The idiom goes “I’ll sleep when I’m dead,” but tweak the phrase to “I’ll sleep after I watch one more episode of SVU and open and close Facebook three times and, uh-oh, SVU ended on a cliffhanger so I guess I’ll watch one more and — oh, gosh — is it 2am already?” and it becomes a whole lot more relatable.
It’s called “bedtime procrastination” and, for some of us, it’s all too real.
Dutch researchers recently conducted a study on bedtime procrastination, an age old phenomenon that they define as the failing “to go to bed at the intended time, while no external circumstances prevent a person from doing so.” For an example of the phenomenon in action, see last night when I had grand plans of going to sleep at a reasonable hour, but instead ended up watching Orange Is the New Black into the wee hours of the morning. (Based on the fact that every write-up of this study includes an OITNB mention, my guess is that Netflix is out to destroy everyone through sleep deprivation.)
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