Catalyst / Inhibitor - Delay and Dream?

Would procrastinating / putting things off (delay) give some characters the time to organize, plot, position themselves, steal assets, and etc.?

Perhaps as a character delays doing the things he knows he should be doing, he becomes troubled by the mounting evidence or increasingly hopeless situation he is in. This troubled state of mind causes bad dreams, and waking from a nightmare he is motivated to finally act (stop delaying).