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I’ve had a bad habit of doing this for years. I’ve recently tried to fix it but am struggling to let myself sleep & ‘waste’ the rest of the night. It’s exactly as the article suggests, I do it because I feel like my life has no personal time/privacy otherwise.

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Exactly the same, and "wasting" the time is the same sentiment I have. It means I get ~5h of sleep normally, and most of the activities I do in that time are what Tim Urban (in TED talk, "Inside the mind of a procrastinator", which is excellent) calls "Dark Playground" - something I next morning feel at least a bit guilty for spending time on.

For the last couple of days, during some workshops, I've slept for ~9h a day, and difference in my mential acuity today vs otherwise is impossible to deny / wave away...

Exactly the same for me. I subconsciously try to fight the sleep from my eyes while trying to do any activity that won't make me feel like I wasted the evening. And sometimes I have to yell at myself in my head just to go to bed when my eyes are already half closed.

I don't know how to stop this habit. Maybe knowing there's a name and that it happens to other people might help me catch myself.

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