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How it works

liminals.space takes your own photos of real, everyday places (a childhood bedroom, a school corridor, a dead mall), extracts memory anchors from them, and builds new Backrooms levels where those fragments return wrong. You upload exactly 2 photos, pay $4.99 once, and the AI rebuilds both rooms in full resolution for you to download. No account. No subscription. Your photos are deleted once the images generate.

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Step 1: Upload your photos

Start by finding 2 photos of places you actually remember: the bedroom you grew up in, the school hallway you walked every morning, the parking garage your parents used, the hospital waiting room that smelled of industrial carpet. Real places work best. Invented scenes don't, because the AI is rebuilding your memory, not generating a random environment.

A few things that help the output land:

You upload exactly 2 photos per session. You can run multiple sessions for different places.

Step 2: Pay once

Nothing is generated until you pay. One flat price unlocks the whole session: $4.99, one-time. No subscription, no account, no recurring charges. Before you pay, you can see exactly how the effect lands on the homepage examples — drag the "drag to remember" slider to compare a real place with its rebuilt backrooms version. That's the sell. Your own photos aren't shown until after you pay.

Payments run through Polar, which acts as the Merchant of Record. liminals.space never sees your card details, and there's no profile or login to manage afterwards.

Step 3: The AI rebuild

Once you've paid, the AI processes each photo individually. It does not apply a filter. What it actually does is read memory evidence: objects, materials, colour cues, doorways, shelves, carpets, ceiling height, and the emotional category of the place. Then it builds a new Backrooms environment where those fragments appear displaced, repeated, half-erased, scaled wrong, or fused into the architecture.

Crucially, it does not keep the original layout as the final scene. That is the product: the Backrooms found your memory evidence and reconstructed it incorrectly. A stranger sees a Backrooms level; you see pieces of your past in the wrong places.

Both rooms are generated at full resolution, each graded onto worn VHS tape so the image carries the grain and colour bleed of found footage from the era you associate with these spaces. Processing takes a short time per photo; you'll see each room appear as it finishes.

Step 4: Download everything

When the rebuild finishes, you download the whole session as a zip:

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2 photos · $4.99 one-time · download both in full resolution.

Privacy: the part that matters

Your photos are of places you remember. That's personal. Here's exactly what happens to them:

If you want to keep your rooms, download them before closing the tab. There's no account to log back into, and nothing is saved on the server.

Common questions

Can I use photos of more than one place?
Yes. Each session handles 2 photos, and they don't have to be from the same place. You could mix a childhood bedroom with a school hallway if you want both rebuilt. For more places, run multiple sessions.
What if I'm not sure the result will look right?
The quality of the output depends on the quality of the source photo. A blurry, backlit, crowd-filled shot gives the AI less to work with than a clear, room-filling, people-free one. Before you pay, the homepage examples show exactly how the effect lands — drag the slider to see a real place beside its rebuilt backrooms version. Then pick your two clearest, room-filling, people-free photos.
Is this a subscription?
No. The unlock is a one-time payment for that session. There are no recurring charges, no membership tiers that auto-renew, and no account to cancel.

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