Phantom Rest: The Placebo Sleep Effect and the Cognitive Power of Believing You Are Rested

You wake up groggy, glance at the clock, and realize you only got four hours of sleep. Instantly, you resign yourself to a day of brain fog and lethargy. But what if your exhaustion is driven less by a biological deficit and more by the simple fact that you believe you should be tired?

Phantom Rest dives into the groundbreaking neurological discovery of the placebo sleep effect. Researchers have proven that when individuals are falsely informed they had a high-quality night of deep sleep, th...