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And welcome to your Sunday morning.

And I hope you had a good sleep. Do you know, it's actually quite interesting.

One of the most helpful things to do in your life is to gaslight yourself. I'm not sure if you know

all about this, but it's quite interesting. Now, I know this sounds a little anti-philosophical.

I understand that, and bear with me, as I sort of mention it, a little bit.

But placebo sleep affects cognitive functioning.

It's just sort of one example out of many.

But it's very interesting.

So the placebo effect, this is from the abstract of the paper, the placebo effect is any outcome that is not attributed to a specific

treatment, but rather to an individual's mindset. The phenomenon can extend beyond its typical

use in pharmaceutical drugs to involve aspects of everyday life,

such as the effect of sleep on cognitive functioning.

In two studies examining, whether perceived sleep quality affects cognitive functioning,

164 participants reported their previous night's sleep quality.

They were then randomly assigned to one of two sleep quality

conditions or two control conditions. Those in the above average sleep quality condition were

informed that they had spent 28.7% of their total sleep time in REM, whereas those in the below

average sleep quality condition were informed that they had only

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