What if feeling fully rested isn't about hours of sleep, but the story your brain believes about them? This week Harion breaks down "placebo sleep" — a real study showing people who were simply told they'd slept well outperformed those told they'd slept badly, regardless of actual sleep — and walks through building a "Wide-Awake" alter ego you can use on the mornings a bad night meets a day that won't wait. Plus: an honest confession about what happened when he ran Episode 1's field experiment on himself, this week's five-minute field experiment to try tomorrow morning, and a preview of next week's episode on using an alter ego to break habits like smoking and drinking.