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How to deal with staying up late? The answer will surprise you

By Dr White

 


Many people habitually attribute this to a problem of personal self-control, but in fact, it is a "psychological disease". This irresistible, compulsive late sleep is academically called (revenge bedtime procrastination).

What time you go to bed is essentially the node that determines the end of the day. Retaliatory sleeplessness, on the other hand, is a phenomenon in which people who have little control over their daytime lives refuse to go to bed early in order to regain a sense of freedom late at night.

Forcing yourself to "go to bed earlier" does not solve the problem.

Stay up late and become the only way to control time

When work deprives people of leisure time, they have no choice but to deprive themselves of sleep. Sleep is alienated into an ATM machine, and one can decide how much time one wants to withdraw.

Whether it is to relieve the pressure of life, or purely for the sake of domination, "giving up part of your sleep time" sounds like a sense of control over your destiny.


In this way, those who seem to be behind the poor self-control, in fact, are adults are helpless and willing.

In such a state, even if you rely on the so-called "self-control" to force yourself to go to bed early, it is likely to fail.

Forcing yourself to go to bed early may not pay off

Many times, going to bed early is a natural occurrence, some people because of changes in work, life status, some people are the physical feelings brought about by age or a change in mentality, rarely is someone through the "forced" to achieve.

The more I force myself to sleep, the more I can't sleep. The more you want to stay away from the phone, the more tempting the world of flowers in the phone is.

Staying up late is a byproduct of modern work life, and in this case, the resistance to attempting to reverse it from the bottom up is understandably high.

So, there is no rush to change.

Let sleep, back to sleep itself

Rather than being in a mental loop of "stay up - regret - keep staying up" and constantly blaming yourself, a better approach might be to first reconcile: "I just want to choose to stay up and can be awake and accept the cost".

No phone before bed? That's too radical. You just have to try to make a little tiny adjustment.

For example, establish a bedtime ritual, go to bed and turn off the lights, choose a favorite scented candle as a light source, and play with your phone in the soft, warm light.

For example, lying in bed, set aside a minute to turn off the phone screen, close your eyes and do nothing, a minute is enough.


For sleep, no anxiety is a victory



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