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Why do empty offices and abandoned hallways give us the creeps? Discover the theory behind the horror of liminal spaces and how 'nothingness' creates a sense of dissonance that taps into our core human fears.
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00:00They often say that some of the scariest things is nothingness.
00:04You know, it is the absence of, it is the stuff that's just a little bit off.
00:08And that's where those things like liminal spaces, like those spaces that sit in between,
00:12or they're empty, or there's an absence of, where there should be people,
00:16there should be a family, there should be something.
00:19We should have familiar noises or visual cues, but we don't.
00:24And that sense of being a bit off really does freak us out the most
00:29because then we put our own stuff in or we're left with questions
00:32or it creates this dissonance or this uncertainty.
00:34It's like, I should know what to do here, but now I don't.
00:37And that kind of taps into that core human fear.
00:42And there's all different levels of looking at those kind of spaces too
00:45that go deeper and deeper back into how we kind of look at ourselves and the world.
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