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Nowadays, the world feels as if it's overwhelmingly full of people obsessed with various aesthetics. From cottagecore to dark academic -- there's probably one for every single person out there.
Well, today, we're also going to focus on two aesthetics -- liminal spaces and dreamcore. They might not be as cozy as some other popular ones, but doesn't mean they don't have their own fans. Of course they do -- quite a lot, in fact. So, today let's explore how these aesthetics blend together and who knows? You might just become a fan yourself.
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Karl der Große 8 months ago
This would be cooler with a super-thin man dressed as Santa Claus sitting against the wall singing, "Christmas time...Christmas time...Christmas time..."
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Since you opened this article, we will assume that you use social media in some capacity. Who doesn’t nowadays anyway, right? Well, at least 5.07 billion people for sure do. Since there are so many users of the World Wide Web, there (almost) just as many niches you can discover.
One of the most popular niches in the last couple of years is the aesthetic trend. In a nutshell, it’s a form of identity expression that usually involves some kind of sharing on social media. For example, curated images, video edits, mood boards, memes, and playlists being posted online to evoke an aesthetically pleasing feeling.
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BlameTheGame 8 months ago
I've come to realise, what makes a lot of liminal/nostalgic scenes like that is lighting. the warm yellow lighting is everything.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
It's the emptiness of humans, but with signs that people once were there, should be there and it makes you feel like you shouldn't be there, either. Sort of like being somewhere after hours, or in a store at closing time and the main lights start turning off, and you're there in the aisles with no one around, everything is still. It's just you and the loneliness. It feels familiar but strangely unfamiliar at the same time. There's no end or place to just be in one spot. It's all pathways, and any resting spot doesn't feel relaxing. Sometimes it looks like you're in a dream. The sun is very bright, little shadows, a sense of surrealism. That is what liminal space is about.
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Serena Myers 8 months ago
I have dreams similar to these, but the doors are dark oak, and the only light comes from the planets/stars, and the forest (if that is what it is on the horizon) is closer. I confess to taking magic mushrooms when I was very much younger, and I have very vivid dreams to this day. Related or not related, I have no idea.
Joanne Earle 8 months ago
I was thinking this is very dreamy....an element that would easily be found in one of mine.
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The list of possible aesthetics is almost never-ending, as new ones keep getting added basically every day. Take this list as proof of that – it contains numerous names, from more mainstream ones like Y2K to lesser-known (at least to us) ones like Crowcore.
Today, we’re going to focus on only two aesthetics that, in a way, are interlinked with each other – liminal spaces and dreamcore.
The former refers to the images of empty, abandoned places that evoke eerie, surreal feelings, representing places of transition. Then, the latter is a surrealist aesthetic that uses motifs of dreams, daydreams, and/or nightmares.
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Karl der Große 8 months ago
I will go slide on this next week if somebody tells me where it is.
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Carl Roberts 8 months ago (edited)
This might be photoshop, or AI. This appears to be the inside of a house, there's a light switch and electrical outlets, no doors, and the snow seems to seamlessly merge with the carpet/floor in the hallway
WubiDubi 8 months ago
Or they left a window open. Or someone stole the window. And wall.
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Ace 8 months ago
Looks like footsteps from a day or three previous More snow and wind has eroded them to make them look like that.
Load More Replies... Timeo Mikhail Piotr LEFEVRE 1 month ago
pov: u step outside, treck for a few seconds, and realise that you are really in this small room; just look at that sky.
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GenuineJen 8 months ago
The dark blob in the center in probably just an unfocused fish in the foreground? But when you zoom in it looks like a man standing there with water distortion. Yikes!
Timeo Mikhail Piotr LEFEVRE 1 month ago
Why build that when you can just pay a visit to an aquarium?
So, imagine what would happen if you mixed them up – the images in today’s list are what you get. All of these were collected from an Instagram page called @liminal.dreamscape. The page, which posts images nearly daily, currently has a little over half a million followers. In other words, people who enjoy feeling both comforted and creeped out by the same image.
But why do these liminal spaces feel this way? As this Reddit user put it, “Scary because it’s empty without people. Comforting because it’s empty without people.” That is kind of an ingenious way to explain his phenomenon.
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Julia Mckinney 8 months ago
Where is that and I wish my kids were still young enough to play there.
pineapple87 8 months ago
The kid inside me is like "yay!", while the adult goes "what kind of an entrance is there at the top because someone could definitely break in by crawling up that slide?"
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Timeo Mikhail Piotr LEFEVRE 1 month ago
why would anyone build that; its even worse than the skyscraper one!
In a tad broader sense, some people describe a liminal space as a place between 'what was' and what will be 'next.' Essentially, it is a place of transition, waiting, not being in the know. It doesn’t even have to be a physical space – it can also be applied to emotional or even metaphorical places.
Emotional liminal space is where a person ends after life-altering events like graduation, divorce, and the death of a loved one to name a few. Metaphorical one refers to a time between two ideas. For example, when a person is making a decision, until they do, they’re in there.
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Timeo Mikhail Piotr LEFEVRE 1 month ago
my sister would fall in love with this picture she be like: PINK!!!
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Timeo Mikhail Piotr LEFEVRE 1 month ago
I thought there wasn't a window, and that the clouds were snow.
So, the thing that connects all forms of liminal spaces is the unknown. The thing is that the unknown is one of the main sources of human fear – unpredictability tends to cause people discomfort. Thus, since that’s what the liminal spaces are based on, no wonder they make people rather uneasy.
Well, the popularity of pages like the one discussed today shows that sometimes people clearly crave something to make them a bit uncomfortable. Well, it’s no secret that some people like the rush that fear brings on, as the surge of adrenaline releases dopamine and serotonin to the brain, which makes us feel good. So, maybe indulging in some creepy images from time to time isn’t so bad, is it?
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Timeo Mikhail Piotr LEFEVRE 1 month ago
the sun flare looks gross. BUT I STILL WANNA GO THERE.
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Timeo Mikhail Piotr LEFEVRE 1 month ago
Imagine having your own personal backrooms in your house. oh wait, that's this house
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Julia Mckinney 8 months ago (edited)
Do NOT go in there without the Easter Bunny and his boomarangs! (Rise of the Guardians movie reference)
Bill Swallow 8 months ago
"Cute little ankle-biters." Jackman nailed that role.
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Peter Bear 8 months ago
With all due respect, and that isn't much... you knew what you were getting when you clicked on the article. 99% of liminal spaces are art, not photographed, and manipulated in some way or another. Don't click on stuff if you don't wanna see it.
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the curtains are just TOO red. so are the windows. My bet is that there was a murder. anyone else come to that conclusion?
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Joanne Earle 8 months ago
I don't think I'd want to come shooting out of the bottom and right into the wall.
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
I can smell this picture, for some reason. Smells like chlorine and plastic pool stuff.
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Robert Poore 8 months ago
eh, only for the janitors. the kids will have fun!
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GenuineJen 8 months ago
"Good morning, oh and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight!"
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Gingerfluid (they/them or any) 8 months ago
It kind of looks like there’s footprints in the water at the bottom left corner
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Jay Scales 8 months ago
Many of these seem to be AI, & once you know that, they don't have the same effect
FlagCityDiva 8 months ago
Yes, most of them look that they came from someone's imagination.
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PunchinelloTX 8 months ago
I’d prefer unstaged, not manipulated or computer generated images. The appeal of such lists is in the magic of finding and recording an actual weird in-between space in the wild.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
This is a photo I took of a street in winter evening. It's probably the most liminal photo I have. Winter-eve...b7da49.jpg 
RobotMonkey God 8 months ago
up-voted the lot......love liminal spaces, real. A.I......all of it !
Mike F 8 months ago
Agreed, even AI started out in someone's imagination.
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Floeckchen 8 months ago
Please check the definition for "Liminal Spaces". Most of these pics aren't that.
Jay Scales 8 months ago
Many of these seem to be AI, & once you know that, they don't have the same effect
FlagCityDiva 8 months ago
Yes, most of them look that they came from someone's imagination.
Load More Replies... PunchinelloTX 8 months ago
I’d prefer unstaged, not manipulated or computer generated images. The appeal of such lists is in the magic of finding and recording an actual weird in-between space in the wild.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
This is a photo I took of a street in winter evening. It's probably the most liminal photo I have. Winter-eve...b7da49.jpg
RobotMonkey God 8 months ago
up-voted the lot......love liminal spaces, real. A.I......all of it !
Mike F 8 months ago
Agreed, even AI started out in someone's imagination.
Load More Replies... Floeckchen 8 months ago
Please check the definition for "Liminal Spaces". Most of these pics aren't that.
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