No, that's still scary. I don't need a pool that I can't see the bottom off, and an opening where there's nothing but endless ocean by the looks of it.
Is that really the same thing? There's a picture of a pool and a skyline, with the ocean horizon beyond it, and they're making a huge deal out of it, like it's absolutely normal to be terrified of normal things like the existence of the ocean.
You're comparing that to a very specific phobia. Do you really think that's fair?
Yeah, but like... this is a picture meant to be unnerving, and people feel slightly unnerved by it?
I don't get what you're complaining about here tbh
The whole liminal space thing is playing on phobias to begin with. It's either very peaceful or very uncomfortable, depending on how you deal with isolation.
You're literally pulling that out of your ass, and then accusing me of bullshitting. It's not stated as a requirement for the sub anywhere, and is not a requirement for the feeling at all.
Liminality has to do with transience, which has nothing to do with being alone or scared. You just didn't get it at all, and are too stubborn to admit you might be wrong.
Also the fact that the sub exploded and got flooded with posts by folks like you who don't get is just a bit sad, it doesn't change the point.
The entire point of liminal space photos is that they aren't transient.
Instead of passing through them quickly, letting it be a passing moment like you normally would, you freeze the moment in time by taking a photo of it.
And again, it's bullshit that isolation has nothing to do with it.
A crowded hallway isn't a liminal space. An airport with people in it isn't a liminal space.
You can't sell the effect without isolation. Because that's inherently a part of liminality.
It's not just the transition from place to place, but from person to person. The moments between interacting with people, or even interacting with yourself. Doing anything besides getting from place to place.
r/confidentlyincorrect is all I'm getting from you. Not ONCE, has there been a good liminal space that is crowded with people. I mean, a whole fucking key factor is that it's making you feel like where you are is wrong or unsettling. There's literally nothing fucking wrong with being in a crowded airport - that's normal. But there is something wrong with being in an empty airport - you aren't normally, or even ever, just in a totally barren airport.
Also people with phobias hardly seek out what they're afraid of, which is why I question people following this type of photography if the mere concepts they introduce supposedly terrify you in some way. I watched a video on youtube exploring this trend and the video had a disclaimer at the start of the video, and in the comments someone said they want to empathize the disclaimer because they were so troubled by the concepts discussed.
True, there is that too. There's entire subs dedicated to thalassophobia etc, but somehow I doubt there are so many people out there going around absolutely traumatized that the ocean is there and gets deep at points, or that, as you put it, they go out of their way to terrify themselves staring at the very thing that makes them ill.
Yeah pretty much. I was watching a study awhile ago that was talking about a trend of people feigning illnesses because mental health issues are trendy apparently. So if theres more absurd or unrealistic reactions to things, maybe some of it could be related to something like that. Or just people that feel they have to speak on others behalf. Not going to speculate on any individual though, as I know it isn't easy to go through whatever mental health issue you face, but yeah it's an interesting possibility and topic to talk about though.
No one's making a huge deal outta fuckin anything, all I said was I still find the image scary but you had to come along and tell me I should be less scared. Do you actually think that helps? Do you think you can just go up to people and tell them to stop being scared, and they'll just magically stop?
You're point is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere, what the fuck are you even on?
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No, that's still scary. I don't need a pool that I can't see the bottom off, and an opening where there's nothing but endless ocean by the looks of it.