What is your personal definition of a liminal space? What places have you been that you feel were liminal?
This isn’t going to be a particularly creative definition, but I just use the term to describe anywhere where it feels for a moment like you aren’t quite in this world and, if you keep going, you’d pass into somewhere else entirely. For example:
The two most liminal vibes I’ve ever gotten were:
-Cathedral Valley in Capitol Reef, Utah at dusk. My dad and I drove out there late one afternoon to watch the sun set and it felt so very isolated in a very strange, visceral sense. We both walked in different directions and couldn’t find each other for over an hour, even though it should be impossible to lose each other in such a flat space.
Once I’d walked from the truck in between the two monoliths (the Temple of the Sun and Temple of the Moon), it seemed to take far longer than it should have to see the truck again from the other side. There was a moment when I was walking around the Temple of the Moon and the light changed around me but no matter how long I walked, I was getting no closer to where I’d started. Every little sound echoed off the rocks around me. I could hear a little Rock Wren singing from across the valley, but neither my dad nor I could hear each other no matter how much we shouted. There was an odd, rusty smell on the air with the sage.
-Highway 2 through Superior National Forest in the darkest part of the night, just before dawn, in the depths of winter. We’re always all alone on the roads up there, and the shadows flicker strangely in between the trees as we pass.
There are all these little snowy roads branching off from the highway, to boat launches and camp sites and whatever else. I’ve been down a lot of them during day light (and gotten my car stuck in a fair number), but at this time of day there’s this sense that You Must Not Take That Road not because of the snow or black ice or anything else, but because you won’t be able to turn back once you do.
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