Needlessly delaying bedtime ("bedtime procrastination") is framed here as coming from not having processed the day's emotions — working through them before bed supposedly helps you fall asleep.

noli's read

The creator names a real, documented phenomenon — "bedtime procrastination" (Kroese et al., 2014): delaying bedtime with no external constraint, while knowing it'll hurt the next day. Where the post goes beyond what the literature establishes is the mechanism: it attributes the procrastination to "unprocessed" emotions from the day, and frames a journaling app as the fix. The reference literature on the topic points instead to end-of-day depletion of self-regulatory resources (Kroese et al.; Nauts, Kamphorst et al., 2018, Frontiers in Psychology) or to chronotype (a later study in the same field actually finds the opposite of the expected depletion effect) — not to a specific "emotional processing" deficit. No study identified tests whether a pre-bed journaling session reduces bedtime procrastination or improves the sleep that follows. The personal anecdote is plausible and low-risk to try, but it isn't an established causal mechanism the way it's presented here.

the sources

1. 1Kroese FM, De Ridder DTD, Evers C, Adriaanse MA. 2014