# Alarm clocks, are you a snoozer? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 17, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413 "2007-05-17T05:27:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/41 "2007-05-17T17:20:34Z")
I snooze once, maybe twice. It has a 10-minute interval. And I shouldn’t, because it makes me late for work (not that it matters.) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/42 "2007-05-17T17:31:51Z")
Gotta do what you gotta do, true enough. Of course, if you’re working till midnight and commuting 2 hours both way uphill, then have to be up at 4 to start it over again, I can see why one wouldn’t be a morning person. I wouldn’t be a morning person, either, if I had a job like that. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/43 "2007-05-17T17:38:07Z")
My wife will snooze for hours, getting up every ten minutes to hit the button and then returning to bed (the alarm clock’s against the far wall, about 5 ft from arm’s reach). Since she’s the one that always claims she needs to get up early, she sets the alarm for, say, 4am (like this morning) but won’t get up until 6 (unless you count emerging from bed and shuffling towards the clock “getting up”). Usually, by this point, I’m up (often earlier than I want or anticipate) and have moved on since hearing that damn thing going off every 10 minutes drives me crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/44 "2007-05-17T17:40:37Z")
I am totally a non-morning person and yet I despise that surly snooze button and never use it. Maybe part of the problem is I can fall asleep in two minutes or less, so the repeat wakes up up over…and over…and over again. Once the alarm goes off, I’m out of bed. I may not shine, but I’ll rise. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/45 "2007-05-17T17:42:30Z")
I never use snooze. I’ve trained myself to get out of bed as soon as the alarm sounds. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/46 "2007-05-17T17:44:56Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] How the hell do all these people manage with alarms going off at times with a “5” (or even a “4”!) at the beginning? No way on Earth I could do that on a regular basis. Fortunately I don’t have to leave home till 8.45am, although some nights I don’t get home till about 12.30am. I’m more likely to see 4.45am from the back end than get up at that time. [/QUOTE] Well, I leave the house at 6am. and Get back home from work around 4:15. That’s worth it to me. One of the nice things about this is I don’t run into ‘traffic’ (what there is of it) much. Heck, the first leg of my drive to work is about 15 miles. In that distance there have been times when I don’t see a single other car. Also, its nice to get home early, I often have to plow, and the little bit of extra light is nice. And I get home before my Wife, so I don’t have another car to worry about/move. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/47 "2007-05-17T17:55:08Z")
I’m a morning person and I’m morally opposed to the snooze button. However, my wife is morally opposed to being a morning person, and since the time has come that she has to get up for work at the same time that I do, our routines have changed a bit. It used to be that I’d set my alarm (known within the household as the “turbochickens” due to my wife’s interpretation of the alarm’s rather insistent and malevolent squawking), bounce out of bed as soon as it went off, and then it would be my responsibility to get her up and going when she needed to be up. Now, however, she sets HER alarm to go off sometime between 5:30 and 5:40am. And then she engages the snooze repeatedly. Over time, and perhaps as a sympathetic reaction, I’ve begun to ignore her alarm when it first goes off as well. I know I don’t need to be up at 5:40. Sadly, now neither one of us actually gets out of bed at 6, though, unless we are woken up by our bladders. We’re lucky to crawl out of bed by 6:30. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/48 "2007-05-17T17:55:16Z")
Not a snoozer. Waking up is bad enough, I don’t want to have to do it several times in a row! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/49 "2007-05-17T18:09:17Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] How the hell do all these people manage with alarms going off at times with a “5” (or even a “4”!) at the beginning? [/QUOTE] Up by 5:30am, out the door by 6:15, at work by 6:30. Morning is the best time of day, when everything is fresh and new and all you slugabeds haven’t gotten around to clogging up the roads yet. And I do it every day, without coffee! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/50 "2007-05-17T18:12:45Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Up by 5:30am, out the door by 6:15, at work by 6:30. Morning is the best time of day, when everything is fresh and new and all you slugabeds haven’t gotten around to clogging up the roads yet. And I do it every day, without coffee! 😛 [/QUOTE] Just a mild sidetrack because you reminded me of my daily experience commuting by train. I normally get on a train at 7am. People are lively and having conversations and just generally enjoying their relaxing morning time before they have to hit the office. But sometimes, if I’ve got something going on in the morning, I have to catch a train at 6:20. What. A. Difference. Like going from a party to a funeral. Everyone is either sleeping or being grumpy because they wish they were asleep. Where have all the morning folk gone? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/51 "2007-05-17T18:37:31Z")
I don’t snooze, but I also don’t jump right up and get out of bed. Usually I wake up and stare balefully at the alarm. When that does nothing to return me to night time I will sit up and stare balefully at the alarm. This may take 20 minutes total. Unfortunatly I am giving one the guys who works for me a ride to work, so I cannot actually snooze if I want to. I had a head cold a few weeks back and just wanted to stay in bed a while. My work hours are flexible enough that I could have. But alas, I had commitments to keep. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/52 "2007-05-17T21:03:56Z")
I am not a morning person, but I’m also not a snooze person. I _hate_ the snooze button. I don’t understand people who talk about the joy of waking up to go back to sleep. I can’t stand that because it generally takes me a bit to fall asleep after being woken up. The best I could do in the 9 minute snooze window is juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust start to almost possibly drift off… and then get woken up. What’s the point? I also have this super fear of oversleeping and then getting in trouble at (then) school and (now) work. My boyfriend can’t stand that when the alarm sounds, I _bolt_ up immediately, heh. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/53 "2007-05-17T21:42:04Z")
[QUOTE=Red Barchetta] 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. [/QUOTE] I actually would like to do this but my other half would scream as he can’t fall back asleep then. Cars wake him. Kids wake him. _Dust falling on the pillow_ wakes him. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/54 "2007-05-18T18:05:03Z")
Currently, I set the alarm on readio for 7 and buzzer for 8. I then hit the snooze every 8 minutes from 7 until 8, then hit the snooze 3 or 4 more times until I drag myself out of bed at 8:30 (hopefully). At one time I had 5 alarm clocks with varying snooze times all arranged so that an alarm would initially go off every 10 minutes, then every 5 minutes, and by about 20 minutes later there was one going off every minute. Then, again, I have been known to sleep through all five alarms, my pager going off, the telephone ringing and people leaving messages. There are some people who are just NOT morning people. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/55 "2007-05-18T18:19:20Z")
[QUOTE=zweisamkeit] I _hate_ the snooze button. I don’t understand people who talk about the joy of waking up to go back to sleep. I can’t stand that because it generally takes me a bit to fall asleep after being woken up. The best I could do in the 9 minute snooze window is juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust start to almost possibly drift off… and then get woken up. What’s the point? [/QUOTE] That pretty much sums up how I feel. I hate having the alarm go off once. Why would I want to listen to it again, and again, and again? I don’t like to torture myself. I also will only use the radio on the alarm, because I can’t stand that loud blaring sound most alarms make. My husband used to be a snoozer, but has weaned himself of the habit. It helps that we both get up at exactly the same time, so when I get up, he gets up. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/56 "2007-05-19T03:29:30Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] How the hell do all these people manage with alarms going off at times with a “5” (or even a “4”!) at the beginning? No way on Earth I could do that on a regular basis. [/quote] You’d just get used to it. I do most of my resting on the weekends, really. I refuse to go to bed early. I usually dont even try to start falling asleep until about 11:30 or so. I’m usually not asleep until after midnight. Damn alarm is screaming 3-4 hours later! The one good thing for me is I dont have to do anything complicated first thing in the morning. I put on shorts and a shirt and running shoes (usually all half asleep). I find my way out the door and into my car. After a 20 minute drive, it’s time to excersise. After that, I’m wide awake! Never underestimate how much a 5 mile run can wake you up in the morning. After and hour or so of working out, I go back home and actually “get ready” for work. (shower, etc) I have to be back to work by 8:30am. Then it’s sit on my ass until 5pm. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Also, I’ve recently discovered 24oz Monster drinks. Holy Crap!!! Where have these things been all my life??? ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/57 "2007-05-19T04:43:59Z")
I’m a “seize and throw against the wall as hard as possible”, which is why I don’t use alarm clocks anymore. ---
**Author:** ![shimmery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@shimmery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shimmery)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/58 "2007-05-19T05:30:13Z")
I recently discovered that if I hit my 10-minute snooze twice in succession, it gives me 20 minutes. If I hit it three times, it gives me 30. It’s sooooo good … but sooooo dangerous… I usually set my alarm for 2 hours before I have to leave the house, then snooze for as long as I have to, up to 10 minutes before leaving if absolutely necessary. Unless I left myself work to do in the morning, in which case the calculations become rather complicated. 🙂 Until I read this thread it never occured to me to beat myself up for being “addicted” to the snooze button. It’s just the way I prefer to wake up… thank you, alarm clock technology! ---
**Author:** ![Tarkovsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tarkovsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarkovsky)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/59 "2007-05-19T16:39:03Z")
I usually wake up a half hour before my alarm clock goes off and get out of bed the second I’m conscious enough to realize that I’m awake. No need to hit snooze when the alarm hasn’t even gone off… On the rare occasion that the alarm wakes me up, I promptly turn it off and jump out of bed. Yes, I \*am \*a morning person. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413/60 "2007-05-19T16:42:40Z")
I have never used the snooze. I use my cellphone as an alarm because I hate the noise alarm clocks make. I don’t think it even has a snooze. My body usually wakes me up before my alarm and I lay in bed for a bit and usually end up turning the alarm off before it sounds and getting up. I love to sleep, but I HATE being late so I always get my ass up. I’m not hard to wake up either; I don’t understand how my friends can sleep through alarms and multiple cell phone calls etc. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarm-clocks-are-you-a-snoozer/404413.md?page=4)