我们对自己说的早睡的谎言

浙江 赵郑敏

It is nothing new to most people that adequate sleep improves well-being.One recent study of more than 30,000 UK residents found that people who increased their quantity of sleep over a four-year period got about the same happiness benefits as they would have from eight weeks of therapy.Well-rested people are more social and have more positive emotional experiences with co-workers and romantic partners.A lack of sleep,however,lowers happiness by reducing emotional-memory recall and encouraging a scarcity mindset.

If all of this seems obvious,why don't we sleep more?Physical conditions,work,stress,and young kids are all common barriers to proper sleep.However,another barrier comes purely from what scholars call“revenge bedtime procrastination(拖延)”,a habit in which some people put off sleep as a form of rebellion(反抗)against their won inner authority.Weirdly,we deprive(剥夺)ourselves of sleep to show some sort of independence from—well,ourselves.

Revengebedtimeprocrastinationseems illogical,in that the retaliator(复仇者)and the retaliated of the revenge are the same person.But the explanation is fairly straightforward:It happens because,generally speaking,people dislike being told what to do in other parts of their life,so they fight back by demonstrating their own authority and staying up.

Personal control over our environment—or even the feeling of control—is deeply connected to our emotional balance.Given that sleep is something we can directly control,we may break commonsense rules about getting to bed,because we are unconsciously seeking a better emotional state—until the morning,when the alarm clock fills us with regret.

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