Experience Patterns
Recurring phenomena across independent anonymized reports — 3 patterns.
| id | phenomenon | reports | evidence basis | page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| drowsiness-vs-stillness | Drowsiness (昏沉) during sitting, and uncertainty about whether it is stillness (入静) | 1 | practitioner-reports-only | /patterns/drowsiness-vs-stillness/ |
| leg-numbness-pain | Leg numbness, pins-and-needles, and pain in cross-legged sitting, with contradictory community advice about endurance | 2 | partially-researched | /patterns/leg-numbness-pain/ |
| warmth-and-qi-sensations | Warmth, sweating, tingling, and felt qi movement during or after seated practice | 2 | partially-researched | /patterns/warmth-and-qi-sensations/ |
Language discipline: "recurring reports in the practitioner archive" —
never "scientifically proven" unless actual research supports it. Evidence
basis is graded conservatively: partially-researched only when adjacent
research exists in a weak sense; practitioner-reports-only otherwise.