Want more sleep, but can’t stop staying up late? Sleep procrastination is not as simple as we might think

Beating yourself up after yet another late-night Netflix binge? Abi Jackson asks sleep therapists why some of us just can’t get to bed.
Want more sleep, but can’t stop staying up late? Sleep procrastination is not as simple as we might think

Sleep procrastination – basically putting off sleeping and doing other things instead – is very common.

Know you could really do with getting to bed earlier, but can’t seem to make it happen?

Between Netflix episodes that roll on and on, and Instagram scrolls that take us down a rabbit hole of endless clicking, sometimes the reason we’re not catching enough z's is no mystery.

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