100 Cognitive Distortions That Influence Every Decision You Make to Fall Asleep To

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In this Sleep or Think session, we invite you to spend 3 quiet hours with 100 cognitive distortions that influence every decision you make not as flaws to fix tonight, but as quiet patterns to notice in yourself. From the Dunning-Kruger effect to survivorship bias, from catastrophizing to the sunk cost fallacy, each idea unfolds gently and clearly.

Let these ideas reshape how you see judgment, memory, and the choices you make without noticing — perfect for late-night reflection, deep thought, or simply to fall asleep to the soft rhythm of thoughtful narration.

At Sleep or Think, we're building a quiet space for curious minds — a place to learn, grow, and rest while exploring the hidden reasoning that shapes every decision. If you find comfort here, consider joining us.

🕰️ Time Stamps:
0:00 Dunning-Kruger Effect
2:03 Survivorship Bias
3:54 Sunk Cost Fallacy
5:51 Confirmation Bias
7:46 Backfire Effect
9:39 Illusion Of Explanatory Depth
11:44 Bias Blind Spot
13:37 Spotlight Effect
15:38 Catastrophizing
17:38 Curse Of Knowledge
19:37 Just-World Hypothesis
21:39 Normalcy Bias
23:29 Semmelweis Reflex
25:17 Fundamental Attribution Error
27:08 Anchoring Effect
28:56 Availability Heuristic
30:44 Loss Aversion
32:40 Hindsight Bias
34:36 Halo Effect
36:37 Horn Effect
38:38 Planning Fallacy
40:32 Illusion Of Control
42:36 Gambler's Fallacy
44:35 Hot-Hand Fallacy
46:30 Clustering Illusion
48:39 Apophenia
50:27 Peak-End Rule
52:12 Focusing Illusion
53:58 Empathy Gap
56:03 Illusion Of Transparency
57:57 Mind Reading
59:56 Fortune Telling
1:01:49 Emotional Reasoning
1:03:45 All-Or-Nothing Thinking
1:05:47 Mental Filtering
1:07:54 Discounting The Positive
1:09:59 Overgeneralization
1:11:48 Personalization
1:13:48 Labeling
1:15:31 Should Statements
1:17:31 Magnification
1:19:21 Minimization
1:21:12 Blaming
1:23:02 Heaven's Reward Fallacy
1:24:56 Fallacy Of Fairness
1:26:48 Fallacy Of Change
1:28:34 Always Being Right
1:30:36 Control Fallacies
1:32:46 Jumping To Conclusions
1:34:47 Cognitive Dissonance
1:36:42 Motivated Reasoning
1:38:32 Belief Perseverance
1:40:36 Naive Realism
1:42:22 False Consensus Effect
1:44:25 Self-Serving Bias
1:46:15 Actor-Observer Bias
1:48:06 Egocentric Bias
1:49:51 Overconfidence Effect
1:51:41 Optimism Bias
1:53:37 Pessimism Bias
1:55:27 Negativity Bias
1:57:29 Declinism
1:59:22 Rosy Retrospection
2:01:22 Nostalgia Bias
2:03:17 Recency Bias
2:05:09 Primacy Effect
2:07:09 Framing Effect
2:09:14 Decoy Effect
2:11:19 Priming Effect
2:13:19 Mere Exposure Effect
2:15:19 Illusory Truth Effect
2:17:17 Social Proof
2:18:53 Bandwagon Effect
2:20:44 Groupthink
2:22:44 Authority Bias
2:24:42 In-Group Favoritism
2:26:38 Out-Group Homogeneity
2:28:37 Stereotyping
2:30:37 Diffusion Of Responsibility
2:32:19 Moral Licensing
2:34:13 Reciprocity Bias
2:36:09 Commitment Bias
2:38:10 Scarcity Bias
2:40:10 Reactance
2:42:11 Status Quo Bias
2:44:03 Endowment Effect
2:46:00 Zero-Risk Bias
2:47:58 Ambiguity Aversion
2:49:55 Choice Overload
2:51:42 Decision Fatigue
2:53:30 Present Bias
2:55:12 Hyperbolic Discounting
2:57:07 Restraint Bias
2:59:12 Projection Bias
3:01:05 Impact Bias
3:03:03 Affective Forecasting Error
3:04:58 Base Rate Neglect
3:06:56 Conjunction Fallacy
3:08:41 Attentional Bias
3:10:41 Regression Neglect