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Rest stops on highways are liminal spaces where the veil is thin and nobody can tell me differently

Explain

The explanation is that liminal spaces are in between places that bridge Here with There, so in fairy tales we often have the Fairy Ring, the Forest Clearing, the Sudden Misty Foggy Forest, the Bridge, the River, graveyards, in some cases

We also have a ton of american urban mythology around famous roadways and sites off the sides of roads

Archetypes like these occur to mark the places in the world where the veil goes thin and humans can have extra-worldly experiences, out of the ordinary way of living

So why wouldn’t transient spaces like rest stops where everyone is just passing through from one place to the next, never stopping for too long, not be a liminal space where spirits frequent, too

Especially since nobody would know if they were real or not

This…explains the feeling I get at rest stops really well…

i have to reblog this because this perfectly describes the way i feel about airports and hotel lobbies, and i know that a lot of people feel this way about airports, that they’re these surreal edge-of-reality transitional spaces, but i’ve never thought about them as liminal spaces connected to folklore and mythology, and that makes so much sense, in terms of why we subconsciously react to them the way we do, and i just love this a lot

also, the idea that liminal spaces have a mystic power to lie between two dimensions also really makes me think this is probably why airports and hotel lobbies play such a huge role both in inception the film and inception fanfic.