The Backrooms

The Backroom is strangely nostalgic for anyone who fall into it Level 0, often the initial entry point into The Backrooms, is a vast, non-linear space resembling a commercial building's back rooms. It features worn yellow wallpaper, damp carpet, suspended ceilings, and harsh, buzzing fluorescent lights. Its hypothetical size is estimated at six hundred million square miles, though this measurement is unreliable. The primary dangers are dehydration, starvation, and exhaustion due to a lack of resources, as well as environmental hazards like shifting walls and falling ceiling tiles. The level exhibits several phenomena: Nonlinearity: Movement in a straight line can lead back to the start, and walking in opposite directions reveals different rooms, making navigation difficult. Wireless technology malfunctions here. Isolation: Contact and communication with others are impossible. Groups entering Level 0 are immediately separated, and bodies of those presumed dead are never found. Psychological Damage: Extended time in Level 0 can cause delusions and hallucinations, including increased light hum, déjà vu, gibberish speech, disappearing apparitions, scraping sounds, and phantom footsteps. It's believed prolonged exposure triggers "The Wretched Cycle." Level 0 is devoid of any life forms other than the wanderer. Any perceived "beings" are not real and should be avoided. Access to Level 0 occurs by bypassing reality's boundaries or from other Backrooms levels like The Hub. The only exit is by "no-clipping" into Level 1, which can happen randomly. Newcomers must quickly adapt to the environment to escape. The document describes "The Void" as an ephemeral, lightless, and boundless space temporarily accessible during "noclipping"—a process of temporal phasing that allows bypass of spatial reality. Noclipping occurs by exploiting unstable sections of matter, causing surfaces to temporarily lose physical boundaries. During this process, one experiences darkness and a falling sensation, which is actually a temporary stay in The Void. Individuals who go missing after noclipping are believed to have not gained enough momentum to exit The Void, continuing to fall endlessly. Those who return claim to have simply "fallen into" another level. This suggests that all levels of the Backrooms might be located within The Void, challenging existing theories about interspatial travel. The document also touches on the dangers of noclipping, such as misjudging timing and prematurely ending intangibility, which could lead to severe consequences, though safety guidelines have made these risks largely obsolete. A subjective account, titled "The Call of The Void," describes it as a beautiful, constant, and pure space, offering a profound sense of peace and enlightenment. The individual expresses a desire to remain in The Void indefinitely and sadness upon being forced to return to a regular level, now feeling a duty to share their experience of its "permanent, everlasting beauty."