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sleep placebo

sometimes i wonder how much my persived amount of sleep affects me. im pretty sure i act more or less the same under 7 and 8 hours, but i think about them differently. if i could somehow hide any mention of times from me and be told to fall asleep by a program i could do some kind of double-blind sleep test, where i wouldnt know how well-rested i am. this would be really hard to do though because hiding any mentino of times from me isnt something i can control. if i were to do this i would need some kind of metric of how rested i am when i wake, and if this is some kind of cognitive test then i might become used to the style of questions after a bit.