Placebo effect: The power of your belief.
Assume you have insomnia and really want to sleep, but your circumstances prevent you from doing so. Then you go to your mother and tell her about your insomnia problems. Then she handed you a random pill from her medicine cabinet and ordered you to take it with anticipation. And you have no idea what the pill is for, so you take it eagerly. And you slept like a baby right after taking a pill. When you awoke the next day, you realized that the pill your mother had given you the night before was not a true pill, but rather a look-alike pill made of regular sugar and salt. Isn't that strange? You must be both surprised and perplexed by what has just occurred. The question keeps popping up in your mind: how did a pill made of sugar and salt work so constructively? NO, this sugar and salt combination is not effective for sleeping. Then here's how it went so well last night? The placebo effect is the only reason it works. It means regardless of your expectatio...