‘Revenge Bedtime Procrastination’ Is Real

Michelle Woo
Forge
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1 min readDec 4, 2020

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“Revenge bedtime procrastination, 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.” — Daphne K. Lee

BBC explains that “revenge bedtime procrastination,” translated from the Chinese term bàofùxìng áoyè, is commonly experienced by overstretched workers desperate to “steal…

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Michelle Woo
Forge
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Author of Horizontal Parenting: How to Entertain Your Kid While Lying Down (Chronicle Books)