What do you know of something like this?

Yeah, this particular "orbiting circles" thing is somewhat common in sci-fi media, even the "it lines up and stops" part.

I think that's likely why you're getting negative responses. People look at your (neat) animation and go "oh, look generic sci-fi macguffin" but see you acting like you think it's some sort of hidden or alien knowledge then think you're a crackpot.

Hmmmmm

ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for cupcakes.

Don't really like them

It's funny how they act like they're in a conspiracy movie

When artists imagine new things, they don't generally ask people what those things are as if they must be a thing that really exists in the real world.

The animation you created does resemble something I've seen in, I think, a sci fi movie (I don't recall which). I've also seen, in real life, small desktop models resembling this (again I can't point you something specific, but I'm picturing it in brass). It reminds be somewhat of an astrolab, like https://p.turbosquid.com/ts-thumb/lT/AyGkQ1/TldU6igf/screenshot007/png/1546795156/1920x1080/fit_q87/55f4c2758f661655600a70a3859a1a46059d73cd/screenshot007.jpg but I'm pretty sure I've seen something that more closely resembles your animation.

Semantic Satiation

It reminds me of the ftl core in "event horizon" it also throws the ship through hell (literally).

This is actually forbidden knowledge. You shouldn’t have seen it, not sure why you have. It’s a self reinforcing recursive spiral fractal graph, the key to free energy from water. If you put it in a car, it can drive 1000 miles on just 1 gallon of water. Big tech and the capitalists doesn’t want you to know, so they probably did something to delete it from your memory. I’m surprised this post stayed up so long, maybe MOSAD has no eyes on Lemmy yet?

I wouldn't say it's "conduiting" or whatever. I visualise stuff and then take a whole pile of steps to turn that into something. Sometimes it's like an epiphany but I'm not of the belief that it's something just being inserted into my mind.

I don't know what this is, but it spooks me and man--I'd love to see it at scale. What are your impressions of it?

Also, I believe the jump ships in Foundation have these for their jump cores or whatever.

There's also at least one of these in the Elder Scrolls video games.

Its a common set of rings designed artistically to represent a complex, and practically magical object. Likely inspired by things like an orrery and other objects designed to track the orbits of the planets of our solar system.

Huh, that's interesting - when I imagine things it is almost always clear, not like a projected image, and definitely how it is/would be like if I was there. I have trained my imagination for running D&D games so that I can describe a scene better for my players.

I often imagine I go on trips to my imagined D&D setting, including things down to the details of feeling the woodgrain of the bar where I am sipping on an imaginary rum.

I wonder if your experience with aphantasia has made what I find normal to be a near mystical experience for you?

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Kind of reminds me of the instability of the solar system.

Asking is probably not usual. Some scientists do their thesises through seeing the result first. It's different to imagine something internally than to "go to"/"get" something else, the latter being something that someone else knows as well rather than self-born. Although I guess one could expand to the thought that everything internal ultimately is everything external yada yada