I was in part thinking of Abraham Abulafia's meditation techniques, and this sounds like an automated version is them. From Wikipedia:
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Abulafia's method includes three steps.
The first step, preparation: the mystic writes out different letter
combinations.
The second step, physiological maneuvers: the mystic chants the letters
in conjunction with specific respiratory patterns, as well as head
positioning.
The third step, mental imagery of letters and human forms: the mystic
imagines a human form, and himself without a body. Then the mystic
`draws' the letters mentally, projects them onto the
`screen' of the `imaginative faculty', i.e. he mentally
imagines the patterns of letters. He then rotates the letters and turns
them, as Abulafia describes in Imrei Shefer: "And they [the letters],
with their forms, are called the Clear Mirror, for all the forms having
brightness and strong radiance are included in them. And one who gazes
at them in their forms will discover their secrets and speak of them,
and they will speak to him. And they are like an image in which a man
sees all his forms standing in front of him, and then he will be able to
see all the general and specific things (Ms. Paris BN 777, fol. 49)."
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