Revision has a reputation as one of the more reliable containers in this work: replay a part of your day that displeased you, before sleep, as you wished it had gone. People report it changing things. It probably will change things for you too — but not for the reason you'd expect.
The ritual itself has no power. Revision works, when it works, because replaying the scene gives you a concrete, felt version of the story to actually occupy — not because there's a rule that revising a day at a specific hour rewrites it. You could do this at noon. You could do it standing in line. The timing was never the mechanism.
So use it if it helps. Before sleep is simply a quiet moment most people already have, not a requirement written into the law. What matters is whether you actually mean the new version while you're inside it — not whether you performed the ritual correctly.
And if revision does nothing for you, that's fine too. It was only ever a container. The only non-negotiable part was believing the new version while you were in it.
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