Talking from my own experience as a PC who had a lot of lower level auditing, in different places and from many highly trained auditors - this happened so many times that to me it
was part of auditing. So many times there was just nothing there in response to the auditing command (and I think that if there had been it often blew on clearing the bloody words anyway) so because the meter was reading, I would struggle to find the matching data. Hence the space opera stories, or the viewing of some incident in a way to squeeze it into an acceptable form to qualify as an answer.
I was the perfect little PC and came up with acceptable success stories and smiles on cue. I justified it to myself that I was a "fast pc" and it's just that I hadn't verbalised my wins at the right time so that the auditor or C/S could see any further action was unnecessary.
This was particularly true of the LRH C/Sd auditing I had - my goodness - I HAD to find the truth within myself to verify those reads, right? He Himself was C/Sing and telling me to look again!
The end result of that particular little exercise haunted me for many, many years and "the incident" that I coughed up was SO dramatic and delusional that I can't believe it looking back. I may have smiled at the time, but the result was that I felt like the biggest secret criminal in the universe for a very long time after that.
I am sure some people who are "still auditors" here could find some explanation within the "tech" for my NCG or pretended CG. After all, I have demonstrated now what a big bad SP I am since then.
Yet for me, it was about wanting the EP so much that I did what I was told. I did what the 'tech', auditor, C/S and METER told me to. Was I delusional? Yes, of course.
Thanks, this thread has helped put it in perspective. So much secret distress, so unnecessary. Maybe I am just weird and this only happened to me, I don't know. I do know that since I left it all behind, any "wins" I had have been far surpassed in real life.