Which sounds so lame when I put it like that. But it's pretty much how Rei sees the space between time (in his canon, each person sees the timestream differently), so it's really important to him. Overall, the thing is dark purple, but there are shining discs of various shades of purple floating around in the vortex. Each disc is a memory, and there are some discs that are completely white - these are the memories that were erased by the Guardians when he was 19.
Also, it is important to point out that before he was sucked into the rift in time when he was 14, it didn't look this way. His mind looked more like an impressionist painting of Rio, but with various nerdy stuff running around in it. Like spaceships and... centaurs... and... stuff. After he officially became a Guardian, that was all obliterated and replaced with the vortex.
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Which sounds so lame when I put it like that. But it's pretty much how Rei sees the space between time (in his canon, each person sees the timestream differently), so it's really important to him. Overall, the thing is dark purple, but there are shining discs of various shades of purple floating around in the vortex. Each disc is a memory, and there are some discs that are completely white - these are the memories that were erased by the Guardians when he was 19.
Also, it is important to point out that before he was sucked into the rift in time when he was 14, it didn't look this way. His mind looked more like an impressionist painting of Rio, but with various nerdy stuff running around in it. Like spaceships and... centaurs... and... stuff. After he officially became a Guardian, that was all obliterated and replaced with the vortex.