"報復性熬夜"

[kane_magus]

Here is a Wil Wheaton dot net post about "revenge bedtime procrastination" (or "Retaliatory staying up late" as Google Translate calls it), which seems eerily familiar to me, though I'd never heard the term before prior to reading that post. Outside of the horrific childhood abuse being a potential cause for it, as I was not abused as a child, that seems rather spot on as far as my sleeping habits go. Incredibly rare is the night that I'm in bed before 1:00am or so, at the earliest. Either I have to be doing something early the next day that requires me to go to bed earlier (in which case I usually dope up with melatonin and/or diphenhydramine around 8:00-10:00pm, then spend a good chunk of the next day feeling like groggy shit [though still better than not sleeping at all, which has occasionally happened as well]), or else I have to just be feeling more shitty than usual, as otherwise I'll be up until anything between 1:00-5:00am (or later), though it's usually in the range of 2:00-3:00am, and there's never really been any good reason for it.