{"id":93633,"date":"2016-07-07T02:32:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T02:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/07\/places-where-reality-is-a-bit-altered-2\/"},"modified":"2016-07-07T02:32:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T02:32:54","slug":"places-where-reality-is-a-bit-altered-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/07\/places-where-reality-is-a-bit-altered-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Places where reality is a bit altered:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/you-deserve-a-rhink.tumblr.com\/post\/146899022170\" target=\"_blank\">you-deserve-a-rhink<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mariaschuyler.tumblr.com\/post\/143304500035\" target=\"_blank\">mariaschuyler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/atavanhalen.tumblr.com\/post\/143251478426\" target=\"_blank\">atavanhalen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/you-wish-you-had-this-url.tumblr.com\/post\/143244803790\" target=\"_blank\">you-wish-you-had-this-url<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/coolpepcat.tumblr.com\/post\/143241578799\" target=\"_blank\">coolpepcat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/genesisdoes.tumblr.com\/post\/143230168760\" target=\"_blank\">genesisdoes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ghostfiish.tumblr.com\/post\/143204770020\" target=\"_blank\">ghostfiish<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/reveille413.tumblr.com\/post\/143199462642\" target=\"_blank\">reveille413<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tootsie-roll-frankenstein.tumblr.com\/post\/1\/undefined\" target=\"_blank\">tootsie-roll-frankenstein<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2022 any target <br \/>\n\u2022 churches in texas <br \/>\n\u2022 abandoned 7\/11\u2019s <br \/>\n\u2022 your bedroom at 5 am <br \/>\n\u2022 hospitals at midnight <br \/>\n\u2022 warehouses that smell like dust <br \/>\n\u2022 lighthouses with lights that don\u2019t work anymore <br \/>\n\u2022 empty parking lots <br \/>\n\u2022 ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods<br \/>\n\u2022 rooftops in the early morning <br \/>\n\u2022 inside a dark cabinet <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>playgrounds at night<\/li>\n<li>rest stops on highways<\/li>\n<li>deep in the mountains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>early in the morning wherever it\u2019s just snowed<\/li>\n<li>trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic<\/li>\n<li>schools during breaks<\/li>\n<li>those little beaches right next to ferry docks<\/li>\n<li>bowling alleys<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>unfamiliar mcdonalds on long roadtrips<\/li>\n<li>your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep<\/li>\n<li>laundromats at midnight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>what the fuck<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>galeries in art museums that are empty except for you\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>the lighting section of home depot<\/li>\n<li>stairwells<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2022hospital waiting rooms<\/p>\n<p>\u2022airports from midnight to 7am<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 bathrooms in small concert venues<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I just got the weirdest feeling I swear<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>OK LISTEN THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS!!!<\/p>\n<p>A lot of these places are called <b>liminal<\/b> <b>spaces<\/b> &#8211; which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you\u2019re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we\u2019re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.<\/p>\n<p>The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for <b>context<\/b> &#8211; we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN\u2019T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep &#8211; all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like\u00a0\u201cI already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.\u201d Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate\u00a0\u201cdanger\u201d impulse but we\u2019re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Listen I am very passionate about liminal spaces they are fascinating stuff or perhaps I am merely a nerd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If I can add a couple more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your grandparents house when you\u2019re no longer small<\/li>\n<li>Getting out of the car when you\u2019ve been driving for hours and you find people with a different accent<\/li>\n<li>Hotels in the small hours of the morning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you-deserve-a-rhink: mariaschuyler: atavanhalen: you-wish-you-had-this-url: coolpepcat: genesisdoes: ghostfiish: reveille413: tootsie-roll-frankenstein: \u2022 any target \u2022 churches in texas \u2022 abandoned 7\/11\u2019s \u2022 your bedroom at 5 am \u2022 hospitals at midnight \u2022 warehouses that smell like dust \u2022 lighthouses with lights that don\u2019t work anymore \u2022 empty parking lots \u2022 ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods \u2022 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/07\/places-where-reality-is-a-bit-altered-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Places where reality is a bit altered:&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[235,4224,2595],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}