Stolen from some time ago from another forum:

This is me. For me, it's not about the next day, but exactly about that "nothing can happen" feeling - everyone is finally asleep, no one has any expectations towards me, nobody will be calling me (it's night, it's rude to call people at night), nor will they be texting me (they're normal people, they're already in beds, sleeping). It's the only time my body is able to relax a little. It's the only time I can think about things, without interruptions and the nagging feelings I should be doing something else.

I tried, I tried really hard to give it up, but I can't. Now, with small kids in the mix, the mornings are not even an option.

This is what "revenge" in "revenge bedtime procrastination" is about. That feeling that it's the only time that's actually yours, the only moment of actual autonomy in your life. Everything else is driven by others - working a job, running errands, being there with your loved ones. When it starts feeling like an unending stream of obligations, those few hours late at night are a form of defiance, showing the middle finger to the universe, reclaiming some time for yourself.

This is what my brain says after waking me up at 3am. Then I'm just getting snoozy around 7 and it's time to get up and it's like ahahaha gatcha bitch!

I'm reading this post at 3am after a four hour video game binge... Fuck my life..

I work from home so I do this and end up napping a lot during the day. But I get so much done in the evenings after regular work hours without all the meetings and slack chats and zoom calls and emails and whatever other bullshit.

It's called Revenge Bedtime Procrastination. That's a real term, you can look it up

Usualy it's either because I know I won't sleep well, or I know I will be tired AF anyway...

This except i rarely have a bad day when I'm way behind on sleep. lol

I just run off REM cycles. If I miss one I can catch the next. Should be able to catch the next in... Fuck 90 minutes?

It's called ADHD.

It took me several decades to realize the potential gains of marginal fun, creativity, or studying I get into those late hours gets offset by me being significantly more irritable the next day. The thought of having the rebuild up all my mental momentum the next morning is upsetting but it's part of the human condition.

greedy algorithm

By staying up late, we exert some infinitely small level of control over our lives. We get to choose when the free time ends.

Compare that to admitting defeat and going to bed to be well rested for your wage slave job where you generate shareholder value that you will never see yourself.

Its an easy choice. Stay up late, work to rule, form a cross industry collaboration with other unions and bring the economy to its knees.

Me rn at 3 AM local time:

Lolol my group therapy runs until 10 so I want to read for hours and don’t sleep until 12:00 AM or 1:00 AM and even then, I wake up at 4:00 AM for work. I’m tired, boss.

I also hate having to wake up to piss 3 or more times in the middle of the night.

You may be partaking in revenge bedtime procrastination

Just one more turn...

sigh it's a sign.......fine.

Currently doing this.

I keep doing it because, I enjoy my free time after work doing things I like and you know if you sleep you will have to work tomorrow.

Did that this morning with Final Upgrade, which is factories in space and you can automate ships to do things like deliver materials/ammo/energy, build, and fight. Was just innocently playing the game and suddenly it's daylight out.