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25.07.2024 - 16:25 / insider.com
As a kid who dreamed of being a professional artist, I spent hours at an abandoned dairy farm near my childhood home.
The place looked like it had been raptured, and I experienced a curious feeling, often referred to as "anemoia" — nostalgia for a time that isn't one's own. This feeling brought me serenity, though in recent years, I've accepted that strange sensation was likely an overactive imagination. The private sanctuary of the abandoned dairy farm shielded me from a sometimes grim reality and taught me that my imagination can be more than a place of wonderment; it can also be a place of healing.
After the dairy farm burned down, it slowly faded from my memory. However, I continued to explore abandoned places well into puberty — during the beginning phases of a long battle with mental illness. In each ruin, I felt that same sense of serenity from the dairy farm. The practice of exploring abandoned spaces calmed the symptoms of what eventually became a cyclothymia diagnosis — a rare mood disorder — much later in life. As I got older and moved away, my childhood fascination with abandoned spaces almost vanished completely.
In May 2020, I woke up from a dream about the dairy farm, and that same feeling of serenity resurfaced, the first time I'd felt grounded in months. At that point, the COVID-19 pandemic had already torn into the US, and my germaphobe-centric anxiety took over.
Though I knew I wasn't alone in the collective feeling of isolation, my mental health began to decline rapidly. I lay in bed, thinking about the abandoned dairy farm, and I wondered if there were any abandoned buildings near where I live in the Hudson Valley, New York. I quickly Googled "abandoned spaces near me." As it turns out, they're everywhere— and I realized that I'd stumbled on a hobby I'd never heard of: urban exploration.
"Urbex" is a blanket term that refers to an underground, global community devoted to adventures in search of the architectural unknown — and not just in urban areas, but in suburban and rural areas too.
"Urbexers" are respectful admirers of the past who understand the historical, cultural, and political significance of largely unexplored spaces. Exploring ruins can be a dangerous hobby and often comes with its own range of liabilities. The elements and time have compromised some structures, while others were likely never that safe to begin with.
Discovering "urbex" somehow felt vindicating: Apparently, I'd been an urbexer for decades. As I started to venture out across the world to nearly 60 different abandoned spaces, I felt my imagination reignite the way it did when I was a kid at the dairy farm. I began to write about my experiences at every abandoned space.
In each room, floor, and building,
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