{"id":2998,"date":"2004-12-07T15:21:26","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T07:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/07\/mind-hacks\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:50:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:50:58","slug":"mind-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/07\/mind-hacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9678,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mindhacks.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.mindhacks.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9679,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0596007795\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310212045\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0596007795\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0596007795\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9680,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.oreilly.com\\\/catalog\\\/mindhks\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9681,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mindhacks.com\\\/blog\\\/2004\\\/12\\\/dont_think_sleep.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100227043721\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.mindhacks.com:80\\\/blog\\\/2004\\\/12\\\/dont_think_sleep.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.mindhacks.com\\\/blog\\\/2004\\\/12\\\/dont_think_sleep.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9682,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.boingboing.net\\\/2004\\\/12\\\/07\\\/mind_hacks_tips_tool.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081007131207\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.boingboing.net\\\/2004\\\/12\\\/07\\\/mind_hacks_tips_tool.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/\" title=\"Mind Hacks\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0596007795.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just added to my daily reads: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/\" title=\"Mind Hacks\">Mind Hacks<\/a>, the companion blog to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0596007795\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Tom Stafford, Matt Webb: 'Mind Hacks (O'Reilly's Hacks Series)'\">Tom Stafford and Matt Webb&#8217;s book <em>Mind Hacks<\/em><\/a>, recently released by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/catalog\/mindhks\/index.html\" title=\"O'Reilly: Online Catalog: Mind Hacks\">O&#8217;Reilly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Full of fascinating brain play (literally), like this post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/dont_think_sleep.html\" title=\"Don't think, sleep!\">how we perceive our sleeping habits<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Our own perception of how much we slept during a night can be startlingly inaccurate. Dr Allison Harvey (now of UC Berkley) took insomniacs and measured how much they actually slept during the night. Despite the insomniacs reporting that they had only slept for two or three hours, they had in fact been asleep for an average of 7 hours &#8211; only 35 minutes less than a control group who didn&#8217;t have any problems sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>  This shows that insomniacs (and probably the rest of us) are very bad at judging the time it takes us to get to sleep, and the time we actually are asleep. It also suggests that worrying about sleep, and our beliefs about how we&#8217;ve slept, have a big role in the negative affects of what (we believe) is a sleepless night.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing what else pops up on their weblog, and I will definitely need to pick up the book as soon as I get a chance.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/12\/07\/mind_hacks_tips_tool.html\" title=\"Tips and Tools for Using Your Brain in the World\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLegendary Pink Dots, The%2526albumTerm=From Here You'll Watch the World Go By%2526songTerm=This Hollowed Ground%26partnerId%3D30\">This Hollowed Ground<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLegendary Pink Dots, The%26partnerId%3D30\">Legendary Pink Dots, The<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLegendary Pink Dots, The%2526albumTerm=From Here You'll Watch the World Go By%26partnerId%3D30\">From Here You&#8217;ll Watch the World Go By<\/a><\/em> (1995, 3:04).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just added to my daily reads: Mind Hacks, the companion blog to Tom Stafford and Matt Webb&#8217;s book Mind Hacks, recently released by O&#8217;Reilly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[599],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}