Difficulties reported in the months and years following awakening, from social isolation and identity disorientation to dark night of the soul, across first-hand accounts.
Every account was read twice, once by each of two independent readers working from the same written rules. The solid bar is where both of them agreed. The pale bar runs on to where at least one of them saw it. A short tail means they saw the same thing. A long tail means they did not, and the number should be held lightly.
On other pages of this site, several features were described clearly enough that both readers drew the same line. On this page, none of the were. Every figure below should be read as a range rather than as a measurement: the ordering is probably right, the exact numbers are not. That is not a fault in the reading or in the accounts. It is what these questions are like. Whether a stretch of flatness counts as depression, or a need for quiet counts as pulling away from people, depends on where you decide to put the line, and two careful readers put it in different places.
Sudden release of emotion, involuntary movement, physical collapse, and other bodily experiences reported during and immediately after awakening, across the same accounts.
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