Protocol Overview

This summary describes the public-facing intake and coding approach for the Recurring Room Pattern Registry. It omits internal screening criteria and any procedures that could bias or guide participants.

1. Intake

• Participants submit a free-text account of their experience with the room.
• Optional contact information may be provided for clarification or follow-up.
• Submissions are timestamped and routed to registry coordination.

2. Screening

• Entries are reviewed for the presence of the core pattern (recurrent room + naming persistence).
• Content containing acute risk or self-harm signals may be diverted from public indexing.
• Overly detailed identifying information may be suppressed or redacted.

3. Coding

• Basic metadata: recurrence interval, approximate duration of the room exposure, age band.
• Naming fields: whether the term “Sage Room” appears unprompted and how soon it is recalled on waking.
• Spatial stability: whether the room’s layout, entry sequence, or vantage point remain consistent.

4. Aggregation

Coded entries contribute to rolling counts, which are occasionally surfaced in the public registry as approximate metrics (e.g., active cases, regions reporting naming persistence). Individual narratives are not published in full.

5. Revision & Removal

Participants may request that their materials be excluded from future aggregation. In such cases, de-identified counts may remain, but narrative text is no longer used in public-facing summaries.

Internal protocol documents and extended coding keys are not distributed through the public registry surface.