Backrooms: Irrational Beliefs and Falsifiability

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*Backrooms (2026) spoilers contained herein.

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Backrooms

Previously unfamiliar with the Backrooms, a fictional location invented in a 2019 thread on the imageboard website 4chan, or corresponding science fiction horror web series, Backrooms, I recently watched the film Backrooms (2026). Summarizing the plot, one source states:

Backrooms, directed and co-written by 20-year-old YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Kane Parsons, follows Clark [Chiwetel Ejiofor] as he drags his assistant manager Kat (Lukita Maxwell), her boyfriend Bobby (Finn Bennett), and, eventually, his therapist, Dr. Mary Kline (Renate Reinsve), down the rabbit hole of this terrifying alternate reality with him.

It’s a slow-burn horror that relies on the unsettling nature of that uncanny limbo to build atmospheric dread before ratcheting up to true cosmic horror. It also has years of internet lore backing up its premise.

Rational and Irrational Beliefs

As is typically the case, I view films through the proverbial lens of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). Herein, I’ll provide a psychoeducational lesson that involves thinking and believing which is rational (in accordance with both logic and reason), or not (i.e., irrational).

Here, “logic” is the interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable, and “reason” is a statement offered in explanation or justification. For instance, a modus ponens syllogism uses the following logical form: If p, then q; p; therefore, q.

Before I provide an example, regarding the context used herein, it may be useful to know that one source states, “A theory is, in general, any hypothesis or set of ideas about something, formed in any number of ways through any sort of reasoning for any sort of reason.”

If every theory in which I believe possibly could be true or real (p), then every theory in which I believe empirically must be true or real (q). Every theory in which I believe possibly could be true or real (p). Therefore, every theory in which I believe empirically must be true or real (q).

This proposition follows logical form; yet I argue that it isn’t reasonable, because what could be isn’t necessarily what is. Thus, I consider this syllogistic belief as that relating to irrationality. Nevertheless, I have little doubt that at least one person on this planet disagrees with my outlook.

Noteworthy, my worldview is subjective (characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived rather than as independent of mind). Thus, not everyone agrees with what everybody else deems as rational or not. No matter how you may’ve been misled, not everyone is equal in our outlook.

Also, a rational view for one person may not be considered rational by members of a group. For instance, consider religion (a system of spiritual beliefs, practices, or both, typically organized around the worship of an all-powerful deity, or deities, and involving behaviors such as prayer, meditation, and participation in collective rituals).

Although I currently identify as agnostic (a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality, such as a supreme being, is unknown and probably unknowable), I once subscribed to the religious faiths of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and then Churches of Christ.

Falsifiability and Unfalsifiability

Looking back, I understand how my irrational religious beliefs weren’t likely to be swayed by evidence (an outward sign, or something that furnishes proof). At this point in the blogpost, it may be helpful to note that one source states:

Falsifiability is a standard of evaluation of scientific statements, including theories and hypotheses. A statement is falsifiable if it belongs to a language or logical structure capable of describing an empirical observation that contradicts it.

In the case of a theory, falsifiability requires that, given an initial condition, the theory must theoretically prohibit some observations, that is, it must make formal predictions.

When I said that “if every theory in which I believe possibly could be true or real, then every theory in which I believe empirically must be true or real,” the claim was irrational. Still, about a person using a dogmatic religious view, I invite you to consider what I stated in Unfalsifiability:

According to one source:

The fallacy of unfalsifiability / untestibility / unfalsifiable claims fallacy occurs when a proposition is presented with a claim that it is falsifiable, but the proposition is maintained as true no matter what evidence is presented. In other words, an unfalsifiable proposition is claimed to be falsifiable.

Perhaps you’ve heard people claim that beauty is subjective. Others argue that there may be some element of objectivity in relation to what people consider beautiful, on average. […]

Noteworthy, with unfalsifiability, the following logical form is used:

Logical Form:

X is true (when X is cannot possibly be demonstrated to be false)

Therefore, you can’t objectively falsify my claim about The Birth of Venus, nor can I absolutely prove my hypothesis is true. To put a final point on this matter, consider the following source:

An unfalsifiable argument can be qualified and amended at will. For instance, the statement “faith can move mountains” is unfalsifiable: if you cannot move mountains, that only shows that you haven’t enough faith.

As such, there’s no rational point to continue a conversation about my claim regarding the inherent beauty of the painting. After all, if you disagreed with my assertion, I could always retort, “Well, the fact that you don’t think the painting is beautiful only shows that you don’t know what beauty is.”

I think it’s important to know how the unfalsifiability fallacy works. Understanding how pointless so many matters about which people disagree, and how these disagreements may lead to conflict, we can begin to set aside irrational demands and simply agree to disagree with one another.

Succinctly, falsifiable claims are able to be subjected to empirical testing where a specific outcome could prove them wrong. Alternatively, unfalsifiable claims are evidently immune to testing, meaning no imaginable evidence could ever disprove them (e.g., religious beliefs).

Ergo, proposing that if every theory in which I believe possibly could be true or real, and therefore every theory in which I believe empirically must be true or real, I’ve made an unfalsifiable claim. Specifically, you can’t falsify the claim that Heaven possibly could be real.

One Nonscientific Theory about Backrooms 

Because I was unfamiliar with the lore surrounding Backrooms, I took time to investigate the matter after watching the film. Apparently, there are many nonscientific theories regarding the movie. Highlighting an eloquent examination of this matter, one source states:

“It’s a real place — and it’s built out of you.”

The thesis: This theory is the true center of the spectrum, and in my mind the most textually loaded reading on this entire list. The backrooms is both a real dimension and a psychic mirror. It physically exists — Async genuinely found it — but it builds and rebuilds itself out of the memories and minds of whoever is near it.

Clark, the failed architect, is literally drafting the impossible architecture from inside his own head. The place “remembers” people and renders them back as slowly degrading copies. Real and personal, at the same time.

This was my impression, as well. Memory is subject to reconstruction, as fallible human beings are virtually incapable of accurately remembering everything perfectly, so I eventually reasoned that the Backrooms were a form of distorted collective consciousness. The source continues:

The case for it. This is the reading the film hands you the most breadcrumbs for, and once you see it you can’t unsee it. The single most important clue is scrawled on a mural Mary finds: “The floor plan changed again. I don’t know who signed the plans, but the handwriting looks like mine.”

That is the movie telling you, in plain language, that the space is being authored — and that the author is one of its prisoners. Clark spent his life wanting to be an architect and failing. In the backrooms, he finally gets to design. He draws maps. The floor plan obeys him.

According to one source, “Memory rarely relies on a literal recount of past experiences. By using multiple interdependent cognitive processes and functions, there is never a single location in the brain where a given complete memory trace of experience is stored.”

Whereas the brain is a physical structure, the mind is an abstract representation of the brain’s processes. In Backrooms, the spectral dimension into which people enter appears to fuse both the brain and the mind. As the latter is an abstract concept, it’s malleable. The source continues:

Then look at the monster. Captain Clark, the giant, isn’t a random entity. It’s a swollen, deformed version of Clark’s own furniture-store mascot persona, the pirate-sultan he dresses up as to sell ottomans. His buried ego and shame, grown huge and given teeth.

The place built his self-image into a predator. And Clark all but narrates the mechanism for us at the dinner table: “This place builds them. Actually, more like it remembers them. And the more times it remembers something, the less it does.”

That’s not how a neutral physical dimension works. That’s how memory works. That’s how grief works — every time you recall someone, the copy degrades a little further from the original.

In similar fashion, I stated in What Dies, Kids? Everything, and That’s No Hokum. that “due to a reconstructed memory, whereby the mind sometimes distorts imagery from the past, [a person] imagines a frightening depiction of [others from the past]. This is normal. The source continues:

The clincher, for me, is the geography. When Clark moves through the backrooms, it’s the yellow office-maze of his world. When Mary makes her run for the exit, her stretch of the place looks different — more domestic, more suburban, more like her memories. Different minds, different rooms.

The backrooms isn’t one fixed map; it’s a mirror that reshapes itself around whoever’s holding it. It even explains a small mystery: why is Phil so eager to locate Clark specifically? Possibly because Async has realized Clark is reshaping the place — that a strong enough mind doesn’t just get lost in the backrooms, it renovates it.

When providing care for mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”), primarily through use of REBT, it isn’t uncommon to discover that people advertently and inadvertently reshape their rational or irrational beliefs which comprise their memories.

Person X may inflexibly demand of himself not to remember the time when he was raped by a female educator, representing an irrational belief about an unfortunate event. Therefore, he advertently blocks the real memory while reshaping a new one (i.e., the process of delusion).

Person Y may flexibly maintain that when she raped person X, her actions constituted a logical and reasonable belief about sexual attraction (i.e., what she subjectively considers rational). Thus, she inadvertently reshapes her perspective, creating an alternative memory in the process.

In Backrooms, Clark was ostensibly able to rationally and advertently alter his worldview, as others were able to traverse the cognitive and ethereal landscape of his recreation. When watching the film, I found this element subjectively fascinating. The source continues:

How it reads the ending. Richest of all five. The still-life Mary in the replica interview room isn’t merely a copy (Theory 1) and isn’t merely a symbol (Theory 4) — she’s the backrooms having learned her, the way it learned everyone before her.

She’s now part of its memory-architecture, a room the place can rebuild from her mind whenever it wants. The horror is recursive: the more the backrooms remembers her, the less of the real her remains, until she’s just furniture that used to be a person. Both literally trapped and personally consumed.

In some ways, this is the effect of the memory throughout one’s lifespan. The childhood friend to whom you were once so close is merely a figment of your imagination after memory reconstruction sets in over the decades, and the two of you haven’t remained in contact.

This is precisely the sort of subject matter with which I work when providing mental health care. Ultimately, if I can persuade a client to shift one’s perspective of imperfect memory from “horror” to mere indifference, then our work together is a success. The source continues:

Where it strains. It’s the most satisfying theory and also the least falsifiable — which should make you a little suspicious of how good it feels. A reading that can absorb literally any detail you throw at it has stopped being a theory and started being a religion.

And it rests on a mechanism — minds physically sculpting a real place — that the film strongly implies but never once confirms out loud. It’s a gorgeous inference. Emphasis on inference [the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former].

It was this view of the cited source that led me to post the examination in its entirety. Specifically, the source encapsulates how irrational beliefs function (e.g., person Y convincing herself that the rape of her student was an act of love, and thus feeling good thereafter).

When working with the persons Y of the world, I’m able to confront illogical and/or unreasonable beliefs. For instance, I may use a dispute which is empirical (originating in or based on observation or experience). “Person Y,” I may say, “what you did was against the law.”

“Love is love,” person Y may respond, using a tautological phrase. “And legal is legal, and illegal is illegal, and when was the last time you heard of someone being in trouble with the law for merely loving another person,” I may retort.

If person Y is capable of using thoughts and beliefs which are rational, she may then admit that although she subjectively views the rape of person X, a middle school boy, as a pleasant affair, the objective outlook of the legal system regards her nonadaptive behavior as contemptuous.

Therefore, her belief is subject to falsifiability. Unfavorably, many persons Y of the world remain willfully stuck in irrationality by instead reshaping their beliefs to those regarding unfalsifiability. For some people who’ve watched Backrooms, a similar effect may’ve occurred.

I initially thought of Backrooms to represent artificial intelligence, shifting to the view of a parallel universe, then considering the notion of a collective conscious, and after reading the cited source, I simply don’t know what to think. Speaking of which, the source concludes:

What it says the movie is about: that the spaces we get lost in are the ones we build ourselves, out of the parts of us we won’t look at directly.

I continue maintaining that this is concisely how the mind tends to function and malfunction. However, if this perspective of Backrooms is inaccurate, then I’m open to changing my mind. In consideration of all I’ve addressed thus far, it may be of some use to expand a bit on REBT.

REBT

REBT uses the ABC model to illustrate that when an undesirable Action occurs and you Believe an unhelpful narrative about the event, it’s your unfavorable assumption, not the occurrence itself, that causes an unpleasant Consequence. This is known as distress or disturbance.

Noteworthy, with virtually any undesirable Action that occurs, it’s your unfavorable Beliefs which cause unpleasant distress or disturbance (Consequence). Given this framing of self-distress and self-disturbance, it’s worth noting that one REBT source states (page 71):

REBT conceptualizes [distress] as healthy even though it is intense. Other approaches to therapy have as their goal the reduction of the intensity of negative emotions. They take this position because they do not keenly differentiate between healthy negative emotions (distress) and unhealthy negative emotions (disturbance).

Now, REBT keenly distinguishes between healthy distress and unhealthy disturbance. Healthy distress stems from your rational beliefs about a negative activating event [Action], whilst disturbance stems from your irrational beliefs about the same event.

Complete elimination of distress is highly unlikely in an impermanent and uncertain world wherein people conceptually suffer, struggle, and battle with, or merely experience hardship. Still, individuals often make matters worse for themselves by disturbing about such instances.

In particular, there are four predominate irrational beliefs which people often use to distress or disturb themselves: global evaluations, low frustration tolerance, awfulizing, and demandingness. When contemplating these unproductive beliefs, think of the acronym GLAD.

Worth noting, the two forms of should, must, and ought demands with which people most often distress or disturb are associated with use of absolutistic and conditional beliefs. Generally speaking, these scripts serve as inflexible commands used toward oneself, others, and life.

An absolute must narrative is, “You absolutely must do as I say!” A conditional should narrative is, “Either you should do as I say, or you should be punished!” Noteworthy, in REBT literature, demandingness of this sort is said to function as a primary appraisal mechanism of self-upset.

Global evaluations (i.e., self-downing, other-downing, and life-downing), low frustration tolerance (also known as frustration intolerance), and awfulizing (e.g., terrible, horrible, etc.) function as secondary appraisal mechanisms. Together, GLAD will make you sad or mad, etc.

While still functioning as prescriptive rather than descriptive, flexible use of recommendatory, preferential, ideal, empirical, moral and ethical, and legal ought beliefs won’t inevitably cause disturbance, as they may align with distress. Rigidity versus flexibility makes a difference.

Additionally, from a psychological standpoint, people distress or disturb themselves using a Belief-Consequence (B-C) connection. Of course, this isn’t to suggest that in the context of the naturalistic or physical world there is no Action-Consequence (A-C) connection.

From an A-C view, you begin reading this blogpost (Action) and you then become bored (Consequence). Sometimes, this happens when ingesting large quantities of poorly written information. Still, from a B-C outlook, you may also self-disturb when reading this post.

You make it halfway through this post (Action) and Believe, “Deric is a hopeless writer [G], as I can’t take his writing style, because it’s appalling [A], and no one must ever pay him any mind [D],” as you then self-disturb into an outcome of negative and unhealthy disgust (Consequence).

Addressing how people upset themselves with unhelpful attitudes, the ABC model incorporates Disputation of unproductive philosophies of life in order to explore Effective new beliefs. Whereas rigid beliefs cause self-disturbance, flexible beliefs result in an un-disturbed condition.

Imagine that you make it halfway through this post (Action) and instead Believe, “Deric is free to write whatever and however he pleases, and I don’t have to pay him any mind, because his writing style is subjectively unappealing, though not objectively so. I’ll simply stop reading.”

When using this malleable personal script, you then self-distress into an outcome of negative and healthy annoyance (Consequence). When given the options of unhealthy disturbance or healthy distress, which would you rather experience? You could also settle for neutral indifference.

In particular, you could use unconditional acceptance (UA) to relieve self-induced suffering. This is accomplished through use of unconditional self-acceptance (USA), unconditional other-acceptance (UOA), and unconditional life-acceptance (ULA).

With my approach to REBT, I incorporate author Stephen Covey’s concepts regarding the circles of control, influence, and concern, as well as an area of no concern. UA maps onto the circle of control (USA), circle of influence (UOA), and circle of concern and area of no concern (ULA).

The circle of control encompasses only oneself, the circle of influence encapsulates elements which may be subject to one’s sway, the circle of concern engrosses most matters one can imagine, and the area of no concern relates to all content which isn’t yet imagined.

Concerning your circle of control and USA, you could acknowledge that you control your reaction to poorly written blogposts. As well, regarding your circle of influence and UOA, you could admit that I’m only a fallible human being who’s trying to help people by way of a blog.

Also, of your circle of concern and ULA, you could reason that imprecation is the inescapable reality of life. As for the area of no concern, well, that’s the realm in which the Backrooms exist, and you can get lost in there. Why not keep that place in your imagination where it belongs?

If you’re looking for a provider who tries to work to help understand how thinking impacts physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral elements of your life—helping you to sharpen your critical thinking skills, I invite you to reach out today by using the contact widget on my website.

As a psychotherapist, I’m pleased to try to help people with an assortment of issues ranging from anger (hostility, rage, and aggression) to relational issues, adjustment matters, trauma experience, justice involvement, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and depression, and other mood or personality-related matters.

At Hollings Therapy, LLC, serving all of Texas, I aim to treat clients with dignity and respect while offering a multi-lensed approach to the practice of psychotherapy and life coaching. My mission includes: Prioritizing the cognitive and emotive needs of clients, an overall reduction in client suffering, and supporting sustainable growth for the clients I serve. Rather than simply trying to help you to feel better, I want to try to help you get better!

Deric Hollings, LPC, LCSW

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