the mood atlas

What the site is trying to work out about you, how it goes about it, and every answer it can arrive at.

how it asks

It never asks you to describe yourself. It asks about a door, a stone, the thing you would put in your pocket, the rate at which you tap, how long you hold a button down, where you put one mark in an empty field. It glances at the clock while you answer, and it knows how long it has been since you were last here. You get a different mechanism each time it asks, and whatever it concludes fades over a few days.

• The mechanisms are listed here once scripting is available. Without it, nothing is lost: every world below is a plain link.

every answer, and its world

Fourteen frames of mind, each with one world behind it. Nothing in this list is the default, and the site would rather you overruled it than took its word.

• the quiet room banked low
• the wish constellation looking up
• the diary in the long look
• the echo chamber ears first
• the lantern ritual wants a rite
• the terrarium minding something
• the weather lab weather coming
• the orbital weaver after symmetry
• the machine shop cold and clear
• the kinetic floor wound tight
• loam low and slow
• the word kiln full of half-sentences
• the apocrypha desk magpie
• the archive oracle asking elsewhere