Lynn Schirmer survived horrific government and non-government torture, trafficking, and human experimentation.  She explained the general swirls prior to Pedogate.

Trigger Warning:

WARNING: This site contains graphic depictions and images of violence. Survivors of trauma may wish to view it with a support person.

Drawing of a programming lab with swirls

Also -- Note the spiral square, inside the electrocution box, and the spiral-like triangle on the wall. 

Description:

The intention is to associate the vortex [swirl] image with the memory of a cult torture experience (the image in the cloud) to create a trigger effect....It also can produce a general state of fear. Link: http://lynnsart.net/index.php/about/ [click thumbnails for descriptions]

Two more drawings with swirls, here and here

Part of Lynn's story:

Throughout my childhood, 4 to 5 times per year, I was sent to hospitals and military bases where I was subjected to torture. The torture consisted of food, water, sleep, and sensory deprivation, confinement, mock drowning, sexual assault, electric shock, drugging, and sensorial trickery using movies, sound, mirrors, medical equipment, and other apparatuses so diabolical, a Hollywood screenwriter couldn’t imagine them.  http://archive.is/DDfYM Original link:  http://lynnschirmer.com/schirmernews/

Three additional drawings with swirls, linked to here

Drawing 1   Drawing 2   Drawing 3

Not sure when the drawings in this thread were done, but most are archived here, in 2012

In 2015 Carolyn Hamlett wrote she was tortured in a nearly identical lab with swirls:

[Lynn Schirmer's] drawing is nearly identical in every way to what I remember.  When I was subjected to this technique of programming, there was not just one black and white spinning wheel, but numerous ones in the room so that no matter where my eyes might want to wander, they would be caught by another spinning wheel. http://archive.is/OH6Bg

Sending you love, Lynn Schirmer, Carolyn Hamlett, and all survivors!

Credit to @sound_of_silence for this excellent thread https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1698349 that led me to Lynn's work