Software Engineer Tracks Sleep and Mood for 90 Days While Testing Chakra Crystals
A backend engineer with eight years of experience spent 90 days systematically tracking sleep scores, mood ratings, and focus hours while using chakra crystals, after his partner introduced him to the practice. He spent $103 on a starter kit and individual stones, testing each one in roughly two-week intervals following the traditional chakra order. While some metrics improved — such as his sleep score rising from 71 to 74 and panic wakeups decreasing — he noted that behavioural changes, like reduced pre-bed phone use, likely explained much of the improvement. A side project he had procrastinated on for eight months was finally completed during the experiment, though he attributed that more to daily accountability logging than to any crystal. He concluded the experiment was an n=1, unblinded self-study with significant confounders, framing it as a personal diary with charts rather than scientific evidence.
