Meditating before scrying is helpful so you're calm before you start, it takes ages but play with your focus, we can either look at a pane of glass or through a pane of glass and as you relax your focus changes from the former to the latter, you'll enter a trance state and the glass/mirror/ball will cloud over, when this starts happening you're onto a winner but don't expect results overnight and it's difficult to maintain that exact state because the conscious realization that you're in an altered state jolts us back to normal waking consciousness, just persevere.
The environment will turn to a purple haze or tinge if you're high enough, this is the state of swan medicine in Native American culture, referred to often as purple rain dreams and there's nothing to fear but you'll know all about it, not always and you don't necessarily need to be at that level to scry successfully but it may come with your first successful deep experience especially if you're a meditator. Read Swan medicine for further insight.
Once you can see a clear haze shapes will start forming, stories will be played out coming from the haze which keeps changing and reforming to present various pictures which can sometimes be cartoon animated type images, but sometimes not. your power animals for example where there is absolutely no mistaking what you're being shown, it's not unlike watching the TV and these impressions can go on for minutes depending what's being conveyed.
Could for example be a cartoon image of a dark room with someone resisting being pulled out of bed and then the person explains they've been in a deeply depressive period.
I can't to date ever remember getting colour images when scrying, always like black and white tv, I do however get colour when I get psychic images through clairvoyance when not deliberately scrying.
The easiest things to scry in are things where there are slight movement like clouds, fire, bowl of water, rain on a window pane and a tuned off television screen probably tops the list for me personally but crystal balls are effective because of their high frequency though a blank wall can do equally well or a radiator because of the groves in it which force your eyes into the desired focus.
Your looking for daydream state, that's the first step on the ladder and the rest will follow if you can learn to induce that.
You are right it really doesn't matter.
I don't remember you doing that--though I do remember reading that you drank a bit of wine BEFORE scrying--unless I have that mixed up! 
