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I think the definition is backwards. It's not revenge against anything. It's just normal procrastination. Most procrastination happens in the form of you have
by spywaregorilla 5y ago
I think the definition is backwards. It's not revenge against anything. It's just normal procrastination.
Most procrastination happens in the form of you have to do A, but you put it off to do B instead. Thus increasing the amount of time before A because you don't want to deal with it.
Sleep doesn't count as time in many people's perceptions because you're not conscious for it. By doing B late into the night, A still arrives at the same time, but it expands the amount of experienced time before A.
- inanutshellus 5y agoI would've worded it as "petulantly delaying sleep". One is being immature and frustrated at the lack of planning and control in one's life, so one retaliatorally "plays" when one actually has the power to decide. There was an article not too long ago about overly-controlled/time-regimented children doing this same thing. When they have no power over how to spend their day, they decide to control their night, to their own detriment, health-wise.
- sershe 5y agoIn some people (e.g. me) it takes the form of wanting to accomplish X before sleep, but being too tired/lazy/... to start, and so procrastinating a little bit, while still intending to do X. Then, as time progresses, I probably become less likely to start on X but I keep doing random stuff (sometimes useful, sometimes not) because some part of me thinks I cannot go to sleep because I haven't accomplished anything... sometimes it even feels like bargaining after the fact, e.g. I decided to do a much less important Y instead of X, to feel like at least something had been done. I've learned that if X isn't working out the best thing to do is to just force yourself to go to bed :)