imaginary threads

when i was small, my parents used to tell me to put everything in my room on its place in order to keep it tidy. i then imaniged how practical it would be to have some kind of special elastic threads which would connect each item with its place and, after it was used and displaced, would simply snap it back into position. sadly, i never managed to find these threads, but still the image of it serves as a measure of chaos/orientation for my room.
it works like that: i imagine a red thread attached to all the objects and their 'good' positions. as a result i get some structure of criss-crossing which can be classified in different categories.
if they are in a way that i can cross my room without problems, it is not so bad. also the cobweb stage is not too difficult, as it represents some kind of structured mess and still flat, so it can be removed easily. however, once in a while it reaches this kind of multi-dimensional chaos one knows from laser beams in scifi movies. then it becomes a hard task with multiple attempts to reach the other end of the room, find the switch and remove the chaos at once (unfortunately the switch only seems to work in those movies, but then, after it is switched back, the chaos is back as well).