This has some similarities to the cultural anthropological concept of ritual liminality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

This has some similarities to the cultural anthropological concept of ritual liminality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality The "doorway effect" is a more everyday phenomenon. Interesting that the idea that transitions result in disorientation scales from the mundane to the religious.