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A pair of nods to Victor Turner, my pals' Folklore advisor at Indiana University, would be "time-out-of-time" and "betwixt and between".
Being neither altogether of one state or another. Between worlds.
See also supraliminal.
I was always told that Bronze Age burial mounds were often placed on the brows of hills, in a liminal location, giving a feeling of ancestral belonging to the residents of the valleys below.
Interesting, knowing subliminal, but not this.
From Oxford Dictionary Online:
a. gen. Of or pertaining to the threshold or initial stage of a process. rare.
b. spec. in Psychol. Of or pertaining to a ‘limen’ or ‘threshold.’