Does anyone know if pressing that lovely little snooze button really helps in the long run? If I am correct the only true rest/sleep you get is while you are in REM sleep, so by pressing that snooze button you fall back asleep but not into REM. So if someone sets their alarm for 7am but snoozes till 8 (like me) they stop gaining meaningful sleep at 7, and would be better off to set the alarm at 8. Hope this all makes sense…
You’ve got a point there. If you’re going to sleep til eight anyway you might as well sleep soundly, right?
But you’re probably like me, full of ambition and big plans when you retire for the night, so you set the alarm a little earlier than you need to. Then in the morning all those things you were going to do don’t seem so important and you’d rather sleep.
I’m not sure, however, that you can’t get a little REM sleep even in seven-minute increments. If you really need it your body will fall into REM sleep almost immediately. But I agree that under normal circumstances (i.e., not sleep deprived) you probably just doze lightly and don’t get as much rest as you would if you slept straight through til you really had to get up.
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Don’t people only dream during REM sleep? I know I often have dreams between two whacks on the snooze button. (Mostly scary dreams involving a huge Cecil Adams slapping me repeatedly across the face, and the word “Dope! Dope! Dope!” echoing in my head.)
As was stated in previous threads on snoozebars, some people use the snooze button because it takes that long to become alert enough to get out of bed. The first hit or two are subconscious enough that the person doesn’t even register that the alarm has gone off.
While I don’t use my snooze button, I have had that happen to me. Occasionally after an extended period I will get so accustomed to where the alarm is that I can turn it off without awakening. I wake up later wondering why I am feeling so rested to find it’s because I’m two hours late to work. Hasn’t happened recently, though.
I’m a fortunate one who has never had need for a snooze button, I hear my alarm go off and I’m up and awake. I prefer a sudden loud noise (like my stereo going off at volume 30) to get me out of bed, (no joke) it takes getting used to but I find it effective. I also find I have to get up a good hour before work, I need that time to adjust to the new day. I am very much not a morning person and without a little time to warm up in the morning, I’m rather unpleasant. (or so I’ve been told)
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Snooze alarms make me more tired. I usually have that headachy, bleary-eyed, just-woken-up feeling all morning if I’ve had my sleep interrupted with one of those things. Bleah.
For me, it’s not so much a question of feel too tired to get up as it is I just don’t want to. I love to sleep, so I will sleep down to the last second before I know that I HAVE to get out of bed in order to make it to work on time.
Part 1. I thought this thread was going to be about snuff, which is sometimes called snooze. Dreadfully addictive stuff.
Part 2. Back when I used a snooze button, I found (a) I didn’t like waking up again and again, and (b) I’d lose count and get up too late. Now I keep my alarm clock across the room, so I have to get out of bed to shut it off. Once I’m up, I go get a cup of coffee.
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I don’t know about you guys but that extra 20 minutes of sleep is like GOLD! And I’d miss it if I was asleep.
I personally believe that the snooze alarm is one of the worst inventions ever created. It promotes laziness by providing a way to justify not getting out of bed. It’s annoying as hell to anyone else that happens to be sleeping in the same room who doesn’t use the same alarm. My wife has one and it never works for her. She is always getting up late and she always is hitting that darn snooze.
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I also dream vividly in between snoozes, sometimes continuing dreams after i hit the snooze.
Snooze is the best thing invented.
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Im deaf so I can’t use an alarm clock, so no snooze. Thanks for your impressions all, of what its like. -snooze impaired.
heh. anyone else do the “move the time up on your alarm clock” thingie? i think i originally did to to fool myself into thinking it was later than it is, but now when my alarm blasts, i do the mental calculation to determine what time it REALLY is. btw my clock is set 1:20 ahead. It used to be an hour ahead, but that was too easily calculated. hence the :20.
At this point I’m afraid to set my clock back to the correct time, as I’m so used to doing the morning calculations.
Both deep sleep and REM sleep are important. You tend to sleep deeply when you first go to sleep and then the REM cycle starts and REM episodes become more frequent through the night. You can also dream in light doze mode. If your sleep is interrupted one night, you tend to have more REM the next. People are more likely to wake up in REM. I think that’s why snoozes are popular, by moving people from deep into REM or light doze states it makes it easier for them to get up when the alarm goes the second time…
We seem to have gotten a little off the topic I was looking for, or maybe I just worded it wrong 
I would like to know if there is any proof or studies done on whether or not pressing the snooze button for an hour is close to, or the same as not pressing the snooze and sleeping through that hour…
Every morning I snooze for at least an hour before getting out of bed, and sometimes still feel tired throughout the day. Am I geting 8 hours of sleep, or only 7 because I snooze…?