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submitted 7 months ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

https://lemmy.world/c/liminalspace

You watched Severance? Many of the areas in the show are liminal spaces. Always a bit creepy and odd and something just feels off when you're in them. You can't put your finger on what it is but it's not quite right.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I think I just don't have the liminal space gene. I've watched Severance and have seen a ton of other spaces people call liminal but I've never felt anything creepy or unsettling about them at all.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    It’s a space that has no purpose except transit. Therefore there is no thought of comfort in its design. When you see these spaces your brain has a reaction of “getting through it as soon as possible”. There is probably also something in our ancient survival instinct that lingering in open space like that could be fatal.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I know what they are. They still don't work on me.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    Have you frequently moved house, moved to new homes, apartments, lived in a car, anything like that? Hiked a long ways, for a long while?

    I was homeless for some years... and yeah... almost everywhere you are is a liminal space, and eventually... it all becomes just another space, it loses that kind of strangeness, as you spend more and more time in places you're not really meant to be in, and the places you think you can stay in, well, they turn out to be hostile and temporary too.

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