it's time to start memeing.

She worried it was getting dark out — then it was getting light out. They ended up in someone else’s field, in someone else’s car — an early morning joyride, and a sunrise collision.

Years later, he’d think of this as the moment he himself started drifting.

math textbooks are the best

rest stops on highways

trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic

schools during breaks

those little beaches right next to ferry docks

your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep

the lighting section of home depot

Any ‘in-between place’ or place of transition that are meant to be throughways to one place to the next tend to cause that. Rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports and all these kind of places feels weird because their existence isn’t about themselves, but the things before and after them. They serve no purpose outside it, so the reality feels altered there because we are not supposed to be on them for a long period of time.

Our brains tries to get context for everything, so when it tries to get info for these places and can’t find anything that fits it activates the ‘danger’ mechanism. An empty classroom or a museum? That must be something wrong with it , my brain can’t process this place that is supposed to be packing with people completely empty. An hospital hallway? What comes before and after it?

Some companies, like McDonalds, also have a strict code of how all of its franchised stores are supposed to look like, so all units looks similar not only in your town but all across the state and the world so you see something familiar but that’s not quite right.