C.O.R.E. Wellness Center

LIMINAL

SCAD's first ever student-run haunted houseBook a session to relive your happiest memories.

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Sat. Nov 147–10 PMMontgomery Hall 120

C.O.R.E. Institute of Psychology

Feeling calm.
Stay a while.

C.O.R.E. Wellness Center is now accepting new patients for induced memory recall.

Remember how it felt to be home? Our recall therapy gently walks you back through the places you love most, rebuilt from your own memories, so you can rest, reflect and feel like yourself again. How do these places make you feel?

  • Induced memory recall.Relive the moments you never wanted to leave.
  • Nothing to wear.Just sit back, close your eyes and remember. Our team takes care of the rest.
  • Come back anytime.Most patients book their next session before they leave.
  • Established 1912.Over a century of caring for the human mind.

★★★★★

“Absolutely life-changing. I got to relive my greatest moments on the silver screen. I was the Wizard of Oz.”
Red C. Randy, recent patient

★★★★★

“I come in every week now. I honestly can't remember the last time I felt this good.”
Marion T., weekly patient

Results may vary. Some patients notice mild déjà vu or brief forgetfulness for a few days after a session. This is a normal part of the process and usually fades on its own. C.O.R.E. is not responsible for inaccuracies in recalled memories.

A snowy strip-mall entrance under an awning

Memory No. 1

The facade

It's snowing outside the clinic. Someone with a clipboard is checking people in.

A sterile waiting room with red chairs, a clock and a staff-only door

Memory No. 2

The waiting room

Close your eyes. Breathe. Listen to the clock. When you open them, the light has changed.

A dim childhood room with balloons, streamers and a birthday cake

Memory No. 3

The birthday

The candles are still burning. You're just in time. Where have you been?

A narrow clothing store hallway with racks and mannequins

Memory No. 4

The store

Middle School Blowout Sale. Find the new you.

A dim, narrow hallway. Room name withheld

Memory No. 5

Redacted

Confidential patient material. Not for public distribution.

Memory No. 6 and beyond

Classified

The rest of this session is confidential patient material. You'll have to see it for yourself.

im like mom and dad mixt togeter

Crayon on paper. Recovered from a confidential patient file. Nobody remembers drawing it.

Some faces are harder to forget.

Sketches pulled from patient memory captures: the Mother, the Persona, and something C.O.R.E. calls Repressed Emotion. You'll meet them in person.

Sketches of the Mother holding a birthday cake, the Persona as a faceless kid in a red hoodie, and Repressed Emotion as a tangled dark figure DO NOT DISTRIBUTE
C.O.R.E.Appointment
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Induced memory recall

Patient
Date
Sat. Nov 14, 2026
Time
Between 7 PM and 10 PM
Room
Montgomery Hall 120

Please arrive with an open mind. We'll take care of the rest.

CONFIRMED
LIMINAL teaser poster: an empty hallway with a floating balloon. Do you really remember it all?

Your appointment is approaching.

Show up any time between 7 and 10. A C.O.R.E. therapist will check your group in out front, ask a few questions about your memories and have you sign a waiver. After a short orientation in the waiting room, you're on your own. Keep moving forward, and when you see the sign that says exit, take it.

Warnings

  • Strobe and flashing lights
  • Sudden loud sounds
  • Scare actors
  • Dark, narrow hallways
  • Haze and fake snow
  • Please don't touch the actors or the set
  • Need out? Tell any staff member

Built by students.

Every wall, prop and scare in LIMINAL was designed, built and performed by SCAD students from all kinds of majors. It's put on by the Elevated Experiences Association together with PROD Club. EEA makes hands-on, story-driven live events for the whole student body, and this is the biggest one yet.

Elevated Experiences Association EEA × PROD Club
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Creative director
Preston McGurn
Production manager
Alba Zamora
Fabrication manager
Leo Dean
Art director / concept artist
Hannah Walk
Marketing & social
Jeremy Annel
Producer
Kiana Toms
Plus
every builder, painter, line operator and scare actor

About the Institute

Cognitive Observational Research Experiments.

For more than a century, the C.O.R.E. Institute of Psychology has studied one question: how do the places we remember shape who we are?

Our history

  1. 1912

    A shared beginning

    C.O.R.E. was founded on the combined research of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, shortly before the two famously went their separate ways. Their disagreement became our foundation: two maps of the same mind.

  2. 1913–today

    A century of observation

    Generations of C.O.R.E. researchers have studied memory, emotion and the unconscious, building one of the largest archives of psychological observation in the world.

  3. Recent

    The contactless breakthrough

    A research team led by Dr. Helena McDeen developed a way to read brain activity from across a room. No helmets, no wires. Just you and your own mind.

  4. Now

    C.O.R.E. Wellness Center

    For the first time, induced memory recall is open to the public. Our patients come back to the places they love, and they keep coming back.

How recall works

A session takes you from our waiting room to your own past in three gentle stages.

  1. Stage 1

    Calibration

    When you check in, a therapist asks a few simple questions about your memories. Your answers help us tune the session to you.

  2. Stage 2

    The Mnemonic Recall Sequence

    You close your eyes and listen. Familiar voices, music and everyday sounds are layered with soft gamma-frequency tones (30 Hz and above) that help memories surface on their own.

  3. Stage 3

    The Neural Imaging System

    Sensors built into our walls measure the faint magnetic fields your brain produces. The system reads activity in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, the parts of the brain that hold memory, place and time, and rebuilds the space around you.

The mind, as we understand it

Our method draws on both of our founders. Freud showed us what the mind hides. Jung showed us what every mind shares.

Sigmund Freud

The hidden mind

Much of what drives us happens outside awareness. Freud described three forces in constant negotiation:

The Id
Instinct. The part of us that wants comfort, pleasure and relief, right now.
The Ego
Reason. It balances what we want against what is real.
The Superego
Conscience. The rules, ideals and expectations we carry from childhood.

Beneath all three sits the unconscious: memories and feelings we no longer notice, but that still shape how we act.

Carl Jung

The shared mind

Jung believed every person inherits a collective unconscious: patterns that appear in dreams and stories across every culture. He called these patterns archetypes.

The Mother
Comfort, nurture and safety. The warmth we look for all our lives.
The Father
Structure, authority and guidance. The voice of the rules.
The Persona
The mask we wear for the world. Useful, until we forget it's a mask.
The Shadow
The parts of ourselves we would rather not see.

The goal of Jung's work was the Self: a whole person, every part acknowledged.

Why places?

Memories are anchored to rooms: a kitchen on a birthday, a hallway at school, a waiting room on an ordinary afternoon. Return to the place, and the feeling returns with it. As part of our public research, C.O.R.E. shares images composed during sessions. You may have seen them online, sometimes described as liminal spaces.

A waiting room with red chairs and a wall clock
Archive image 0412 · "waiting room"
A dim room decorated for a child's birthday
Archive image 0577 · "birthday"
A storefront entrance in the snow
Archive image 0019 · "entrance"

How do these places make you feel?

Leadership

“Everyone has a place they wish they could go back to. We simply open the door.”

Dr. Helena McDeen · Director of Research, C.O.R.E. Institute of Psychology

Our mission is simple: a complete understanding of the human unconscious. We will keep observing, keep listening and keep learning for as long as it takes. C.O.R.E. never stops.