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.