ll chat for a while, reminisce. Then, you’ll get the feeling it’s time to leave, to put these memories back in their box. You get home, and decide to look up the friend you met there on social media, to stay in touch… only to discover that they died years ago, not long after you lost contact. Is this weirdly specific? Yes. Did I come up with it just now? Also yes.

Us millennials are getting older, from the time we were kids to as of late, we have witnessed the most dramatic changes in mankind’s history. Our childhood was spent in one world and our adulthood in something completely different. We feel alien and long to go back home to where things made more sense. When we view these scenes, those feelings are strongly invoked.

I feel like these are the kind of places I would faintly glimpse as a kid before being ushered out by a parent, telling me it was time to go home.

Wow, so I saw that YOU took all of these pictures and that you can visit all these places whenever? Holy cow dude that's awesome! Its like you have a catalogue of liminal/nostalgic places to go to whenever you feel stressed out or sad. Thank you for sharing this with us dude! PS: I really like the version of subwoofer lullaby you used here, it adds to the big nostalgia!

I’m a 2000s kid and this makes me feel old, and I’m 23. On April I’m gonna be 24. I’m getting old man.

0:31 I’ve been there in real life. It’s in a mall nearby where I live. I wouldn’t call it so much nastolgic, but it makes me wonder about the mall back when it was much more popular. Back when my mom would go in her teens. And now I’m growing up as well, the mall still stays right where it’s always been.

Liminal spaces always bring me back to my childhood. To be honest, those early years weren't all sunshine, especially after my stepfather entered the picture. Yet, what I revisit isn't tied to a specific memory but rather a broad emotional experience. It's the sunsets in backyards on summer evenings, the scent of a small swimming pool wafting through the air, or encountering a mysterious hallway in a place beyond my young understanding. Back then, my world was a mix of mystery, fear of the unknown, and my friend's fenced backyard feeling like the scariest, largest place imaginable. Even venturing to the distant tree felt like a daring adventure. The colors of the sky, the clouds, and the sunsets were alien yet awe-inspiring. These memories, existing solely in my mind, occasionally resurface in small, random fragments. When I catch a glimpse or a whiff, there's a faint sense of familiarity, a recognition of a unique nostalgic memory-each experience holding its own charm.

Damn, this video actually made me cry 😢, man, good times, very good times, It made me remember about my childhood. Love it. Very great job 👏👏

brings a tear to my eye. Can we please get this architecture and style/vibe back?? its not to late to end this blocky era of the 2010s and 20s

Thou it's nice to look back on our childhoods from time to time, it's always important not be blinded by it, childhood is meant to be a temporary thing, the gap of innocence, for you to learn and develop into the person you are now. And as it stands, we all have much more life to explore and experiences. To pave the way for the next kids to have their nostalgia.

as a guy born in 2011 this feels weird to watch, it really looks familiar.

Born in 2003, these pictures are nostalgic.

I remember elementary school like it was yesterday. I’ve grown so much. I’m about to leave high school.

These pics make me feel I’m in 2003 and 2004 again, when they still had some leftover 90s stuff. Enjoyed them while they lasted

I was 12 in 2000. I remember most of these things.

Man you don't know how it feels when I can only find very little pictures of my childhood playgrounds before they were remodeled. I even had a basement that actually looked like a playroom. It's been remodeled twice. Once as a more modern entertainment space and now it's an airbnb. I miss when it was full of toys, games, childish puzzle mats, a shitty CRT, a VCR, and VHS tapes 😭

4:58 I had a dream about this exact place back in 2018 in 4th grade and now that i see it again, I remember it much fluently. Thank you

Watching backrooms, liminal & dream core images/places idk that feels great also loneliness is a superpower only a few can handle.

Childhood flashes before your eyes eventually your life will as well so please enjoy the best of your life because you can't go back to your childhood once you're older this brings tears in my eyes because I'm already 31 I'm having to go through dentist surgery for dentures and my life is at risk if I keep dental plaque in my mouth. I miss being younger where I felt more free and alive like I actually had a meaning now I feel like that meaning was taken away and robbed from me.

Can anyone explain to me how liminal space videos and music are both unsettling and soothing at the same time? It makes no sense.

0:34 I love the floor. The brightly coloured squares reminds me of a patchwork quilt

i’m glad you guys share the same memories as me, we lived together in an era that could never be returned.

Liminal Spaces embody and emanate the benevolence of their exalted designers, having done everything they could to bring fiction into reality for their young; for us. No matter the era, those carefree architects, two generations before us, have always sought to embellish every inch of our formerly boundless scenery with that love. It’s pure but unknowing, and the act of observing it is nostalgia jouissance. Look for the game “Higher Philosophy: Structure” in 2027 for the whole picture.

Love this video !! I remember us going to all those places!! So much fun !!❤❤❤

04:55 i can smell this place

I am Japanese. I have never been to any of the places in these photos, yet somehow I feel very nostalgic for my childhood in 2000s America. I love this feeling.

I miss life before handheld screens.

1:32 Windows Vista 😂😂. Definitely takes me back to the 2000s.

2:25 There used to be one of those where I lived as a 2000s kid.

I described liminal spaces and why they're appealing to gen z and millennials is because it's not just a nostalgia for childhood, it's a nostalgia for a time in the past but it carries with it the feelings relevant to what we feel now. So it's like current feelings overlaying a memory. The current feelings would be represented by the fact they're empty, illustrating that we no longer go here anymore but they're a place we were familiar with meaning we feel like we did go here. So it's like the current state of a past memory being revealed to you.

Born 2000 but was too poor to experience most of this 😢. My family didnt even have a cd player.

Closed/abandoned malls are the most liminal places to me imo

0:30 This picture is from the Dayton Mall in Dayton, OH. You can actually still go there today and it looks the same!

how to make a liminal space in your house step1: turn off lights step2: do it in your bedroom or hallway or bathroom step3: when take pic use the flash on phone

NOOO NOT THE WINDOWS 95 SLOWED VERSIO-

2:08 It's like being transported back to the doctor's office/waiting room on a rainy tuesday. Bein excused from school for the day.

1:06 I actually recognize this one! It’s at the mall in Florence, KY. I used to work part time at the Macy’s there.

I've been in liminal spaces before they make me feel like a monster will come out at any second

You go to so many interesting places and have such vision to capture them❣️ Love this so much❤

i wasn't born in the 2000's but i still get nostalgia, some things still looked like this when i was younger

4:33 the bert and ernie truck! they have that exact same one at the end of an outdoor mall in my annual vacation spot :D

0:39 that’s literally my childhood mall. Marley station mall in Glen burnie Maryland. I can’t even begin to explain how deeply that hits me…

It’s weird. I never even was so social or had friends. I was always locked inside. How can I relate to these. The only things that I can relate to visually with nice force is a bookshop store that had that carpet, that texture. The weird mix of colors sometimes remind me of some hospitals with pediatrics doctors rooms being decorated like that. I can’t seem to think much more.

this is uncomfortably nice

The Webkinz Mouse Pad

2:10 Never seen a Reese's vending machine before.

Some people feel creeped out by liminal spaces. I just get a sense of melancholy, probably because most of the pictures remind me of when I was younger.

Ive seen quite a few of these liminal space videos and this one take the cake for unsettling...within a minute i could feel my heart racing and my eyes widen...a sense of nostalgia and fear and sadness...then my body began twitching uncontrollably...wich i know theres some people that love making up all kinds of lies for attention but im being 100% serious when i say i could not control my movements..and trying to look away felt like i would be selling my soul to the devil...i just could not look away...i saw all these places and some almost looked familiar...i have no clue how showing a person random images would cause some strange feelings and uncontrollable movements but this video did just that...im 18 years old and remember my surroundings looking so much like the places show in these images...wich gave me tons of nostalgia and sadness that all those places are closed down or change there look to somthing blan...but it was weird to see them empty and almost frozen in time...and distorted...

When I was young I lived in a town in NY about an hour from the city. It was liminal space heaven with all the going out of business stores, a laundromat with a lounge area made to look like a living room which no one ever went to, a movie theatre so decrepit it ended up condemned years later and so many places had this weird “empty” internal architecture that always felt like it was missing something. At the time I loved these places and tried to explain why to my mom but I couldn’t. When I discovered this genre I literally teared up. I never knew a time where these places were bustling. My memory literally lies in things looking empty like this. I’m glad others can appreciate this as well.

I’ve literally seen some of these pictures in my dreams before. It’s so eerie. And I love it.

These pictures remind me of a time where I felt so calm and had wonder in the world. Like a fawn just born onto wild grass, everything feels so "there" like it should be.

God these always make me cry. One picture can spark a memory that you didn’t know existed

I was born in 2008, and I really miss a crap ton of these.👏😞

IS THAT A SPIRIT HALLOWEEN I SEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good video by the way. I've sometimes liked the feeling of liminal spaces...

literally getting all my childhood 2010-2015 memories of my parents bringing me to the mall and other nostalgic places. literally get dreams about these places when i imagine my childhood😄😄😄🤗🤗🤗😙😙🙂🙂😇😇

The minimalist aesthetic of today has gotten rid of all the vibrant colors from the early 2000s. Even popular logos have become more dull to fit the current trends.

It would be more nostalgic if the places weren’t all abandoned and were pictures from when these places were open

1:30 That is the exact monitor that my family pc had so that's really nostalgic for me

These pics bring me comfort for some reason

This video made me re think about all of my childhood memories especially summer. I remember I would go over to on Eid my best friends house (Jade, I have no idea where she is or who she is now after like 7 years) but it was her grandmas house it was soooo cool and big there was like an extra attic space we would go and play in it had the best lighting and there was a back alley, she had a fun play room, the whole house was just nostalgic (summer childhood vibes). Then I also had my best friend who was like a sister to me who lived like an hour away but I would still go over like once a week every summer. It was a small house but super fun, it was by a farm so we would go play. I also haven’t seen that friend in probably over 8 years I think she moved, this makes me miss all my old friends and memories. Now summers aren’t as fun now that we all have phones and electronics. We all just stay in our rooms watching TikTok all day instead of going outside in the sun eating popsicles and biking around town with friends, or going to the pool/lake.

I was born in 2010 and even I got super nostalgic off of these images (they remind me of places I used to go as a small child), so this definitely doesn’t just apply to people who grew up in the 2000’s. Good video tho.

that's why liminal spaces and backrooms are the best horror concepts.

1994. I turn 30 this year. Already praying to go back, one day. What's another 30 years gonna be like. I have nothing left.

This is the one creepy genre that hasn’t washed out for me, it’s saturated perfectly and still maintains that nostalgic creepy feel I get when I see places like this in my dreams. I’m happy that I actually got to experience many places like these growing up, that’s why it impacts me really hard.

Miss Delight could be popping into anyone of these images😂

1:24 it reminds me of whenever you go to a fun place at a mall but the entrance is on the outside, you go into the attraction it has like mini arcades and stuff right, but you go to the back that connects to the rest of the mall and its just like weirdly creepy like it looks like you've been to some of the stores but at the same time it looks abandoned

This video reminded me of a simpler time. Back when I was a mere child with nothing else to worry about except for school. But now I've got all this other sh*t to worry about as life around me changes for the worst. And every day I can feel my own humanity slipping away

I was born in 2009, so I was a bit late, but I still experienced these nostalgic places and memories that make me want to cry every time I look at them. Im sad, because I feel like I grew up way too fast, but at the same time, I feel wonderful, because I got to experience these memories and hold onto them forever. It’s such a weird feeling.

2000年代の日本で生まれ育った私にもこの動画は懐かしく感じる。国境を超えて感覚を共有できるのは普通にすごい

i dont always understand this world..but this video made me feel so many things, nostalgia , happiness, depression, anxiety but it also reminded me of life. Its most likely just my silly brain but i did write a speech? Of sorts while lietening to this I call it You matter - a nostalgic realization There are few things I never wish on anyone..yet long for them to experience is the nostalgic longing for a past you never had. The moments you once forgot brought back with simple pictures and music. We long for the past, we fear the future, and we take the present as being bad..when before our past was the now..where we could go to book fairs at school, ride those little coin operated rides like the apple car. Or where playgrounds were sacred places of imagination and not empty and void of joy. We take what we have experience for granted. Sure some may be bad and others worse…but there are those moments that shine like lost treasure. Golden memories with gems of happiness, sure now isn't the past..and things seem to get worse, we feel dumber or depressed. But we don't always feel that way, we enjoy our lives when we can..we experience our lowest points, we suffer alone with the constant war of thoughts flooding our head. What we should have done, what we shouldn't have said, so many thoughts. But through all that we survive- no we create we thrive. We may miss those golden days but that doesn't mean we can't make new ones. We may think everything sucks forever, but as my favorite quote states. At the end of everything….hold onto anything Cherish life as our most beautiful gift, a chance to create and experience everything. For in the end on our deathbed we will remember Remember all those who helped us, who hurt us and all those moments that made us human. Keep being human, keep experiencing life and keep trying to survive, create and be happy. For something as small as a gesture a simple compliment could mean the world to another. Keep growing and keep trying to experience life..for we only have one life. Treasure it as your greatest possession (With love and care to all who may see this..who took the time to read it all, thank you and take care.)

pure nostalgia, I still live in these type of places.

I was born in 2003 and All of these really brought me back to the days when i was happy! When I was 8 i didn’t take advantage of what i had before it was lost, that being the joys of childhood, I remember wishing I was older when i was a kid but now i have so many regrets

0:01 windows Microsoft 2006 intro speed 0.5x slow

Feels so haunting, like every second that passes is a hundred thousand years gone and there's nothing you xan do about it

Being born in 2000, this really takes me back I miss the early 2000s, back when life was colorful, simple and people were happier. I'm now 24 years old and can't believe how short the early 2000s were.

I remember being in with some wanna be "Self Defensers" there in the Rabatz.. We slept at the second highest point of the Funtower/House. But for some Reason, I got a "haunting" "Feeling" about it.

Born in late 99 and man when i was a kid everything about the 2000s where so simple and fun, would see a lot of kids in my neighborhood play with there toys or be active and play basketball/other sports which my mom would tell us to do to not get lazy. Many great cartoon to watch after school, playing my PS2 and overall enjoy being a kid. I wont ever forget those precious memory i hold in my childhood