Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A time lapse of a lava lamp being started and then turned off.
This lava lamp takes about two hours to start behaving the way you'd expect a lava lamp to behave.
About one hour in to the start-up process, you get some pretty interesting activity while the wax is still heating up.
Video of this time lapse with highlights:
Song used: Ethereal Relaxation by Kevin Macleod
"Ethereal Relaxation" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
A time lapse of a lava lamp being started and then turned off.
This lava lamp takes about two hours to start behaving the way you'd expect a lava lamp to behave.
About one hour in to the start-up process, you get some pretty interesting activity while the wax is still heating up.
Video of this time lapse with highlights:
Song used: Ethereal Relaxation by Kevin Macleod
"Ethereal Relaxation" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
