well yeah, there is a certain feeling you get when you dwell too long in a place not meant for it, like if you’re waiting for a train for hours or your night walk takes you through an industrial park. so there’s definitely a psychological aspect.
hallways definitely should qualify but i feel like the backrooms did them to death. it worked in the stanley parable because it was novel.
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I thought it started off as some abstract anthropology/psychology thing.
Liminal hallway is semantically overloaded in that all hallways are liminal.
well yeah, there is a certain feeling you get when you dwell too long in a place not meant for it, like if you’re waiting for a train for hours or your night walk takes you through an industrial park. so there’s definitely a psychological aspect.
hallways definitely should qualify but i feel like the backrooms did them to death. it worked in the stanley parable because it was novel.
We’re coming from different places, but I’m the one out of the loop here.
Where I’m coming from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality?wprov=sfla1
Where you’re coming from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminal_space_(aesthetic)?wprov=sfla1
it’s a very internet thing yeah, knowledge won’t save you.