The paper describes an experiment in assembling sense metaphors produced by E. Husserl, L.S. Vygotsky, A. Belyi, O. Mandelshtam, G.P. Shchedrovitsky and others. The metaphors have been selected and compiled in order to illustrate the author's approach to analyzing a creative act. The study resulted in a metaphor which could be interpreted as a dynamic nucleus of a semiotic sphere.