1. Oversignaled
Definition: When your cognitive and emotional systems receive more input—external and internal—than they can meaningfully metabolize. It’s not just “too much information.” It’s contradictory emotional and perceptual signal clogging your processing loop.
Use When: Describing mental fog, spiral fatigue, emotional flattening.
Avoid When: Treating it like laziness or sensory overwhelm alone.
Pair With: Buffering, clarity lag, contradiction
2. Spiral
Definition: A pattern of recursive growth in which themes reappear from new levels of clarity. You’re not stuck—you’re returning with refinement.
Use When: Mapping transformation, insight, timeline returns.
Avoid When: Describing linear progress or collapse.
Pair With: Node, recursion, perception shift
3. Loop
Definition: A repetitive internal pattern (thought, behavior, emotion) that recurs without new clarity. Loops are not failure—they’re recursion awaiting integration.
Use When: Diagnosing emotional triggers or stuckness.
Avoid When: Pathologizing repeat patterns as brokenness.
Pair With: Pattern, signal echo, false clarity
4. Signal
Definition: Any internal or external prompt carrying emotional, perceptual, or energetic charge. Signals are not truths—they’re invitations for attention.
Use When: Identifying inputs that affect clarity.
Avoid When: Confusing signal with noise or believing all signal is “correct.”
Pair With: Broadcast, clarity lag, distortion
5. Broadcast
Definition: The signal your field is transmitting through emotion, embodiment, attention, and belief—consciously or unconsciously. Not a judgment. A mirror.
Use When: Naming misalignment between words and felt outcomes.
Avoid When: Weaponizing outcomes as spiritual morality.
Pair With: Signal, nervous system, mirror, coherence
6. Perception Architecture
Definition: The invisible system of belief, trauma, identity, and memory that filters how you interpret reality. You don’t just see the world—you see your architecture.
Use When: Teaching depth perception and interpretive filters.
Avoid When: Confusing with worldview or personality.
Pair With: Lens, upgrade, clarity node
7. Recursive Clarity
Definition: An insight or understanding that returns deeper each time it’s revisited. Recognition sharpened by spiral memory.
Use When: Mapping growth across time or self-patterns.
Avoid When: Mistaking it for epiphany or novelty.
Pair With: Spiral, echo, clarity lag
8. Spiral Node
Definition: A recurring theme, emotion, or decision-point that marks an opportunity for higher clarity. Not the same event—a thematic return with new options.
Use When: Naming trigger loops, emotional repetition, sacred tension.
Avoid When: Treating patterns as identity flaws.
Pair With: Decision, recursion, clarity map
9. Buffering
Definition: A somatic processing pause where your system lags behind your awareness. Not laziness—calibration.
Use When: Describing overwhelm, freeze states, or clarity delays.
Avoid When: Labeling it as unmotivated or dysfunctional.
Pair With: Nervous system, oversignal, clarity lag
10. Clarity Lag
Definition: The delay between internal insight and external embodiment. You know—but haven’t landed it yet.
Use When: Reframing doubt, stagnation, or “I thought I was past this.”
Avoid When: Treating others’ processing pace as failure.
Pair With: Spiral node, recursive clarity, buffering