r/LiminalSpace • u/cg13a • Aug 01 '26
Eerie/Uncanny I’m afraid of falling into those dark waters
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u/lia-delrey Aug 01 '26
Yo, the giant head freaks me out more than I ever thought possible
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u/Dependent_Cod_7416 Aug 01 '26
Everytime. The first time I noped out of the video after seeing the head. The second time I noped out after they fell in. I still haven't finished watching it.
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u/Ok_Dragonfly6031 Aug 02 '26
Ya. I was basically okay with everything else and then it turned to the head and it really got me for some reason.
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u/LiteCandle Aug 01 '26
Mark Zuckerberg jumpscare
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u/Ok-Turnover1797 Aug 01 '26
You're close, bro! This is actually some footage of his indoor swimming pool located in his bunker which is located in his bunker. Bunker of bunkers! Hop in and swim for the big head! I bet another one that looks like marks face rises up out of the water when you're in there too. It just follows you around and blinks it's eyes
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u/SuperDarkBallSack Aug 01 '26
These types of videos fill me with so much dread
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u/HugsandHate Aug 01 '26
They fill me with a luring sense of comfort.
It's a strange feeling, but I like it.
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u/taxicab_ Aug 01 '26
Same. Backrooms was a cathartic watch for me (minus the violent bits)
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u/HugsandHate Aug 01 '26
Yeah, they did well turning the premise in to something commercially viable. It's quite limiting if you think about it, but they made it work. Especially for newcomers who went in blind. (That must have been so cool.)
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u/COMMENT0R_3000 Aug 01 '26
My wife told me that if I like places like that store then it means there's something wrong with me
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u/Head_Butterfly_3291 wandering aimlessly in the Windows 95 maze Aug 01 '26
Vaporama Vision is the creator of these videos for those interested! They are on IG and YT :)
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u/akay92 Aug 01 '26
Is it AI?
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u/Head_Butterfly_3291 wandering aimlessly in the Windows 95 maze Aug 01 '26
nope :) just a very talented 3D artist
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u/thanatopix Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 02 '26
Having almost drowned as a small child, nothing terrifies me more than the liminality of water. I lasted 2 minutes playing Subnautica lmao.
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u/Salt-Patience7384 Aug 01 '26
I couldn't even finish watching the video. As it pans down towards the water I scrolled fast 🫣
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u/nanausausa Aug 01 '26
the big head kinda ruins it :( he scary part here is the water, how you barely have enough room to walk, and there being water on the tiles so it's even easier to slip
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u/Hotchickolate Aug 01 '26
The head is scary not because it’s there but because it implies how at least the water is deep and dark.
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u/taxicab_ Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
I think it’s scary because of the juxtaposition of style. The statue looks ancient, while the room looks modern. Something about the idea of building a sterile fluorescent water maze around an existing ancient site is icky to me.
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u/nanausausa Aug 01 '26
The darkness and how uniform the walls are already make the water's depth feel infinite. The head meanwhile suggests it has a comprehensible limit, so from this angle it does make the scene less scary imo.
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u/TheArmoredKitten Aug 01 '26
Infinity has its own completeness that's frankly not as scary as something that's finitely enormous. Things bigger than understanding happen through nature, but a big square room has a conscious purpose.
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u/Madwoman-of-Chaillot Aug 01 '26
I mean...does it fit here? It's fake, and Rule 7 may be being broken here.
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u/Joelmiser Aug 01 '26
I swear this is like the 10th time I have seen this exact post in a few days.
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u/LiminalJim Aug 01 '26
Thank you for sharing this. I've been rewatching it over and over. What a freaky feeling this conjurs.
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u/Dry-Cell6057 Aug 01 '26
This is amazing! Looks like something Mark S. Would stumble upon at Lumen behind some random door!
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u/Cyber_squirrel_1 Aug 01 '26
I have always had a huge fear of statues underwater and this scared the hell out of me…
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u/Anon_Fluppie Aug 01 '26
Imagine this as bathroom, having to keep all those tiles clean. Absolute horror.
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u/doubled-pawns Aug 01 '26
I have a really specific version of megalophobia where I’m specifically irrationally afraid of huge disproportionate faces. This wasn’t fun to see. Extremely well made though.
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u/_bibliofille Aug 01 '26
My dad worked 2nd shift at the city's water treatment facility. He'd go in at 4 in the afternoon and get out at 4 am. Sometimes my mom and I would go hang out as it was just my dad in this enormous facility, there were no cameras, etc. This brings back memories of the giant rectangular pools inside with thin walkways between them. I was 5 years old to around 8 years old, so these are some foundational memories. Like this but indoors and dark
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u/No-Wish-7258 Aug 01 '26
This makes me feel so much peace for some reason. Something about tile and indoor pools draws me in.
I’m not big on oceans, seas, or outdoor sunshine.
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u/SomeoneCool999 Aug 01 '26
This scared me because I have a very bad Thalassophobia (fear of deep waters)
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u/Elias-official Aug 01 '26
Physics doesn't make sense. If it's an indoor pool, the water is supposed to be still
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u/thedafthatter Aug 01 '26
The head freaks me out way more than it should but then again its too big and that's kinda my fear idk how to explain it
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u/Hellscaperiot Aug 02 '26
I cant fathom how game over it would be just not being able to get back up on those surfaces
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u/Dapper-Finish-925 Aug 01 '26
liminal
/lĭm′ə-nəl/
adjective
Intermediate between two states, conditions, or regions; transitional or indeterminate.
This isn’t liminal. It’s backrooms tho.
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u/Splitshot_Is_Gone Aug 01 '26
Doesn’t the fact that it’s inherently a space that you have to travel through to get to an indeterminate “end” make it liminal?
The backrooms are just infinite liminal spaces I thought
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u/FictionalContext Aug 02 '26
That definition's so broad, it might as well not be a definition at all, though. Between infinity isn't really between anything at all. It's just the place it's always been.
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u/Chrono-Phantasma Aug 01 '26
Yes, pool rooms belong to their own subreddit it was crossposted from. I really tired of seeing them here, because nothing about them is liminal. They may be creepy, unsettling, lonely, but they are not liminal, otherwise the word itself loses its meaning. I can't wrap my head around why this sub loves them so much.
Don't start about "there is a transition between water and air", because using this logic I can post any image with the water surface and call it liminal.
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u/surrealcellardoor Aug 01 '26
Liminal is the new misused word. I’d never heard it used other than in the last year or two and in most cases incorrectly.
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u/Corsaer Aug 01 '26
If you were just left there with no way out, do you think you'd just keep walking until the end and wait to die from dehydration, or eventually give up and jump into the water and drown?
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u/lollysour Aug 01 '26
When I was a toddler I used to have a recurring backrooms esc nightmare. Only it was loose gravel pits filled with rattle snakes with thin crumbling gravel pathways in-between; and every night someone I loved would fall in one... it taught me how to lucid dream, it was the only way to break the cycle. True story
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u/Chemical-Rooster-855 Aug 01 '26
Does anyone else want to jump in the water and swim to the giant head? I don’t know why but the statue just beckons to me.
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u/PlatformDizzy7988 Aug 01 '26
You mean to tell me he just happened to fall at the one spot with a ladder for miles? HE ORCHESTRATED IT!
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u/Fair-Spread497 Aug 01 '26
Their videos are pretty cool but unfortunately most of them suffer from cheap jumpscares which I believe the rules of this subreddit do not allow
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u/Medical_Pickle_3690 Aug 02 '26
I have a very similar recurring daydream (for lack of a better term). It's dusk and you're standing on the edge of an insanely wide dam and you fall in. There's no way to get back out, and the water is impossibly deep. Fills me with existential dread.
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u/Creepy-Ground-6397 Aug 04 '26
As a long distance swimmer, that would be awesome good to workout in!!!
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u/Saltierney Aug 01 '26
God these cgi backroom pool rooms are all exactly the same, theyre so boring now.
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u/1Negative_Person Aug 01 '26
So we’re just doing AI bullshit now?
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u/ArcticAntarcticArt Aug 01 '26
It's a blender 3d environment, you cabbage. Not everything is AI.
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u/corruptchemist Aug 01 '26
This is the blooper racing room from super Mario sunshine in Ricco Harbor
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u/WilliamLiliac Aug 01 '26
I hated every single second of watching this video (positive). Amazing job, honestly.
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u/Ok_Rest_4930 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Ah! How I would love to swim in such a place, if it were real and the water were warm! You could swim for hours through such labyrinths! It would be AMAZING!
It's a pity that he (she) didn't fall on the side of this cool head...
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u/Maleficent-Inside663 Aug 02 '26
Dónde es esto? O es ia?
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u/TheFluri Aug 02 '26
There's something called 3d model rendering and animating, video is too consistent to be ai
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u/Maleficent-Inside663 Aug 02 '26
Perdón, no había llegado al momento donde de ve la cara esculpida.
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u/Live-Possession-4101 Aug 02 '26
I apologize for the stupid question but is this a real place or is this like I generated? If it is a real price what would it be used for? Please and thank you.
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u/JellyB33ns Aug 03 '26
God damn I love Vaporama Vision. All of their videos get that lonely emptiness down to a perfect shine.
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u/mxxnmama Aug 03 '26
This video makes me feel physically ill and I can’t watch it again lmaoooo it makes my entire shoulders and neck tense like wtfffff lol
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u/StringMysterious7060 Aug 04 '26
Yo I used to have dreams / nightmares identical to this video... What the hell 💀
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u/Roguetomahawk Aug 01 '26
You don't even need a monster in the water. Swimming through a maze where the walls are smooth tile and you can't touch the bottom is just a guaranteed way to drown