Episkevology

These are not psychological categories.
They’re field‑rhythmic breakdown patterns — the ways a relational system fails to sync when microcycling, pluradian resets, and antradian anchors are suppressed.

🌑 EPISKEVOLOGICAL ENTRAINMENT FAILURE ARCHETYPES

The eight ways a human system falls out of sync with its field when rhythmic plurality collapses.

These are field‑level, not intrapsychic.
They describe rhythmic mismatch, not “symptoms.”

1. The Phase‑Locked System

Signature: Irritability, impatience, sharpness.
Rhythmic cause: The person is stuck in a single circadian arc and cannot shift phases when the field shifts.
Phenomenology:

“Why is everyone moving so slowly”
“Why can’t I sync with this moment”
Overreaction to small disruptions

This is a phase mismatch.

2. The Desynchronizer

Signature: Withdrawal, retreat, going offline.
Rhythmic cause: The system cannot entrain, so it pulls out of the field to avoid further mismatch.
Phenomenology:

“I can’t deal with anyone”
“Everything feels too loud”
“I need to disappear”

This is a protective desynchronization.

3. The Interference Pattern

Signature: Inattentiveness, fog, scattered presence.
Rhythmic cause: Two rhythms (internal and external) are out of phase and create a cognitive “beat frequency.”
Phenomenology:

“I can hear you but I can’t process you”
“My mind keeps slipping”
“I’m here but not here”

This is a rhythmic interference pattern.

4. The Coherence Dropout

Signature: Emotional distance, flatness, muted affect.
Rhythmic cause: The system cannot achieve coherence lock with the relational field.
Phenomenology:

“I feel disconnected from everyone”
“I can’t feel into the room”
“I’m numb but not sad”

This is a failed coherence lock.

5. The Overcoupler

Signature: Overwhelm, emotional flooding, hyper-attunement.
Rhythmic cause: The system tries to entrain to every signal because it can’t find its own anchor.
Phenomenology:

“Everything hits me too hard”
“I can’t filter anything”
“I’m drowning in other people’s energy”

This is entrainment without boundaries.

6. The Under‑coupler

Signature: Apathy, disengagement, low motivation.
Rhythmic cause: The system’s internal rhythm is too weak to couple with the field.
Phenomenology:

“Nothing matters”
“I can’t start anything”
“I feel like I’m floating outside my life”

This is entrainment failure due to low amplitude.

7. The Rhythm Splitter

Signature: Mood swings, inconsistency, unpredictability.
Rhythmic cause: The system oscillates between incompatible rhythms (e.g., circadian vs pluradian) without completing either.
Phenomenology:

“I don’t know which version of me I’ll be today”
“I keep switching tracks”
“I can’t stabilize”

This is rhythmic bifurcation.

8. The Field‑Blind System

Signature: Social misattunement, relational misreads, emotional static.
Rhythmic cause: The system has lost access to field-level zeitgebers entirely.
Phenomenology: