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Quitting after 90 days. Here's my full data.

WakeCoeff  ·  Aug 2024  ·  3 replies

I'm done. Not because the protocol failed — it worked often enough to reorganize my entire relationship to sleep. That's why I'm stopping.

Over ninety nights: 34 confirmed cue integrations (app log), 12 partial lucid entries (my definition: recognition of state, duration >10s), 4 full lucid entries (duration >2 minutes, volitional action taken), 6 arousal events from cues, 3 nights paused for adverse effects.

The honest accounting: it worked. The rate was lower than I expected going in, but the quality of the four full entries was unlike anything I'd achieved without the device over years of trying conventional methods.

Why I'm stopping: by week eight, I noticed that I was organizing my sleep around anticipation. I was timing caffeine, naps, and social commitments around the device's schedule. When I had a bad night, it wasn't just disappointment — it felt like a failed experiment that needed to be corrected the following night. Curiosity had started behaving like compulsion.

I'm uploading the full ninety-night logbook: device settings for every session, sleep timing, nap trials, caffeine intake, cue logs, subjective ratings, and the exact point (night 61) where I first noticed the shift from interested to invested.

If you're reading this and recognizing the pattern: the When to Stop guide is accurate. Read it.

This is the most useful exit report I've read in this forum. The distinction between 'it worked' and 'I'm stopping because it worked' is one I haven't seen articulated clearly before.

Downloading the logbook. The night 61 data is especially relevant — I'm at night 58 and paying attention.

The compulsion-curiosity threshold is real and I don't think the documentation describes it well enough. You notice it in retrospect more clearly than you do while it's happening. Good that you caught it.

Thank you for the logbook. The quality of this data is what separates useful community knowledge from anecdote. Posting this on departure contributes more than most people post while they're here.

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