STOP OVERTHINKING

Stormglass is a single-page, interactive web tool for working with a thought that won't stop circling. Instead of trying to calm you down or clear your mind, it treats a stuck thought as something with two measurable properties — how vivid it is (a picture replaying in your head) and how vague it is (global and all-about-you, versus one specific moment) — and gives you a way to change its shape.

You log the thought, then take a "reading" on two dials. The thought appears as a bead on a two-axis map, usually parked in the top-left corner the tool calls the squall (vivid and vague). From there you run two short procedures, each one acting on a different axis. The first, dim the picture, has you hold the thought lightly in mind while following a sweeping light with your eyes — loading visuospatial working memory to make the mental image fade, the same mechanism behind EMDR eye movements and the "Tetris after distress reduces intrusive memories" findings. The second, sharpen the facts, walks you through concrete questions that pull an abstract rumination down into one specific moment with a time, place, and small next step — the basis of rumination-focused, concreteness training. After each, you re-rate the thought and watch the bead physically move out of the storm toward the clearing.

A final section, let it drop, is a sensory release rather than a reframing tool: a real physics field where you tap to drop a thought as a ball that falls, collides with the others, and settles, with a synthesized sound on every bounce — a bit of weight you can hand to the screen instead of holding in your head.

The underlying mechanisms are established in the research literature; what's original is the format — locating a single thought on a vividness-by-specificity map and steering it with the procedure matched to each axis. Stormglass is built as a gentle self-help instrument, not therapy, and it keeps recall deliberately light, with a note pointing toward professional support for anything that feels like too much.