I don’t think we have done this in a while, apologies if we have.
I am a snoozer. I can snooz for two hours, I love it. Generally, I snooz for forty minutes before work in the morning. I understand some alarm clocks have a snooz limit, but I use my cellphone.
I like the ten minute mini-naps, and occasionally get a dream back.
I am not a morning person, and the thought of immediately jumping out of bed terrifies me. 
What do you all do?
I usually just get straight out of bed when the alarm goes off. My clock is a fairly basic one. It doesn’t have a snooze function.
I set my bedside alarm clock 20 minutes fast. I set my cell phone to go off at the real time I want to get up. When my bedside alarm goes off, I hit snooze twice, turn it off the second time it goes off, then a few minutes later my cell phone alarm goes off, and then I get up. Thank og I don’t ever have the presence of mind to figure out how to snooze the cell phone- I do know how but I can never remember right at that moment.
I’ve read that you shouldn’t hit the snooze button because then you’re getting broken sleep when a solid stretch of sleep is better, but damn if I don’t need an early warning system.
I knew I should have left the “e” at the end of snooze. Perhaps too much broken sleep… 
I’ve tried to wean myself off the snooze button, but without much success.
I set my alarm clock for an hour before I need to get up, and the snooze button gives me an extra ten minutes each time. I also set my cell phone to go off twice (there’s no snooze function). So, I usually try to get up by 7am on weekdays, so I set my alarm clock for 6am, and my cell phone for 6:45 and 7:00. Sometimes I manage to drag myself out of bed before the second cell alarm goes off, but not very often.
Theoretically I’d like to just get up as soon as my alarm goes off, but I am totally not a morning person. I’m way too groggy when the alarm first goes off, even if I’ve had a long time to sleep that night, and usually I don’t even remember the first couple times the alarm goes off (if I accidentally turn the alarm off then I often don’t even remember it ringing at all - my guess is I’m still asleep when I hit snooze the first time or two).
I am not a morning person either.
Consequently, I’ve arranged my life to eliminate alarm clocks. I use one approximately once a month. When I do, it means I have to get up at the appointed time, so I guess I’m no snoozer.
Having said all this, I typically wake up by 8:00am naturally. This is good enough to get me to work on time, so I’m golden.
Jammer
You’re so groggy when you first wake up? I very frequently will not recognize what my alarm clock is, even though it’s screaming AAANH AAANH AAANH into my ear, and I just blindly hit the buttons on the thing in the hope that doing that will make it stop. And then it hits me, ‘oh yeah, that was the alarm clock’.
And, AFAIC, if you can wake up naturally before 10, you are a morning person.
I used to be a snoozer. Then I noticed that I was less tired during the day if I just got up exactly when I was supposed to and take a cold shower followed by a light breakfast. I feel much better now than when I used to hit the snooze.
Yeah, I’m one of those “doesn’t understand what the loud beeping thing is” people - I’m so completely out of it when the alarm clock goes off that I often don’t understand what I’m doing or why I’m hitting it. It’s often incorporated into weird sci-fi dreams where it’s some sort of angry robot that I have to disable.
I have this blessed (or cursed, depending) ability to wake up 2 minutes before the alarm goes off. This can be problematic, because if I turn the alarm off then I run the risk of falling back asleep.
And man, can I sleep. I’ll hit 18 hours if allowed.
But if I DON’T turn it off, even if I know the damned thing is going to go off, it scares the holy beejeebbies out of me. Consequently I’m tense and nervous for the first hour or so of the day.
I hate my alarm clock.
I can snooz (or snooze) for long stretches if given the opportunity, but can also be up and fully alert within a couple of minutes if I need to be. And I drink very little caffeine (occasionally soda or tea, but no coffee of any kind), so I don’t need it to boot up my system.
Also, I discovered something very peculiar in college: after pulling an almost-all-nighter (mostly awake with 20 to 30 min. naps every hour and a half or so), during my next fully alert phase (like, when I was actually in the damn class that I stayed up for), I found that my body was producing something - adrenaline or some other chemical - that almost seemed to be forcing my body to stay awake. It’s hard to explain, but I would always feel a little tense and hyperactive, but exhausted at the same time. Not a real good combo.
Am I the only one who sets the alarm clock on weekends, just so I can experience the joy of waking up, then going back to sleep?
Yeah, I know it’s weird, but it just feels so good, physically, for some reason. I really enjoy that 30 seconds of going back to sleep.
I hit snooze during the week since I’ve usually been up very late the night before and my office has a very relaxed stance on starting time. If I feel awake, I get right up, otherwise I snooze for another 20 minutes or so.
On the weekends, OTOH, I do a part-time performance gig that requires me to stick to very strict schedules (though different for each day). Somehow, I’ve conditioned myself to automatically get out of bed on these days the moment the alarm rings, regardless of the time. Often, I’ll be in the kitchen starting to make breakfast while still sorting out where I am and what I’m doing.
I hate waking up and having to get out of bed right then, so I set my alarm to go off 2 hours before I need to leave. This lets me wake up, and then fall back into a lighter snooze for about an hour and a half more. My alarm is clock radio, and it’s set to a radio station that’s annoying enough to keep me from falling into a deep sleep.
On top of that, the clock is set 10 minutes fast, so when I’m “on time”, I’ve got a little time to spare, and when I’m “late”, I’m not too bad off.
My work schedule isn’t very strict and it doesn’t really matter if I sleep 20 minutes late, though. I’d probably have a more straightforward method if I absolutely and consistently had to be somewhere at a certain time.
I usually hit snooze about 4 times, giving me an extra 20 minutes of interrupted sleep - it works for me, though I’m trying to break the habit. As it is, I usually wake up a few minutes before the alarm is to ring. I need to force myself to get out of bed immediately after I wake up the first time. Thus far, keeping the cellphone on the other side of my room hasn’t helped.
Not a snoozer. Not a morning person either - but why drag out the inevitable
I have a screaming meanie.
Whatever time you set it for, it goes off 10 minutes early , then 5 minutes early if you hit the snooze button. When it gets to the set time you can’t snooze it. You have to press 3 buttons at once to turn it off. I have to be scared awake or the alarm has to be where I have to get up to silence it otherwise I’m likely to turn it off in my sleep.
I do that too The way I see it, what’s the point in a lie-in if you’re asleep? You can’t savour it!
I’m lucky in that I don’t have to get up till about 8.15am (that gives me half an hour to get out of the door). I have a two-stage alarm clock - the radio comes on at 7.25, then the alarm comes on at 7.35. I can usually fit in a good four or five snooze cycles before finally dragging myself out of bed.
In my head I know that I’d probably feel more rested if I set the alarm later and had more unbroken sleep, but I can’t do it.
Strangely, though, on rare occasions I feel wide awake when the first alarm goes off. However, I usually think “Well I’m not getting up this early!” and proceed to go through the snooze cycle, by which time I’m as groggy as ever…
Great topic - I used to scoff at “snoozers” - decrepit, slothful souls, unworthy of comment.
However - there is no commodity like another 20 minutes of sleep when it’s needed. Morning is great though, and there is something to be said against those who don’t take advantage of it. The whole point for me is to get up early enough so as not to be rushed, install some coffee and bump into things for a while.
I’ve tried the weekend thing of setting the alarm it doesn’t work for some reason. Worse, is forgetting what day it is and thinking one is late in getting up.
There’s something wrong with you. 
I’m a huge snoozer. I need a few minutes to just lay in bed, and *enjoy * laying in bed, all warm and snuggly and happy. That’s how I start the day.