After a busy day, you feel very exhausted. After eating, washing dishes, and bathing, it’s time to go to bed.
You think about the bad things of the day, and choose to play for a while before going to bed.
Nice TV series, weird social news, and another game, even if there is nothing good to watch, you will take some time to scan… Unconsciously, just playing “for a while” turns to playing late into the night. The regret comes out tonight. There are only 6 hours before getting up. You stay up late again.
You clearly know that staying up late is hurting my body, but you will unknowingly go to bed till late night. In fact, there is nothing that you must do before going to bed, but you just want to stay up…
This is the status of contemporary young people.
But, knowing that you have to go to bed early, why can’t help but stay up late? Is self-control too weak?
It’s not your fault.
Staying up late may be “retaliation during the day”
Think about it carefully, in addition to working overtime for postgraduate entrance examinations and night shifts, many people stay up late for no special reason, just that they don’t want to sleep.
Psychologists call this behavior “Revenge bedtime procrastination”. If you meet these three conditions, you may also be staying up late with revenge:
Staying up at night will reduce your total sleep time
Falling asleep later than expected, but there is no valid reason, such as external events or underlying diseases
One himself realize that staying up at night may lead to negative consequences
What exactly are those people who have revenge bedtime procrastination retaliating against?
The answers will get to you.
It’s probably because you haven’t had a good day: the more depressing and unfree you are during the day, the more you want to enjoy the time at your disposal at night, and even postpone the time to sleep.
I’m tired for a day, even if I get home from get off work at 11 o’clock, I have to play for two hours to balance my depression all day!
Finally, time to get off work, after cooking, washing the dishes, and taking a shower. Taking a look at the watch, it was already past nine o’clock.
What to do, I want to be alone and find myself.
So I can only stay up until twelve o’clock, pretending to read a book to enrich myself in a sloping position, or absent-mindedly binging two episodes of TV series that have been left for several weeks.
I feel that only at these times, I am myself.
I have to say that this phenomenon actually first appeared on the Chinese Internet.
Business during the day consumes too much willpower, and staying up late at night may be more difficult to control yourself
Psychologists have found that if you can’t control yourself staying up late at night, it may be because the affairs of the day consume too many willpower resources.
A research team from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam published a study in 2018. They found 245 volunteers and collected two aspects of information:
The volunteers’ bedtime procrastination the day before participating in the study;
The situation where they resist their desires during the day.
It turns out that the more times a person “resistes desire” in a day, the more likely they are to become procrastination before going to bed.
Interestingly, this study also found that the desire that people most want to resist during the day is “sleep”, which accounts for up to 61.76%. However, these people cry out to sleep during the day, but stay up late at night are more fierce than anyone else ( Significantly related to staying up late), like you in front of the screen.
Ask yourself if you have been restraining yourself from the urge to play games, watch online dramas or even sleep when you work and study during the day. At night, you want to be yourself, find happiness, and just play for a while…
That’s it? This is what keeps you staying up late?
Don’t underestimate the scientists, they also discovered another reason for “staying up all night is good, staying up all the time is always good”: stress.
The greater the stress during the day, the more you may be hungry for rewards at night
The greater the pressure during the day, such as hard work to complete, endless homework, readers do not like or share after reading… will make people have more desire for rewards, and it is easier to indulge in staying up late at night to chase drama and social media Of happiness.
So, how does pressure stretch out the small hand of sin and make people addicted to the joy of staying up late?
Further studies in neuroscience have found that stress can impair the function of the prefrontal lobe of the brain. The prefrontal lobe is mainly responsible for planning, regulating and controlling people’s psychological activities, and plays an important role in planning and purposeful behaviors.
The function of the prefrontal lobe becomes weak, and it becomes more difficult for people to control their inner desire for reward.
Studies have found that: under pressure, the function of the frontal lobe of the brain becomes weak, making it more difficult for people to control their desire for reward
How can one get the reward?
Staying up late playing games and chasing dramas are all rewarding behaviors for oneself, which can bring about a surge of dopamine, and dopamine itself participates in the “reward-motivation” system, and also has a wake-up effect, which will reduce drowsiness and make people more awake. .
It’s no wonder that sometimes you are so sleepy that you are not sleepy after playing, but you get more and more energetic…
Contemporary young people sleep more and more late, less and less
The staying up time is mainly used for playing mobile phones, chasing dramas and shopping. At the time between 0 and 2 in the morning, the proportion of post-90s and post-95s online shopping orders is relatively high.
Although rewarding myself for playing for a while before going to bed can help release my depressed self during the day and make myself feel a little “retaliation” pleasure after working hard all day, but if you do not sleep for a long time, this “retaliation” will gradually accumulate, which will make your mind and body More tired.
How long have you not had a good night’s sleep?
It’s been so hard during the day, so be nice to yourself at night. In the dark and quiet, enjoy 7-9 hours of sleep and relax your body and mind.
This is the real “reward yourself.”
Hurry up, put the phone down, turn off the lights, and go to sleep.
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