Bodily experiences reported during or immediately following awakening: sudden release of emotion, involuntary movement, collapse, and other physical change, 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.
Of the features on this page, one was described clearly enough that both readers drew the same line: the body moving on its own. For the rest, read the two numbers as a range rather than as a measurement. The ordering is probably right. The exact figures are not. That is a finding about how hard these categories are to judge, not a fault in the accounts.
The difficulties that follow awakening, social isolation, identity disorientation, dark night of the soul, and more, analyzed across the same accounts.
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