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The term “liminality” was coined in 1909 by the Franco-German ethnologist Arnold Van Gennep in his research into rites of passage in different cultures and can be traced back to the Latin word limen, which means «threshold». Considered hybrid spaces, thresholds allude to a doorway, they open up the gates to the unknown and pinpoint the moment at which something stops being what it was to become something else. The very essence of human experience entails stepping across a threshold as we leave the maternal womb. Stepping across a threshold means crossing the boundary between two states: sleep …