Elaborating on some Dire machine deep lore: the Sea of stars. The Machine folk merging with the base of your spine causes an influx of powerful data to bombard your mind. all of it is indecipherable pinnacles, artifacts, prisms, clouds, nebulae of light or other shapes the brain tries to make sense of. The more corrupt you become, the more you can make sense of this space for the raw back n forth data capability.
also represented is the concept of the beings of angles vs. beings of curves as briefly mentioned in the short story "the hounds of Tindalos" . The beings of angles ever so attracted to the warm beings of curves. you can see this because her "data' nodes are blue and curvy, and his are golden and jagged.