Sounds like fun.
My smoky quartz sphere ended up volunteering to play. I pulled it out from beneath the futon to find a lot more silver veils showing! The sphere is super-dark, almost opaque, smoky quartz. For years I was alert for a plain black obsidian sphere, but this smoky showed up instead, with a grin.
Yesterday evening, I sat outside within my stone circle, holding the sphere. My dog patrolled around the yard, finally lying nearby. The sphere flowed warm energy into me, identifying and helping smooth some prickly areas. For example I suddenly had a sharp pain in my eye. At my thought asking the sphere to help--yes--a crystal that currently sits in the yard flashed a few sparkles and also helped me release the hold. After more of this, I wondered about a name. I didn't remember the sphere giving me a name. The crystal either, for that matter.
What I felt was "blackness, browness." Huh? I said the words aloud a few times. It looks black unless you get close with the light just right. (Now, however, the veil/rainbow sparkle areas do not go away.) Different -ness words came to mind, then just "ness." Ness? I said. Nessie, the Lock Ness Monster? I played with that awhile. Fun and perhaps related, but not quite. Eventually I felt a nudge to reverse it. Ssen. ha! Emphasis on the SSSSSS as a ssssnake would say. Fffffunny. (As a cat might say.) Ssen the sphere felt right. Who knows where that will lead? I played with it awhile and it felt good, felt fun, but that was it for the time being.
I slept with the sphere and dreamed normally--for me lately anyway!--Ssen radiating warm, soothing energy all night. The warmth felt hotter in some way than Flower and other spheres have shared lately. I woke up feeling great.
Although I strongly advise against this, I looked once again through almost opaque Ssen at the sun. With such intense light behind it, Ssen proves a transluscent brown, filled with pretty veils. I only did this long enough to see, because the non-visible light waves still may not be good for my eyes. I need to explore intense non-solar light sources instead. Another way is to journey within Ssen for a look.