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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.