Liminal

Excerpted from "The Psychology Behind Liminal Space" by Theodora Blanchfield, at VeryWellMind.com:

Liminal space is the uncertain transition between where you've been and where you're going physically, emotionally, or metaphorically. To be in a liminal space means to be on the precipice of something new but not quite there yet.

Being in a liminal space can be incredibly uncomfortable for most people. Brains crave homeostasis and predictability, and the liminal space is everything but.

Moby released an interesting project a few years back.  "Destroyed" was an album of liminal photographs coupled with music intended to invoke the feeling of being in a liminal space.

This was one of the tracks: