I Built A Bot To Help You Go To Bed 

"Who wears their brain outside their head?" - Pewdiepie

I already know this one. If it's a weekend, I put off going to bed because I enjoy what I'm doing. If it's a weekday, I put off going to bed in a vain effort to stop time from happening and morning coming

I have a feeling that this channel will hit a million subs soon, for no PARTICULAR reason AT ALL!!

What a wholesome channel with no drama or controversy at all!

....literally delaying sleep to watch this....

I rarely procrastinate sleep, but when I do it's usually because I'm really interested in a problem I'm trying to solve and I keep telling myself "I'll go to sleep once I figure it out." or worse, "Okay, that's enough thinking. Time for sleep... Wait! This problem is so interesting!" I really like the idea of setting up "if/then" agreements with myself to get better sleep. For me, it would be "If I find myself up late thinking about some problem I need to solve, then I will write the problem down in its entirety and try to solve it as fast as I can." Once I do that, I know I won't forget any insights and my brain might even solve it while I'm asleep! BTW I just recently came across this channel and love what I see. Thank you for providing such engaging psychology and neuro content.

Ironically: I have put this video just before bed-time as i was procrastinating to sleep and decided to stop it in the middle to go to sleep and see the rest tomorrow so i can actually pay attention to what is says.

sometimes my sleep schedule gets so bad i just skip 24 hours to reset

THANK YOU for watching! This one was super fun, and I want to do more experiments with you all next year. A quick PSA that any of my Patreon tiers will get access to a new BrainCraft discord server where we can brainstorm, plan and do such experiments. I hope to see you over there :)

Heh, I usually have this problem, but I've had the opposite problem the last month. I've been so tired from my new job I've been coming home and immediately sleeping and waking up just in time for my next shift. Now I've identified I need to fight to delay my sleep so I have free time to do chores, plans and preparations for upcoming events that I am currently unprepared for.

The greatest advice from James Cleare atomic habits is to make these behavioural changes and habits not for the goal of something like...i want to be more productive...or I just want to stop watching RU-vid..because. But habits that are apart of the person you want to become. Your identity. Deeper than just simple goals that will easily fade away and wont hold you accountable. So ask yourself, "who do I want to become?" And "what habits must I have or remove to get there?". Start very small just pick one and see what you learn..have fun with it

What works for me is watching RU-vid without actually watching, that is, I listen to the video and turn the screen down. I also turn down the volume so that I can barely listen and set up the "take a break" setting so that whenever I watch more then 30min straight the app will ask if I'm still watching and tell me to take a break so if I don't press dismiss it makes the phone turn "off". That way If I fall asleep it won't wake me after an hour or so.

great to see the results from this! Sounded super interesting. My mail failure is not being specific enough. At my bedtime alarm I said I'd start my bedtime routine, but I don't have a well-established one yet, so I end up getting a snack, more tv, etc. Now I think I'll start by just brushing teeth at 12, and everything else should follow. If I'm already in the bathroom might as well wash my face, change, get water etc... end eventually sleep. Thanks!

Uhm, how do I push back work- or schooltime? :) Would be great if indeed possible. And this planning is indeed nice, but now add kids to the mix. haha

Why did y'all post this right when I was about to lay down to sleep on this fine afternoon?

Pardon me if this is a silly question, but why not use email instead of a texting service? Is email to text and text to email a difficulty?

Whatr an amazing channel, I see no drama or controversy at all.

I used to try to fix my bedtime routine. But at this point, I’ve just realized that I enjoy staying up doing what I want more than getting a sufficient amount of sleep.

Great video. I dim and nighttime mode the iPad display, then I pick any PBS Space Time video and Matt’s calm deliberate cadence has me asleep in no time, I’ve never finished an episode. 👍

I slept better when I was working midnights. I'd go to sleep immediately when I got home from work in the morning and just sleep all day, 10-12 hours.

watching RU-vid or a live stream usually puts me to sleep when I'm laying in bed. to the point where if it's something that I actually want to watch all of I have trouble staying awake. it's no different from when I read a novel at bedtime, really. can't tell you how many times I've read a page and a half and I wake up with the book on my chest, a stark difference from when I was a teenager and I would stay up all night trying to get through a great novel and would have to force myself to put it down. very occasionally I won't be able to sleep and at the time it feels like it's RU-vid or whatever I'm doing is keeping me awake, but I don't think that's the actual cause, because normally I'm lucky if I even remember any of the last video I start watching when I lay down for bed.

I watch RU-vid TO go to bed. I just flip my phone over and listen to it and slowly daze off. Or I’ll listen to an audio book and put the sleep timer on for 45 mins usually I gotta rewind it the next day.

Brilliant! Also, extreme trivia of no particular value: my great-gandpa used to vacuum in the middle of the night.

This was really interesting and I'd like more people to see it, so I'm leaving a comment! Great video!

Hey, this is a great video and a nice topic, especially when I'm watching this while practicing the same :p I do wish to say just try to include the actual statistics maybe in the doobly doo or on screen to get the scale, like how many people took the test and the percentage responses, I understand you don't want to through in all the numbers in the video just for the nerds who actually would be interested!

Getting rid of algorithm help a lot, for example on Instagram I follow 60 people, I only watch what they post, the amount of thing they post only vary slightly, so everyday just when I go to bed, I have from 5 to 10 min of content to watch on Instagram, then I can sleep. Surprisingly I feel like doing it makes me want to sleep, like a way to tell my brain "time to sleep". I also use dark mode and low brightness, obviously.

it's not procrastination, its consciousness extension ... it's knowing that tomorrow is just another day of the same. the existential dread of time moving forward. knowing that going to sleep is just bring tomorrow into the now faster. filling the void of existence by being awake is just something to do because sleeping 22 hours a day is socially and financially unacceptable.

thanks Felix for beefing with this great channel :)

thank you, thank you for addressing the "willpower paradox" (that's what i like to call it), if i lack the willpower to put my phone away and go to bed, you can be sure as hell i will also lack the willpower to keep my phone away x minutes before going to bed, or when setting up x thing or following y routine just takes more effort than just doing the thing. i dont understand at all, so much of my last few years have been neurotypical people telling me "just do x", "y will help you", but they fail to realize that doing those things is just as hard as doing the thing i'm originally struggling with, if not harder :P

i was given a bedtime routine by a doctor i was seeing and it turned out it worked for me i am in quebec canada time zone but it goes like this 9:30 all tech gets turned off (i use a timer on my computer) tidy up 10 have a shower and 10:30 in bed and 11 sleep. i really love it and i highly recomend it. a habit tracket to help you stick to it as much as you can.

The king send his blessing Let get to 1m

'I made a bot yo help you go to bed' me at 2:42am- ah yes this is exactly what i need to know rn

I absolutely hate the idea of going to bed at a certain time, even when I'm not tired. My body seems to prefer about 8 hours sleep, 2 hours lying in bed thinking about crap (that's when the best ideas come!), and about 16 hours of awake time. If I lived on a planet with 26 hour days I'd be absolutely delighted. Left to it's own device my body will try to wake about 2 hours later every day, and go to bed 2 hours later every night. This gets real messy when I let it happen because after a few days I end up getting up at maybe 10:00pm and going to bed in the middle of the day. Sometimes I'll stay awake for 24 hours to get back on a normal schedule, but then my body suddenly decides that it only needs 2 hours sleep, and I end up waking up at 11:00pm instead of 5:00am.

It's 1.45AM here and I'm heading to the international website now! (Anyway the guy on the phone sounds like someone that really needs some sleep)

*Me with a fixed schedule*: put off sleep and suffer chronic tardiness. 3 to 5 minutes every morning, no big deal. *Me without a fixed schedule*: put off sleep every day a little more. Shifting my bed time every day a little more. End up going full circle and back in sync with the outside world. Yet I keep pushing it. *Now with a mixed schedule*: pull all nighters every single time I have something in the morning. Sleep later when I have the time. End up with no sleep pattern at all. On the plus side, I never had any trouble falling asleep, no matter what time it is.

Plz do a video on Matt walker and why there are more nuances then he let's on. It's been a bit since sleeping with science, and we need more actual science.

The problem I have right now is I've had to do a lot of late shifts at my job (start at 4pm, often get home some time after 10pm) so I end up staying up late otherwise I don't have a lot of time to genuinely relax after work after I've showered and eaten before I 'should' be in bed. Sure, I have the time before work in the morning and early afternoon to do stuff I want to, but because I know I have to go to work later my brain goes into a weird 'waiting around mode' where I'm just like, waiting to go to work and often don't feel like starting anything substantial, time consuming or energy intensive to do cos I know I'm just gonna have to stop around 3pm anyway and then go to work and I need to be alert for that. So I end up staying up late and avoiding the fact that time is happening and I need to go to sleep because that's when I feel my time is most my own.

I call it the two week law. Rules, as they say, are meant to be broken, but laws are meant to be followed. If a new rule or policy is put into place, for yourself or at your place of work, it will be two weeks before people forget about it and stop following it.

I found that putting a time lock on my social media apps helps break the constant scrolling habit, and I get to bed a bit earlier than I would otherwise.

Chronic bedtime procrastinator here. Thank you for doing this

girl u been getting that beauty sleep cuz u looking radiant

"Vaccuming? Who wants to vaccum, ever?!" I'll tell you who, my upstairs neighbour, every single night at any times through 2-4am. Sometimes more than once per night. To make matters worse that's usually when I go to bed too :/ Edit: upstairs (neigbour)

For RU-vid I use the watch later playlist to stop watching stuff that I don’t want to watch

Sleep is a deadline. And I only work well under a deadline. So I find myself cleaning at 11pm

This video is so lost on me. I have no mobile phone, no social media with the one RU-vid exception. When 10pm comes along, Mrs. LikeBot says betdime and in 1 minute I'm snoring.

Ah yes, I’m watching this at 6AM, 7h later than when I went to bed lmao

Pewdiepie brought me here, and this is actually some really helpful information. I really like the idea of using the Implementation Intention to achieve your goals. I will definitely be making a specific plan to help me achieve things that I want to do. Thank you for this video! Subbed.

I get/send personal text messages a handful of times a month, and actual phone calls are even rarer. Most of the emails I receive are newsletters from companies/organisations that regularly purchase products from. The emails and texts that are job related only show up on my work phone, which I leave at work. I never bring work home. If you're released from prison, why take the shackles with you? There needs to be hard borderlines between work time and free time.

I feel like its a bit ironic that I'm lying in bed at 1am watching this video. Thanks for the advice.

. Vanessa.- Makes videos telling that Sleep it's important Me.- Watch those videos at 3 am

I hate those suggestions that say “put away your phone before sleep”. I can put away my phone but I can’t put away my brain Mary.

And here I am watching this at 4:22am. For me though, it probably is a problem. And yep… much of that “me time” is spent watching educational videos on YT later in the evening and into the wee hours. EDIT: Ok, going to bed (seriously, lol)…

This is my problem! It creeps into my entire life and hence I become inactive! Realized this again couple days ago!

Stand your ground bros Dont Fire unless fired Upon

I am watching this video while procrastinating going to bed, it's 3am, i feel attacked

She is just explaining the book atomic habits topic implementation intention.

What a cool channel I just randomly happened to stumble upon for no particular reason whatsoever.

You should make it an app. This will save u money and could make you some

Watching this at midnight rather than going to sleep... somewhat ironic :)

I hope that's not caffeine in your mug! Nothing screws up my internal sleep clock like caffeine, even if I take it very early in the morning.

I want to vacuum the most when I have an assessment due which also means I haven’t vacuumed since I finished my diploma.

0:12 No, I'm wondering where I can get that awesome alligator mug, perfectly positioned to look like it's ready for some finger food.

i procrastinate sleep soo much, youtube is one offender, but twitter is worse, very hard to unhook from. I setup my computer to lock the screen (have to type the password) every 5mn after midnight, but that wasn't enough, i always wanted hard enough to type the password to resume my "activity", i upgraded it to go to sleep (hibernate) later (every 15mn after 1AM), but same, i can interrupt the sleep routine midway, and i often do. I'll probably have to try more drastic mesures.

Pewdiepie found your Channel and mentioned you in a new Video, watch out for raids! I might check out your videos and see what you're channel is about after finishing Pewdiepies Video

Go to bed earlier and get up at least 1 hour before everyone else. Drink Tea/Coffee in the quiet and watch youtube to start your day.

Like the adult babysitter episode in Portlandia

The irony of me watching this video at 12:09am instead of sleeping.

I procrastinate sleep so much I feel exhausted every day, it's been a problem for me since forever. Sometimes I can go to sleep on time for several months on end but then it all comes back.

That's a really cute haircut!

Excuse me, I haven't watched the video yet but I feel very called out by the title.

Is it working???

this isn't really relevant to the video but are unlimited text plans not popular in other countries? I'm from NZ and most plans (except for the really cheap ones) have unlimited texts so I didn't think that would be an issue but I guess not!

I really hate how hard this is, how our brains really needs that small dopamine rush from doing stuff, How will i ever convince my brain to ignore the dopamine rush i get from watching youtube or watching a series, I think this is addiction and should be treated as such, and I am starting to believe this cant be fixed:( , my brain will always crave watching one more video, and i cant always ignore his calling

I'm literally procrastinating right now and I'm dying to sleep

Discord would be cheaper to use as a mass texting service :)

I'm watching this at 2 am... very meta

I feel like even this video is very much in the unhelpful "just don't do X" category I see so much of from people trying to give advice. In my experience, bedtime procrastination serves the important role of giving the brain a chance to let go of the day's thoughts and make the mental shift for sleep. Sure, most of us (myself included) are terrible at finding an activity engaging enough to engage a busy mind but calm enough to let us prep for sleep, and we inevitably get stuck in whatever activity we try to use because it never actually fulfills its purpose of preparing us for sleep. But that doesn't mean we'd fair better skipping it altogether. "Just don't do X" rarely works because it fails to identify the underlying reason why we're doing X to start with. Any tactics we use will only be a temporary bandaid if we don't address the underlying issue, so no wonder people relapse into old behaviors.

Someone else here from Pewds video?

Me, watching this while procrastinating sleep 🤦🏻‍♂️

i staid up late to wach this

I don't think this should be only a text messages bot. But I guess the problem here is that there is no universal messaging app that everybody in the world uses

I might be watching this as 2:30AM

Personally, I procrastinate bedtime because it's the only time of day I can't avoid being alone with my self, and I hate that guy.

I made my wife watch this at 12:15 am. If I try to correct her grammar again then I won't stop her tossing my phone out the window - my wife

I've been putting off watching this video for 2 months... 😬

Wait what no way someone who watch RU-vid is likely to watch RU-vid insteed of going to sleep :D (Just kidding but yah it make sense it kinda the way you get to see this video after all so to get there someone need to first be on RU-vid and that increed the likeliness that this is there way to procrastinate :P )

3:50

Yeah I'm watching this at 3AM

Watching at 2:30 am

Funny, I never get spam texts and rarely any spam calls. Any other dutchies or Europeans who don't get that?

I said it before and I'll say it again: the cure to sleep procrastination is to have some basic levels of self control and seems to be a fake endemic of a younger generation. Just stop. It's easy. At your bed time, stop what you're doing and go to bed. I need to go to bed at 9pm this Sunday, know what I'll do? 8:45pm, turn off any devices, brush my teeth, and get ready for bed. 9pm, get into bed, check my alarm is set, put in my earplugs, and fall asleep. It's easy, and no amount of videos, articles, bots, or anything else will make it easier to just stop procrastinating. All you're doing is procrastinating on the act of taking control and acting.

Braincraft more like Lamecraft

I procrastinate going to bed because I'm not looking forward to a few hours of waiting to fall asleep. It gets boring after an hour or so. Not sure I fit your target audience. (I mean, that's not what your research is about, is it?)

BrainCraft? more like lamecraft! haha!

Hi from Pewdiepie

It’s nice to know that Bourke Street Bakery is still a thing and have survived the pandemic. Haven’t been for years now though! (even though it’s not too far to walk from the KX to get there). something something my brain is obviously trying it’s best right now not to absorb any lessons about procrastination and bad sleep hygeine, addicted as it is to 3AM RU-vid, convincing itself that if I just find the right ASMR video THEN I could sleep.

Oh. Great. USA only :(

3 a.m.

Channel = bad Conga gang

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