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What is revenge bedtime procrastination?
This refusal to shut your eyes when you know you should is an actual psychological phenomenon called revenge bedtime procrastination. The term bedtime procrastination first surfaced in a 2014 study from the Netherlands. With the addition of revenge, the term started appearing on the internet in China in 2016. It was finally introduced to English speakers last summer by writer Daphne K. Lee, who defined it on Twitter as a phenomenon in which people who don t have much control over their daytime life refuse to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours.
Professor Andrew Coogan
She describes it as “a phenomenon in which people who don’t have much control over their daytime life refuse to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours”. Add in potentially problematic lockdown behaviours such as binge-watching TV, excessive time spent on devices, letting exercise fall by the wayside and an increase in alcohol consumption and it’s not surprising that sleep has taken a hit.
Long-term insomnia is a reason for concern. “Sleep problems that are chronic are associated with decreased daytime function; that is to say, impairments of cognitions such as attention, memory and reasoning,” says Professor Coogan. “Poor sleep is also strongly linked with low mood and anxiety. We are less well able to deal with daily hassles and stresses if we are experiencing sleep deprivation.” He notes that our individual need for sleep varies a lot between people.
It’s late and you’re exhausted. You barely had time to eat dinner and shower after work. Maybe you watched a few episodes of a show, read a chapter of your book, struggled through your skin-care routine. Now you’re in bed, and you know you should sleep. But you keep scrolling past the point that feels good. Your eyes start to close and you have to be up at 5 a.m. for work, but you’re not ready for rest. Some part of you is unsatisfied.
This activity has a name: bedtime revenge procrastination.
It’s a phrase popularized by millennials and Gen Z in China, which literally translates to “sleepless night revenge,” Sandra, a 24-year-old Mandarin speaker living in Paris, told
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