A phrase used in a tool song...lateralus. It's a message telling people to keep going.
"swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human....Spiral out. Keep going, going..." -Tool

It's the best song ever...
by Brittany Padilla July 9, 2005
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The feeling you get afterer a long night or weekend of binge drinking or partying. Usually as a result of getting nothing accomplished the following day. Sinking into an abyss of regret.
Instead of writing my paper for class on Sunday, I stayed in bed and rode out the Shame Spiral I found myself in.
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ant: where tf did i come from
neil cicierega: a spiral of ants
ant: where tf am i going
neil cicierega: a spiral of ants
ant: why cant i remember anyhing
neil cicierega: youve got to keep it flowing
ant: please stop
neil cicierega: you are one ant
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1. A thing that ants do when they lose their way, they start walking in a circle until they die of exhaustion.

2. A kick-ass Lemon Demon song, which is also the last main track on Spirit Phone. (The song is also about the thing ants do.)
1. Person 1: are those ants down there having a party? :D Person 2: dude, thats a Spiral of Ants. They are going to die. Person 1: oh. :(

2. Person 1: hey dude, whatcha listening to? : person 2: Spiral of Ants by Lemon Demon! :D its the final main track on Spirit Phone!! :
by OC Chaos Soup October 31, 2022
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Going to a article and finding interesting links, and following links to same site, for a long time, like you were in a trance.
Man, I wikipediaed "Mongolian Grill", and I wiki spiraled for an hour before my boss caught me.
by zzDump September 10, 2009
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the term downward spiral is commonly used to describe depression and/or drug abuse, but can be applied to anything that starts out bad and just gets worse and worse and worse.

a downard spiral is illustrated in the book and movie Requiem For A Dream.

basic plot-

use a drug once
use it again
and again
and again
get an addiction
spend all your money on your addiction
start selling the drug to make money to pay for the addiction
use the drugs for yourself instead of selling them to pay for your own (why you should never sell the drug you do, if you sell at all)
fuck yerself over so badly you die, possibly from overdose, maybe you get shot by a drug dealer, maybe you kill yerself because you realize youve fucked your life over.
person1: i heard some girl died.. what happened?
person2: she was fine, then she got a crush on a guy who did drugs, so she started to do drugs, then became a junkie, then overdosed, and is now six feet under.
person1: oh, thats sad.
person2: just the typical downward spiral. happens all the time...
person1: ...that sucks.
person2: basically. lets go eat ice cream.
person1: deal.
by ghettostarchild September 9, 2007
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Noun: An emotional condition commonly experienced during the recovery period following extreme intoxication. The shame spiral consists of continued, connected thoughts and emotions of lack of self-worth, shame, regret, embarassment and commitments to refuse to intoxicate oneself ever again.

Verb: To be emotionally engaged in the condition of a shame spiral.
Simon: How's it going, Chris? You awake yet?
Gary: Oh god I'm so hungover. I hate this. I hate myself. I'm never doing that again. What kind of a jack-ass was I last night?

Simon: C'mon, quit shame spiralling. It's no big deal. So, you got a little bit wasted last night.

Gary: I spent my last $50 on booze last night. I hate myself and want to die. I'm never drinking again. I can't believe I hit on my student last night. I'm such a pig. Go away.

by Simon Kiss December 13, 2006
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