If you’re in a psychological liminal space, you’ve moved away from something mentally familiar and comfortable and toward a new idea, perspective, personal commitment, or area of self-growth.
https://www.healthline.com/health/liminal-space-psychology#benefits
Liminal space images depict transitional places that are eerily empty of people, conveying a sense of "in-between". They can evoke moods of nostalgia, sadness, surrealness, or eeriness, and can elicit both comfort and unease.
Subjects: Empty hallways, abandoned malls, nearly empty parking lots, stairwells, roads, corridors, or hotels
Aesthetic: Eerie, uninhabited, unsettling
Moods: Nostalgia, sadness, surrealness, eeriness
Responses: Comfort and unease
Time period: Often evoke the late 1980s or early 1990s - Wikipedia
The winter holiday season is a time when liminal spaces of the mind come into play transitioning into a new year from the old.
Planning on leaving the old behind and bringing in the new.
Sometimes leaving comfort for the unknown and sometimes leaving what was uncomfortable for a new start, with hopes of a better but unknown beginning.
Do liminal spaces give you comfort and spark your imagination or do do they create a feeling of unease. How do you feel when looking in from the outside? Excitement or dread. Something in between?
As you head out to holiday gatherings this season check your mind set and feelings and be aware when in liminal spaces of your comfort level and then think of where you are going and where you want to be.
