How to describe

First impressions, not analysis

The best sessions come fast. Whatever arrives first — a color, a shape, a feeling — is usually more trustworthy than what you talk yourself into after a minute of thinking. Don’t reason your way to an answer; report what’s already there.

The tap dimensions

After you take a target, a session walks you through a short series of paired questions, spoken and shown one at a time. Each is a straightforward either/or, plus an unclear option — never open-ended, never asking you to name anything.

They cover a handful of plain sensory dimensions: setting (outdoors or indoors), framing (close-up or wide), how crowded a scene feels (busy or sparse) and how it’s arranged (ordered or chaotic), light (bright or dark) and color (warm or cool, vivid or muted, plus a dominant-color tap), shape (rounded or angular) and origin (natural or man-made), the presence of water, whether the scene holds still or moves, whether it feels alive or lifeless, and how it would feel to stand in it — stable or unstable, safe or threatening.

Unclear is a real answer

If nothing comes for a given question, tap unclear. Guessing to fill a blank doesn’t help your session — it just adds noise. Unclear costs you nothing, and it’s always the honest choice when there’s genuinely nothing there.

Don’t overthink it

There’s no advantage in deliberating. A session is short by design — the impression you get in the first second or two is usually the one worth reporting. If you find yourself weighing two answers, that hesitation is itself information: it usually means the honest answer is unclear.

Describe, don’t interpret

Resist naming what you think you’re looking at. If an impression leans toward water, tap toward water — don’t decide it must be a lake or a pool. The dimensions are deliberately plain: they ask what a scene feels like, not what it is.

The confidence step

At the end of a session, you’ll rate how clear the whole thing felt, zero to ten. This is a note for you, not a grade — it doesn’t affect your session’s score.