All these images of malls have reminded me of this big one that I went to as a kid. I have very fond memories of it, it was massive and had basically everything, we’d spend hours there. It’s an old place, my dad actually hung out with his friends there back in the 80’s. It was a fun place, and all the people there are what made it great. But… around 2019 things had been changing. I had noticed it when the Sears there had been closed, and then slowly but surely more and more stores closed. We had barely went to the mall anymore, because y’know, Amazon. We went there recently to see a movie at its theater. And it was a ghost town. I remember waiting in line at the theater entrance, and outside of it was this big area with a restaurant and other stuff. There were dozens of people there, it was so crowded, probably hundreds of people honestly. But now there was basically no one, and that whole lobby was now empty. They had tried to renovate it a while ago, the whole place that is. Give it a bunch of new shops and whatnot, but then COVID happened. Out of the hundreds of shops in that mall, there are probably only 5 now. Out of the thousands who frequented, there’s probably only 20 now. It’s sad seeing it go, seeing it fall from its former glory, but that’s just the way life works I guess. My mall probably isn’t the only one, considering all of these images. I guess everything has to die at some point.
this was a good comment. yes, everything must go at some point. Covid destroyed a lot of our dreams, but were making a comeback. life wont always stay like this, good job on the comment, it was very relatable.
It's crazy that our childhood malls are so much alike. It had a Sears inside as well and my parents and their friends went there as well as me and my generation. I think what's cool about liminal spaces is that they look like everyone's memories at once to sum it up short and sweet. Our mall still exists and there is no movie theater in it though.
What I realize is that liminal spaces give me no nostalgy, but they give me joy. Like, being alone and where no one can bother you, what can be better?
What it's like to play an old game that was once the king of the internet only to see that there's no one there and hasn't been there for nearly a decade
3:08 this reminds me of when i went to an entertainment park in like 2017. i still can feel the texture of the carpet and playing hide and seek. and 3:23 reminds me of when i used to go to this one themepark ages ago.
I'm just confused, all dreams are just.. amazing ,chill, and comfortable. I just don't want to wake up and stay there for days.. it's amazing. Like idk how to explain the feelings but i know you experienced it too.
I stayed in a hotel very similar to the one at 0:47 in Chicago, except it was tropical themed. I later found out that hotel, one of the first buildings in life that I found myself obsessing over the raw aesthetic of (those individual apartment doors are rooms, if you can't tell), had been shut down and more or less abandoned. I found an urban exploration video of that hotel, some guys messing with abandoned garbage and broken glass in the very same lobby where I spent one of the happiest vacations in my life, near the little alcove where I got to play House of the Dead for the first time, beneath the very room where I had once slept, where my friend left a dried mealworm on the pillow as a joke, where I would regularly recollect on my three days of thrills and fun. This video hits hard.
The ones with malls and cities really mess me up. I'm from India, but I was born in the U.A.E. and spent the first 12 years of my life there. I used to live in Mussafah, Abu Dhabi and it was a fairly dense region. We had 3 to 4 malls in our area, one of them was a LuLu mall which was also the mall we would visit the most. I have so many memories of myself and my family going to the mall. I also do vividly remember disliking the mall (cuz we started going there too often), little did I know a couple of years later I would be writing this comment from a city in India with only 1 mall nearby (that mall is nothing compared to the ones we visited back in the U.A.E.) It's been over 3 years since I moved to India. Sometimes when I'm unhappy with how my life is going, I like to sit down and think about that same mall and that same city I lived in. Perhaps one day I'll be able to re-visit the mall... I really hope I get the chance to do so....
i was born right at the end of the 2000s, so 2009, which im so grateful i was because i was right on the cusp of never being able to experience this. i have many fond childhood memories of places very similar to these (mcdonalds playgrounds, pump it up or bounce u, etc) qnd if i was born even one or two years later i wouldve been raised on social media. thank god.
Liminal spaces always invoke a very strange reaction in me. You can't really deny that the majority of liminal spaces are for a North American audience - the malls, that particular style of suburban architecture, etc is all something very specific to the USA. Now I'm British, so I still live in a Western country with close relationships with and influences from the USA, so these liminal spaces always feel really really strange to me. They feel less like nostalgic memories from my early childhood, but more like a nostalgic longing for the way my childhood should've been. America has so much cultural influence in Britain to the point that sometimes it feels wrong that I'm growing up here, even though I know that that's a ridiculous thought to have. As I said - a very strange reaction.
It's weird and creepy at the same time because is just darkness outside with lights in the room and Is a quiet room with caretaker music and familiar music we know
you know, i've noticed that one singular object in the picture can really break the thought that you may of been here before, like at 0:31 Cause in my country, shopping carts don't even look like that, but if it lacked that, then i'd of probably of been convinced Also why are there pictures from the krusty krab and super mario 64?
0:52 hit different for me. I don't understand it completely, but when I was a toddler, my father would be working and my sister would be at school. My mother had to take me on all sorts of errands with her, and this one just resonates as an amalgamation of multiple places she took me. It hit hard.
This is gonna be hard to explain, but when I was little, I would have this reappearing nightmare that would happen, maybe once a year. I remember it was this red building with windows on all sides of the walls, a glass door, and some bright yellow text on one of the windows that I could never read. Inside the building was really dusty and dirty, and there was this mini carousel, the ones where you had to put in a a quarter to make it work. There was tiled floors, a red front desk, and something I would never forget, a dark, pitch black hallway that leads to no where, I never went down it. The nightmare would start when my mom would drop me off at this place and the woman at the desk would come outside to greet me. Maybe this was some kind of party place. My mom would leave and the strange woman would guide me inside. She’d sit me on the carousel, put in a coin, and let the carousel spin while she stood behind the desk doing nothing. Everything was fine for a few minutes until all of the sudden, a loud boom sounded and when I looked at the desk, the woman was gone. I would hear footsteps coming from the dark hallway. The worst part about this is the carousel would stop, but I was never able to get off. I was always stuck. And even if I did manage to get off, the front door was always locked. Then came the worst part. The wolf. This horrible, bloody, falling apart wolf costume would come out of the hallway, and I would sit there in horror as the wolf walked towards me, while I was actively pissing myself, crying, and trying to get off the carousel. The wolf would stand in front of me and look at me, for 5 seconds. Then, it’d grab my head and break my neck, all while I was begging for my life. I always woke up in a cold sweat, probably pissed the bed, and feeling like I was going to die. The last time I remember having this dream was maybe when I was 8. I’m 12 now, and have never had it since.
0:58 This is very nostalgic for me. I’d remember coming home with or to my grandparents house at 9 pm, and It would be foggy and snowy because it’s Michigan. And I would pass houses that looked like that.
this feels like as if everyone on earth and every trace of those people just suddenly vanished, and you're the only person left wandering the empty remains of what was created by the human race
no, you miss your old you. you miss the time where you actually enjoy things you do And as time go on your interests changes. It doesn't feel the same anymore not how it's been before.
I really like this. The music sounds like it's from a VHS tape, and that combined with the liminal spaces makes it feel really creepy. But then the chords hit, and you realize that it's not scary at all. It's simply Minecraft music. You then relax, and think back to a simpler time, soaking in all of the nostalgia. The music comforts you as you sit there and are reminded of a better time. I may be wrong on the Minecraft music, if so please correct me.
I am fascinated by how these images represent what all of us lived as kids in out sleep. We may all be very different, but deep inside, everyone is connected, and Liminal Spaces are the proof.
I remember seeing a long movie on a cinema in a mall. I was 10 years old. We used to go there regularly, almost every week because we didn't have any natural parks and stuff near us. The long movie started at 11 pm and finished almost at 2.00 am. I remember how security led us out in a line, and how scared i was. The toyshop i went in earlier were closed, toilets around the corner was dark and the only thing i could think of was how i would be dying of fear if i hadn't other people and my parents with me. Then we went to the extremely quiet underground car park and drove away.
Lotsa memories suddenly came into my mind. kinda teared a bit. this vid's good af. i hope both sides of ur pillow are cold and you have a good time sleeping.
Well, i don't really recognise any of these places, probably cause i live in the Uk and they look nothing like anything here, to me they are so eerie and creepy, nothing nostalgic or sad, just so creepy
there's a specific place that I remember always being and my mom and dad would leave me unattended, it was really peaceful, but i cant remember if it was a dream, but i have such vivid memories. it was a place we would go at night it had a bluish- brownish lighting and it was calm, there were sheep and chickens and one brown horse that would always stand there, with a pile of hay, it was such a cool colored place there were not any warm colors only browns and blues, there was a blue farmhouse that was small and stood on the right, there weren't many stars, and there was a surrounding of wooden gates, and behind those were trees. i would be scared of it now but back then i found it so nice. i remember a crescent moon stood there in the sky. does anyone remember this place? I'm trying to get answers to this i feel like I'm not the only one.
Maybe a park? Or a playground perhaps, my dad used to take me out a ride right before bedtime with his motorbike so i could fall asleep. And I remember dreaming about being on a playground park late at night. I asked my dad about it and he exactly know the place, i asked him to go there just for the fun but when we got there it's been abandoned and ruined, way to go i guess
3:29 Hit me too hard. Sometimes if I think about it, those simplier times were that simple, that everyone enjoyed what they had and weren't even complaining about it at all. Like just for comparison. 2010... Blocky CRT monitors, 4 GB ram was like a dream, Discord wasn't even a thing and instead people used Skype. Twitch also wasn't a thing, people used RU-vid (which back then had much better conditions and almost no ads), or something else to stream. 20 MB/s internet was one of the fastest at the time. Most of people still used cellphones with keypad. Not much could... Really entertain us... I wish we could go back to the 2010s...
0:22 this one hit me a lot, This reminded me when me and my great grandma, Had to stay nights in a hotel with my sisters, It was a lot of fun, And I miss it, And also 1:41 hit me hard, It reminds me when I always went to this water park when I was like 4, Or 5, On summer, It really hits me because, I would probably never go there again, It’s been 2, Or 4, or 5, Years Since I went there, It reminds me of when I was just having so much fun there, And had no care in the world, And, 1:59 hit me a lot too, It reminds me when I went to an air bnb, with my great grandma (the same one) also with my sisters, I believe when I was 7, But I had a lot of fun there, And there’s a lot of ones that I will probably list, So, Thank you, Thank you for uploading these, And making me remind myself of those fun, Happy, Memories, You deserve a lot more attention, And thanks you, Thanks for listening to my Ted talk.
0:57 This one gives me the most nostalgia, i remember when i would get so excited when it was time to put up the Christmas decorations and when seeing the final result with all the lights and such at night would always warm my heart.
These liminal spaces always make me crazy. I mean, I know I've never been there. But why then does my brain tell me "bruh I remember this place, sick shit we've done here bro" BUDDY WTF (Nice 8-bit Minecraft music tho)
These are not good examples of liminal spaces. And I don't get why there are so many dark places. Liminal is not something dark and unsettling, but is a place that does not have any particular point and is like a "loading" screen. In other words, it's some place which is used over its purpose.
I'm confused as to how some of these photos qualify as liminal or transitional spaces. Like a living room or bedroom? True, they have all the disquieting atmosphere that some liminal spaces inspire, but I don't know if they're actually liminal, are they?
The fact that this gives a vibe of just one feeling of experiencing the image, feeling what its like to be there, feeling your and our last moments in those places again.
This literally feel like "game over" music when you die in real life like here are all of your memories. Young and old, good and bad. Long and short. Thanks for playing. "Human"™
Even though I try, I can't really put into words the mix of emotions that these compilations make me feel. I'll just say to anyone reading this comment a year later that you might want to check out Dan Bell's dead mall series if you haven't come across it already: ru-vid.com/group/PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx7dwchPJGJ3IQ
0:55 it looks like the bus station of a city that I passed when I was traveling on the bus. It was mid-2017 at 2 or 3:00 a.m and I had no idea what liminal spaces were, but for some reason, that place caught my attention. so I took a picture, unfortunately I don't have it anymore because I changed my cell phone and lost it.
Yeah this reminds me of my old times with my friends when I was young even though I can’t go there anymore.And this give me nostalgic feelings,and also happy one’s.As earths habit you will become more aware and sad when videos remind you of old times or old memories. We all know that we can’t replay our memories as a TV.But we can become more aware than we were as children.Some of the pictures are backrooms levels.
