What Are The Backrooms in Dreams?
Exploring the Interstitial
Barren interconnected rooms, yellowed walls, labyrinthine desolation. Many have visited the Backrooms in dreams, and are only left mystified and somewhat uneasy upon waking.
Wait, the backrooms aren’t just some overcooked creepypasta?
Dear hearts you are in for a ride.
Whether you enjoy a spot of obscure digital lore or are interested in the nature of reality and the deeper implications of where we go when we dream, this article will be of some interest to you.
My Interest in the Backrooms
There’s no question in my mind that the Backrooms are a part of our collective unconscious, and that many of us have visited them in dreams. However, it seems that the rate at which people are dreaming of them has skyrocketed in recent years, parallel to an increase in other global shifts in our awareness such as the quickening of our perception of time and the witnessing of various Mandela Effects.
Since I can’t resist a good story and have known of this phenomenon since I was a kid, I thought it would be fitting to weigh in and lend a bit of first-hand metaphysical insight.
What Are The Backrooms Supposed to Be?
The easiest way to describe the Backrooms is that they represent a hidden part of our reality. The popular idea is that they are an “out of bounds” zone, like in a video game.
As it turns out, this isn’t all that far from the truth, but we’ll get to that later.
Naturally, one does not visit the Backrooms willingly. You wind up there by mistake, such as by “noclipping”1 through the boundaries of this world. The most common way people find themselves there are in dreams, however.
On the surface - especially for the non-occult among us - the very thought of something like this is absurd. So there is an alternate dimension beneath, outside, or adjacent to ours that takes on the likeness of a dingy apartment complex? And people get lost there?
It’s a bit more complicated than that, but yeah.
The Backrooms exist on the periphery of our awareness, so while we can all experience it, how these spaces are interpreted vary slightly from person to person. That being said, there seem to be very strong commonalities that would indicate this isn’t just a few people having some kind of delusion.
There’s a lot more to unravel here, of course. For instance, why do the Backrooms feel so eerie, and what about claims that various Entities roam through its corridors? Do the Backrooms serve a purpose and if so, what is it?
Before going headlong into what the Backrooms are and what it means when we dream about them, I’m going to provide some insight on the connection between, energy, liminal spaces, and the mind. This will provide some much needed clarity.
Liminal Spaces
The mainstream Backrooms lore hinges on the idea that we naturally find liminal spaces eerie. A simple photo of an empty office space devoid of windows, equipment, or other people has a “something is off” kind of vibe.
This is understandable, but doesn’t quite capture the essence of the Backrooms phenomenon, nor the very real mysteries surrounding liminal spaces.
Ordinary liminal spaces are best defined as transitional areas that appear off because they are empty, neglected, or otherwise kind of spooky. Examples include empty department stores, back offices, access hallways, and large basements.
If you have ever stepped into a truly liminal space, you know intuitively that it feels “off” because of more than just the empty aesthetics.
From an esoteric point of view, there are several reasons why liminal spaces feel the way they do:
During the construction of large buildings, the entire area becomes etherically wiped. With the earth being dug up and all living things scattered and pushed away, it creates a kind of metaphysical blank slate. This neutral state is then filled with our energy, as the space fills with people working and moving about. However, natural energy dynamics no longer exist in these places, so the parts of the building that are less traversed become stagnant and stale metaphysically. The longer a space goes neglected or unused, the more likely it is to become malignant. These spaces set off our primal alarm systems because they are quite literally “wrong” from an energy standpoint.
This same unnatural emptiness is what increases the likelihood of experiencing paranormal phenomenon in such places, or so-called “glitches.” Since large artificial structures create pockets of dead or stagnant energy, a kind of unnatural ecosystem forms that exists apart from the normal flow of energy found in nature. It’s why these spaces are notorious for strange sightings, missing objects, time displacement, weird noises, and an oppressive atmosphere. It’s not your imagination playing tricks on you, these spaces are quite different than anything found in nature, metaphysically.
Some believe that such liminal spaces act as doorways to other dimensions or worlds, since there is less energy interference from other people and animals. Traditionally only secluded caves and mountaintops offered the same degree of emptiness and seclusion as these liminal spaces, which is why they are attractive to mystics.
If neglected artificial spaces all tend to produce similarly liminal conditions, this might explain why we collectively interpret the Backrooms and other “between world” spaces the same way.
The relationship between the Backrooms and these liminal spaces is that we are essentially dealing with the same phenomenon, just on different scales. A neglected series of backrooms in a large building is like looking at a small reflection of or representation of the Backrooms, which is a much larger, cosmic space with the same liminal properties.
The Backrooms in Dreams Are Not Dreams
Just as most other realistic and meaningful dreams are not actually dreams (by the standard definition), the same can be said here.
The Backrooms are an interstitial dimension, a kind of Between World that likely serves as a communication channel and hub for consciousness.
There is a reason why the Backrooms feel very visceral and why a sense of dread seems to hang in the air when wandering through them. You are in a Place You Are Not Supposed To Be.
One wonders how it is possible to wind up - from a cosmic point of view - in such a forbidden place. Whatever happened to divine checks and balances?
Any student of metaphysics knows that reality is not as neat as scientists and the religious like to portray it as. While there is a beautiful sublime perfection to it all, within this cosmic clockworks there are innumerable little wrinkles, many of which appear to us as glitches and synchronicities.
Given what quantum physics has revealed about the illusory nature of physical reality, is it really all that hard to believe that there are odd little pockets of the universe like this?
We’re dealing with an incredibly complex web of dimensions, all folded around one another, layered, interconnected, and governed by different thought-matrices and energy patterns. The “IRL metaverse” - or what we could call the omniverse, or All That Is.
It’s also telling that virtually every occult and spiritual tradition speaks of numerous other dimensions, dream worlds, shadow worlds, worlds above, worlds below, and secret places. Including places where humans cannot go, realms preserved specifically for the Gods or for the dead. Also places of purgatory and banishment, lost worlds cut off from the rest of reality. These are of particular interest as it pertains to the Backrooms.
Much of these accounts are merely different interpretations of the astral planes, but once you start thoroughly researching the subject certain patterns and repeating themes do emerge, most specifically, The Construct.
The Construct, The Waystation, and Other Interstitial Locales
You can’t fully understand the Backrooms phenomenon in its proper context without having a little background on The Construct.
The focus of much esoteric study, The Construct is considered by mystics to be our dimensional Base State. Popularized in movies like The Matrix, this place is identified by its white corridors, multitude of rooms and doors, and oppressive energy.
In The Matrix, The Construct is described as a shell program, used to load other programs. You could almost liken it to an operating system.
There are other instances, such as the one pictured above from Matrix: Reloaded, where the characters enter into an interstitial place full of doors that act as “back doors” all over the matrix.2 In other words it’s a means for entities (consciousness) to travel great distances across what we would consider space and time.
This door-riddled corridor actually has a functional resemblance to the Backrooms, in that it’s a sterile interstitial dimension that we are not meant to access. The two places are closely related but are definitely different.
Let’s contrast these different spaces:
The Construct
Incomprehensibly large, possibly spans or connects a multitude of dimensions.
Functions like some kind of interdimensional home base used by souls venturing from one locality to another. Possibly related to the Waystation / Train Station.
Well-lit, seemingly purposeful spaces.
Populated with other people, and what we refer to as spirit guides and angels.
Takes on the appearance of bright white “halls” - what many people claim to see upon death. Many in the modern era describe the Construct as pictured above, whereas in the past it was halls of white marble.
The Backrooms
Endless?
Lower density than the Construct. The Backrooms may function as a primitive operating system that knits other worlds together, or perhaps is part of the cosmic filtration system that keeps certain entities and forces from entering The Construct.3
Dimly lit, chaotic spaces. Portions of the Backrooms actually appear in disrepair or are falling apart, and others are nearly pitch black and completely devoid of function. Unlike the Construct, which has a more or less uniform appearance, certain sections of the Backrooms seem haphazardly cobbled together from human minds. It is for this reason certain traditions call these the Dumping Grounds, as it is thought this is where corrupted thought / energy winds up.
Finding other people is not nearly as common. Most of the “things” wandering around in there are on the edge of comprehension and should not even be classified as “demons,” although there is likely some crossover.
Themed levels. There are several accounts in history of other dimensions having a level structure. Any number of different "layers of hell,” “tiers of heaven,” numbered purgatorial realms, and otherworldly chambers are spoken of in various spiritual traditions. This is the human mind trying to comprehend the fact that reality exists on a spectrum. Every plane of reality is just a different wavelength, and as you tune into these different wavelengths, the nature of reality shifts. The tiered levels of the Backrooms are almost certainly a metaphor or visual representation of the gradient-like nature of our reality.
It’s easy to write off the accounts of such places as delusions. Yet their uniformity across multiple traditions and time periods is very noticeable.
Even today many who have near death experiences say they see halls of white, long shining corridors, white rooms where angels and other people speak to them. There is some connection between the journey of the soul from one plane or body to another, and these corridors of light.
As interesting as the Construct is, however, it’s not nearly as bizarre and intriguing as the Backrooms. Is there any evidence that people have visited this interstitial place before, and if so, how and why?
The Waystation
Similar in appearance to the Construct.
Often interpreted as a subway station in dreams.
Meant to ferry souls from one dimension to another. A series of wormholes?
Guarded by entities, known variously as the Train Man, the Conductor, the Hat Man, etc.
Esraidambol
Less coherent than what the Backrooms are portrayed as.
Endless plane of discarded memories made manifest.
Mostly “outdoors” as opposed to a closed indoor space like the Backrooms and the Construct.
By far the most rare to encounter. Vast majority of the population will never dream of this place, since it is cut off from the stream of life.
Possibly includes “back door” entries into heaven and hell, as well as the Backrooms.
The important takeaway here is that reality is structured in a way that naturally results in these interstitial zones.
Whether you think of reality as a computer simulation or a mishmash of dimensions, or the mind of God, or whatever else, it would seem that we are dealing with two very distinct types of places. Dimensions, and the places that connect and surround said dimensions.
This topic easily warrants a tome or two so I won’t go too deep in the weeds. It’s enough to make a distinction between a realm like ours, with higher and lower densities (astral, etheric, physical), and a band of frequencies (alternate dimensions), and what resides between and outside of these spaces. It’s these cosmic crevices that we recognize as the Backrooms, along with any number of other interstitial locales.
Exploring The Real Backrooms
A friend of mine once said that, “everyone becomes a conspiracy theorist when they start paying attention.”
While I’m not one to throw around conspiracies just for the hell of it, I have to believe the recent surge in content and attention surrounding the Backrooms is meant to deter people from uncovering anything meaningful about the subject, at least in part.
You can spend hours researching the topic online and all you will come away with is a bunch of game walkthroughs and some history on the “found footage” video by Kane Parsons.
This is telling, because dreaming of the Backrooms is actually not all that uncommon. I’ve personally met several people who have had dreams taking place there, and there are plenty of modern and historical accounts.
It’s almost as if this barrage of new media has buried anything related to the actual topic and replaced it with a sanitized, harmless, mainstreamified version.
Not to say that everyone universally referred to this place as the Backrooms prior to the now famous 4chan thread from 2019, but it was one of the more common ways of describing it. I used the term as a kid, when I wrote about a, “maze-like series of backrooms” in one of several dreams that I will elaborate more on below.
History is littered with references to labyrinths and various interstitial realms, and these accounts continue up to present day. Something interesting to note about many of the modern Backrooms threads and video comment sections online, is that they are full of comments that go something like “cool video, really reminds me of that backrooms dream I had when I was 4…”
You see this kind of message pop up again and again. While you certainly can’t go off of such comments as proof of anything, many of them ring true and align exactly with my own personal accounts as well as those of other people I do trust.
Some initial observations on universal backrooms experiences:
Walls a shade of dingy yellow / light brown. Often interpreted as wallpaper, aged drywall, or stone.4
Floors usually either bare stone or yellowed carpet.
Although many parts are well lit, much of the backrooms are covered in darkness. When there is light, it seems to emanate from modern day lighting fixtures. You will rarely see lanterns, candles, fires, and such.
Out of place furniture and other items.
Architecture you would not see in this world, such as corridors too narrow to fit through, staircases that have a pit in the middle, crawlspaces that connect rooms instead of doorways, walls with slats, ramps, and windows that look out to other rooms instead of the outside.
What can only be described as “puzzle elements.” Doors with locks that take a certain kind of key, signage with arrows and other guides, cryptic markings and messages written on the walls, and various items.5
There is an almost universal feeling of fear and unease when in the Backrooms. The “bad dream” feeling, that instinctual gut sensation of something being wrong. Based on my findings, there are varying degrees of this, ranging from mild unease or a kind of numbness, to outright fear.
Getting followed by a shadowy humanoid figure with no face.
The dreams often feel very real, or at least more real than the average dream.6
Another important quality of the Backrooms is the aforementioned tiered structure. It is not simply one labyrinth, but many stacked on top of one another. Some parts of certain levels can only be accessed from other levels. It is both a horizontal and vertical maze.
So what can we deduce about this place based on these points?
First, it’s obvious that this is a place of “mind stuff.” Given that most of our reality probably falls into this category, it makes a lot of sense.
All thought is energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed.
I’ve been interested in the lifecycle of thoughts for years now. How they relate to our intent, their specific role in co-creation and manifestation, and what happens to them after we “send them out into the universe.”
Thoughts are things. They come and they go, they are crafted and processed. Some remain a part of our energy body, others are transmuted into other thoughts or become parts of physical objects or other people. Most just get recycled along with our intent as our karma gets processed.
What about thoughts that aren’t so easily processed (balanced)? Attachments and hardcore beliefs? Collective pools of fear energy such as those created in wars? Then there is that stagnant energy that forms in interstitial locations that I mentioned above. Does it have some kind of collective astral counterpart? Do all of these interstitial places “connect” somewhere in the ether?
A lot of this is wild speculation, but based on what I know about energy dynamics, there are some consistent themes.
A function of the Backrooms might be our collective effort to process fear, confusion, and loss and turn it into something meaningful. It could also be a meaningless jumble of stagnant astral locales stitched together through our attachments. There is also a chance that the Backrooms have nothing to do with us at all - we could be looking at some kind of primal base layer of reality, and this is just our pathetic attempt at making sense of it.
Much like the Greek myth of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth, there does seem to be some kind of reason behind the existence of the Backrooms however. The puzzle elements and the sense of progression (however confusing) seem to indicate that it may mirror the soul’s journey in some way.
For all we know, whenever we personally have to overcome a particularly nasty trauma or block of negative energy within us, we may wind up (astrally) in the Backrooms.
There is a distinct feeling of not belonging whenever one wanders through the Backrooms. Everyone I have spoken to on the matter agrees: you aren’t supposed to be there. Whatever purpose they serve, it isn’t a natural part of the soul’s journey, it is something else entirely.
The reason why it feels so off and alien to us may be because it serves no purpose at all, at least from our vantage point of consciousness. This is a place that is apart from the stream of life, which is why certain cultures referred to these places are the bardos, or purgatory. They are realms cut off from ours, as well as all of the other astral and etheric locales out there.
These truly are the “Backrooms” of reality, a realm behind the scenes.
The Hotel
My own experiences with the Backrooms are fairly standard, however I consider the first visit to be the most significant because of my age and what life experiences I had to go off of at the time.
To this day I refer to this place as the Hotel because that is what I started calling it when I got older, although at the time I had no idea what a hotel was. That name came later.
The dream itself was very strange. I was only 3 years old, and at this point in my life had never been inside of a grand hotel or even anything resembling one.
I found myself in a dark corridor, with yellow light at the end. I recall being irrationally fearful, as if I had just been chased or already knew this place was dangerous, despite having no firsthand knowledge of it.
I reluctantly stepped toward the light. On either side of me, I could make out scribbles on the pale yellow walls. I will never forget how one cluster of markings looked. I remember a distorted theater mask and a simple flower with a frowning face in the middle. At the time when I saw the flower drawing on the wall, an incredible wave of fear washed over me that caused me to quickly scuttle through the remainder of the hall, into the room beyond.
There was more light in this room. It was large, with several doorways, and a higher tier visible to my upper left. There was also a stubby staircase that led to a drawing of a door, and a larger staircase that was obscured by the ceiling, so I could not tell where it led from where I stood.
The next thing I remember is being in a barren room without any doors or windows. I had to turn around and walk through a series of hallways, which led me to a dark room that had a small, obscure staircase and shadowy areas that felt wrong. There was also a square hole in the ground off to my left that I gingerly stepped around.
I walked through the door directly in front of me, which opened into a wider passage that had a jumble of pipes on the right side of the corridor. My next memory is of emerging into a massive space that had pale yellow walls and carpet, with numerous doors. My instinct was to run to the right, into the first door I could find, which only led me back to the room with the large staircase.
At this point I looked up and could see that second floor area, and a third above that recessed somewhat. There was also a light source overhead.
I felt I had to climb the staircase but I didn’t want to. I also felt short on time, as by now I was aware that I didn’t belong and that something would find me if I lingered too long.
So I started climbing the stairs. Once I reached the part of the staircase that was previously concealed by the overhanging ceiling, I noticed chunks of the stairs missing. I remember having to watch my footing carefully.
I finally reached a part of the staircase that did not have walls on either side. However, there was a large gap, three or four stairs were completely missing. This staircase was jutting over a pit that was several stories deep.
I attempted the jump, and all I remember was the sensation of just missing it, and then I woke up.
The nature of this dream so perplexing to me, even to this day. Imagine my surprise as a 3-year-old dreaming of this massive labyrinth full of long hallways, empty rooms, unfinished staircases, and other bizarre features.
So this place checked off many of the Backrooms boxes:
Inexplicable eerie feeling despite no obvious threat.
Yellow wallpapered walls and dingy yellow carpets throughout. (For reference, the carpets in my apartment growing up, the only ones I ever knew, were dark blue.)
No discernible light source, although most of the areas were lit well enough to see clearly. I vaguely remember the one larger room having some kind of fixture like an orb in the ceiling, but it’s very fuzzy in my memory.
Many doors (and doorways lacking doors), several of which led to empty rooms with no windows.
There were a few wooden chairs here and there, some of which were knocked over.
Several staircases would simply end early, the only way to reach the top was to leap over the gap and climb up.
As I recall, the unfinished staircase was actually the “wake up out of the dream” moment for me. As I walked up this one particularly long staircase, I discovered it ended around three quarters of the way up. In the gap you could see a floor far below that was beneath the one I had started on. I attempted to leap and grab hold of the next floor, but I just barely missed it and this is what jolted me awake.
I would go ten years without dreaming of this place again. When I did, not only did I revisit some of the areas I did before, but I found another route that allowed me to view that very same staircase but from the top looking down. Needless to say I did not attempt the jump.
The second and third times I dreamed of this place, I wound up in areas that were far darker and made the dream feel much more like a nightmare. This included some rooms that were connected only by pitch black crawlspaces that led to increasingly darker rooms. Some of these rooms had dilapidated walls that you could look out of to see dingy hallways of dark yellow or brown bricks. I actually used a gap in one of these walls to circumvent a door that could not be opened.
These three dreams are the only ones I have had where I consider the location strictly confined to the Backrooms.
The entire time I was in this space, it felt as though I didn’t belong. I was also acutely aware that I was in some kind of danger despite never seeing an entity.
Compared to other astral locales, I would say the Backrooms are of the same density but on a faraway frequency, just on the edge of comprehension. Their function, if they have one, exists apart from the normal stream of life.
My gut tells me that it’s a lost place, reality’s crawlspace. If the Construct represents all of the different pathways and rooms that connect the dimensions together, the Backrooms might be something cosmically adjacent, but not normally meant for us. I will elaborate on this more below.
Collective Interpretations of the Backrooms
There’s no way to prove definitively one way or another the true nature of the Backrooms, however there are a few conclusions I can draw with relative certainty:
Anyone can visit the Backrooms in dreams. Whether they are simply part of our collective unconscious or some kind of out-of-bounds astral world that exists independent of us, the phenomenon appears to be universal.
They are forbidden and are not supposed to be visited or seen, much in the way out-of-bounds areas of video games are not supposed to be accessed, despite the fact that anyone can at any time glitch into them.
The following section will include some interesting thoughts and imagery on the subject that may provide additional insight into just what the Backrooms are.
It would seem certain people are more predisposed than others to dream about the Backrooms. This seems to be the case for astral projecting while sleeping in general, as many people go their whole lives and never experience dreams that feel real.
This has more to do with a person’s current level of awareness than anything else - the frequency at which your consciousness resides. Why one person visits this place over anyone else, however, is something that can’t be answered at this time.
Backrooms Levels and Zones
From the Backrooms wiki:
Normal levels form the framework of the Backrooms, and vary greatly in size, danger, and inhabitability. Typical levels—for whatever value of "typical" can be expected from the Backrooms—tend to be infinite in size (though "bounded" levels are not unheard of), and often provoke a feeling of uncanny familiarity to those happening upon them. The laws of physics and nature as we know them cannot be relied on in the depths of the Backrooms; nevertheless, some of the more hospitable and stable levels are home to thriving communities, and some inhabitants have managed to survive in even the most dangerous levels.7
One of the universal themes of the Backrooms mythos is that of its tiered nature.
From a metaphysical standpoint, this checks out. The rest of reality is structured the same way.
Information on the nature of each specific level is very sparse. There is also a worthwhile distinction to be made here that multiple floors, or levels, of a similar-looking area could be said to comprise a zone.
The different zones each have a very distinct theme and look to them, and are what are classified as “levels” in the game, and in the popular lore.
I make this distinction because there are obviously different floors, or levels, that all resemble the same abandoned apartment complex, the same yellow walls and old carpet. While there are some unique elements that separate each floor, I would consider them the same “zone.”
This is only relevant because it would seem as though the different zones carry different properties that make them feel different in a fundamental way. They may serve different functions, or may represent different degrees of negative thought.
Throughout history, traveling through these zones traditionally represents the soul’s journey. This is both a metaphor of spiritual evolution and a means of describing a hermetic or scientific phenomenon.
Lucid Nightmares, Astral Projection, and Interdimensional Travel
When multiple people dream of a place that looks like an abandoned apartment complex, even if we have never visited such a place physically, this is likely our minds interpreting the liminal conditions as best as possible according to what we can comprehend.
Dreams are of course a very unreliable form of anecdotal evidence. Historical tales of mazes and purgatories aren’t much better
Luckily, we do have other accounts of the Backrooms. Students of Hermetics are all too familiar with these concepts. While the exact nature of our multidimensional reality remains elusive from a mundane scientific perspective, this is a thoroughly researched area of study in occult circles, and something I have been personally researching for over a decade.
Anyone can enter the Backrooms because all minds are linked, and the Backrooms are technically a projection of our collective negative thought channels, what are referred to as the Halls of Dender by mystics (Ne’tiv Machshava in Hebrew).8
“Every mind is a door,” according to the ancient schools of Hermetics. Mindspace takes many forms, and these liminal nooks in our reality are massive, due to the gross output of thought that spans the entire collective.
While the vast majority of all thought recycles back into our own realm (manifesting as the world around us), a tiny fraction of it cannot be processed through traditional means and therefore lingers outside of the normal channels indefinitely.9 These mental "hallways” are the bardos, endless mazes of dense thought matter that exist apart from the stream of life.
There is mention across many religious texts, including the Bible, of a place where lost souls go, where there is still potential for salvation even after death. These purgatorial realms are a metaphor for thought-spaces where we may become trapped due to attachments and trauma we have in this life.
Low vibration thinking patterns manifest into actual places in the astral, and because all minds are linked, all of these places seem to combine. Many repetitive thinking patterns that appear exactly the same across more than one individual are not independent thoughts, but simply an alignment with an already-constructed thought matrix that is navigable and solvable.
Although most encounters with these liminal spaces occur when we are dreaming, (during involuntary astral projection,) some can enter these spaces at will.
When we wind up in the Backrooms without wanting to be there, this can be classified as a lucid nightmare.
Whether these spaces are entered on purpose or by chance, those who do report consistent themes. The prevailing sense of foreboding, a feeling of not belonging, and something else that I haven’t covered much yet, that of being chased by dark faceless creatures.
If the Halls of Dender represent a kind of negative thought matrix, these pathways or astral corridors are surely used by all manner of sentient and semi-sentient energy bodies as a means of travel. From dimension to dimension as well as mind to mind.
One of the ways that people become “possessed” is through these doorways. Nodes of negative thought create gaping doorways for such things to pass through.
It’s clear given what we know about the Backrooms that these channels or pathways are not normally meant to be traversed by us. That doesn’t mean, however, that these places aren’t regularly traversed by energy bodies that are more native to these kinds of conditions.
Getting chased by one of these things could be akin to a psychic attack, an interactive astral representation of a negative thought form attracting toward us.
What if You Dream About the Backrooms?
What does it mean when you dream about the Backrooms? It largely depends on the nature of the dream itself.
If it feels lighthearted and irrelevant, it’s probably just a dream. Nothing significant.
However, if you dream about the Backrooms and it feels real, with logical time progression and a visceral element that puts your body into fight or flight mode, this likely wasn’t a dream at all. You just slipped into the Backrooms.
The key thing to remember whenever you dream and it feels real or significant, it’s because something in your energy brought you there. That doesn’t mean it’s not an accident, however.
Likely, as some of us go through life processing our thoughts and working toward a higher vibration or state of being, there will be certain thoughts or energy forms we are attached to that cannot be processed by ordinary means.
Are the Backrooms a real thing? Yes, if the hermetic understanding of the bardos lines up with the lived experiences of those who report on the Backrooms phenomenon. However, that doesn’t mean you should fear them or panic if you happen to land there.
Consider that all of us are waging a kind of spiritual war with ourselves. The battle for our souls is quite real, but it’s not as its often portrayed. This is mostly metaphor for the ongoing interplay between negative and positive energy, negative and positive thought.
At any given time, a particularly nasty low vibrational thought can entrap us, even consume us. Those who get lost and consumed in these thoughts may be wandering the Backrooms in the astral, or at least in part. The best way to combat this is by maintaining a higher degree of thinking, which releases the negative thought forms from your energy field, thereby severing your connection to the Backrooms.
Each extremely negative thought is a potential doorway to an unsavory astral locale. Not all of them, maybe not even most of them. But as far as I know, dreams of the Backrooms are not all that uncommon, which would infer that most of us are wrestling with various negative thought forms. This is just one way we deal with them, by astrally projecting into them in order to navigate them and make sense of them.
By consciously “going through” the Halls, we face the fear and complexity of the thought form in real time and therefore process it. Metaphysically, this releases our attachment to it and frees us of it.
No doubt some of us end up in these kinds of places by mistake however. I don’t necessarily think we are supposed to be consciously aware of the Backrooms - this energy processing is a background phenomenon. Sort of like how a computer program is loaded into memory. We don’t see those processes, yet they are integral to the operation of our computer systems.
Some say the shift in vibration that is occurring is making it easier to spot so-called real life “glitches,” and perhaps this is one reason why there seems to be an uptick in people seeing the Backrooms.
My take on it is, liminal spaces are both an opportunity to peak behind the curtain and perhaps work on ourselves a little. Maybe there is something we can learn about the nature of our thoughts or the universe by studying these strange places, whether they are physical or in our dreams.
What I do know for certain is, reality is far more magical, complex, and multifaceted than most of us are willing to accept. It’s intimidating, thinking about all of the different possibilities for what’s out there, how our multiverse interacts, the nature of thought and so much more.
It’s this magic that fuels my passion for such topics as the Backrooms, and why I will keep exploring them. I hope this information will help you do the same.
Noclipping is just a digital way of describing astral projection, where one is able to seemingly “pass through” solid objects and even the boundaries of one dimension into another.
In coding and computer programming, a "back door" usually refers to a hidden method of accessing a system, program, or device that bypasses normal authentication and security measures. Backdoors can be intentionally created by software developers to provide access to a system or program for maintenance purposes or to allow for remote access. However, they can also be created by hackers or other malicious actors to gain unauthorized access to a system. Backdoors can be very difficult to detect, even for seasoned professionals. Very often, only the person who knows of the backdoor can or will ever access it.
This latter scenario resonates as being close to the truth for most people. Those who have had the privilege (?) of visiting The Construct and who have conversed with the entities there, usually come away with the impression that it is guarded vigilantly. In this sense certain spirit guides / daevas / feina could be considered “regulatory entities,” their purpose is to keep watch over these kinds of spaces to ensure certain malicious entities never cross.
There are definite exceptions to the common “yellow” walled areas that have become the signature portrayal of the Backrooms in popular media. The most common other areas include places that look like attics or unfinished rooms with wooden floors and walls, basement-like areas, as well as the blue / white industrial looking areas. Some of these areas have exposed pipes, gates, grates, and other features. This gives some weight to the idea that the Backrooms could be some kind of collective representation of all stagnant pockets of energy all stitched together in the astral.
This is a running theme throughout most of these interstitial locales, so it is not unique to the Backrooms.
All involuntary astral projections feel very real, because they are.
The concept of habitable areas of the Backrooms makes sense, and lines up with dreams of other closely related interstitial zones that I have had. If these places are indeed purgatorial realms, there are likely billions of individuals wandering there, “lost souls” that are trapped for any number of reasons.
Thoughts are not just phantasms inside our heads. They are things. Yet they are more than “energy objects,” but hold their own locality at the same time. In other words, thoughts are able to be traversed. After all, the physical world is comprised of thought-matter as well, it is simply denser. All thought energy that is not processed and cycled back into the stream of life must go somewhere, it all exists on its own frequency, and can be visited.
The answer as to why this happens is simple. Choice creates unlimited possibilities or potential states of being, but not all of these states of being mesh with the expected rules or laws of this realm. There are also fail-safes in place to protect the integrity of this reality, which necessitates that certain blocs of energy be quarantined. Just as certain souls / thoughts / energy travel through different dimensions for cleansing and processing, certain other energies must be cut off altogether and go through an even more stringent processing process. If the extreme demonic hate / anger / perversion that these thoughts represent were allowed to cycle back into this world, it would become unbalanced and corrupted. This is the hermetic interpretation.