One of the older posts I often go looking for was one I wrote about placebo sleep.
What’s that you say?
Studies show that getting a bad night’s sleep is bad for you, but knowing about it makes it worse. People who were told that had a bad night’s sleep, whether or not it was true, did worse on a series of standard tests. The reverse was true for people who were told they had a good night’s sleep.
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This is provocative. I’ve never had any kind of tracking device and the one thing I’ve wanted one for was for looking into my sleep. Somehow feeling that the device would tell me things about my sleep that I don’t know by how I feel in my body. And this new insight here makes me think twice. Though, I’ve only ever wanted the device for tracking for a month or so, not forever.
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This is provocative. I’ve never had any kind of tracking device and the one thing I’ve wanted one for was for looking into my sleep. Somehow feeling that the device would tell me things about my sleep that I don’t know by how I feel in my body. And this new insight here makes me think twice. Though, I’ve only ever wanted the device for tracking for a month or so, not forever.