The sleep you get when you know you’re sleeping and cheating time is the best sleep. I actually set my alarm for 7:30 just in case, but usually I wake up at 6 or so and change it to 7:45. Then I snooze alarm until 8.
I used to hit the snooze about 5-6 times. Then we got a puppy. He HAS to go outside immediately.
Hell, I don’t even need the alarm clock any more. It used to be set at 5:15, and I would get up at 5:45. But my husband’s goes off at 4:50. He hits snooze one time, then gets up.
I now get up at 4:50 or 4:59. (Gotta have one snooze sometimes! It’s a risk I take, but cleaning up puppy pee or poo first thing in the morning bites, lemme tell ya.)
Sounds like some of you need Clocky the Robotic Alarm Clock or the Flying Alarm Clock
Oh man. I’ve been wanting to post something on this topic for a while and never have. Not only do I not hit the snooze button, I never need to set an alarm. My wife is a snoozaholic and it bugs the crap out of me.
5:00
5:09
5:18
5:27
5:36
5:45
… and finally out of bed. Then it’s shower, hair dryer, banging around and out of the house at 6:30 whereby I get a final hour’s sleep before getting up.
It licketh. I’ve tried relentlessly to tell her how selfish I think this is, but to no avail.
I lived in Army barracks for a while during my stint, and one day I get a new roommate.
Good guy and all, but get this - he set his alarm for something like 3 in the morning and started hitting the snooze. I thought maybe he had to go in early or something, but no he finally got up around 6:15, just in time to make morning PT formation.
I didn’t say anything, but the next night sure enough, it went off at some ungodly hour, so I got up and started my day. Problem solved.
Snooze is a gift from God. Snooze makes my life possible. Waking up is a process, dammit. Who *are * you crazy people who can just leap out of a nice warm bed and start *doing stuff * first thing in the morning?
Not to diminish your frustration, but what about ear plugs?
Like others have said, it’s a great gift to be able to make a smoother transition from full sleep to wakefulness. I usually hit the button twice, with a 7 minute snooze setting. Then I’ll often lay there in bed listening to the radio for anywhere from 1-10 minutes before getting up.
But I can also see where this would cause a lot of problems in a relationship if it got out of hand. When I was married, I seriously cut back on it. Doing otherwise when the spouse doesn’t like it is selfish and disruptive. What helped then was that I would allow her to use the bathroom first while I snoozed.
If I have to wake up to a regular alarm clock buzzing, it pisses me off to no end. Since I was in high school(say, over ten years) I’ve woken up to an alarm on my stereo. As long as I manage to change out the cds with some vague sense of regularity, it’s a wonderful way to wake up. The stereo is across the room from my bed, so I have to be at least semi-awake to turn it off, and I’ve got the volume at such a level that unless I haven’t slept in a week it’ll wake me up.
-Lil
My boyfriend was staying with me a couple of months back, and to give me a much-appreciated break he offered to get my son up for school in the morning so I could sleep in. So when the alarm went off at 7am, I prodded him to make sure he was awake, and then rolled back over. But I didn’t fall totally asleep because I didn’t feel him get out of bed. He was awake, but just laying there, I guess trying to wake up. I didn’t realize that for him he required this buffer time of lounging around before getting out of bed–and I hadn’t factored it in. My son’s bus comes at 7:20. 7am is the latest time he can be woken up to have time to get ready for school… so when my boyfriend finally got out of bed at like 7:08 my son had to seriously race around in a panic to not miss the bus. I’m totally not that way. If I need to get the kid up, I get out of bed the minute the alarm goes off and go wake him up. I may not be totally awake myself, and I may be staggering around–hell I may even go back to sleep (he’s old enough to get himself ready and out the door unsupervised if he has to) but I always make sure that I get up and wake him up at the right time.
It sort of freaked me out because it hadn’t occurred to me that it was one of the possible options. I just don’t work like that. So while I appreciated not having to get out of bed, I still lay there awake in bed until I knew my son had made it on the bus.
I’m not even aware the first time I hit the snooze button in the morning. It’s just an automatic response. I’ll get up the second or third time the alarm goes off though and be walking out the door 20 minutes later after I shower etc. When I had an SO, she had to be at work an hour and a half before I did so her alarm was necessarily set earlier. Exact same clock as mine, I just never heard it. Putting a clock across the room doesn’t work for me either. If I can’t reach it, I can ignore it.
I’m a light sleeper. I wake up to her alarm even if I sleep on the couch in the family room, or in the basement of our bungalow.
BEEP!!!
BEEP!!!
BEEP!!!
BEEP!!!
FUCKING BEEP!!!
BEEP!!!
BEEP!!!
BEEP!!!
BEEP!!!
FUCKING BEEP!!!
All ear plugs would do is make me focus more on my own breathing.
I’m a snoozer like so many others here. I also need the process of waking up.
I used to do two alarm clocks, one at the head of the bed and one across the room but one of them died so I just went to one clock about a step away from the bed. I also give myself 30 minutes for snoozing (and my alarm clock is 10 minutes fast) The clock has no snooze button, the entire top of the clock is the snooze so I just have to touch it. It also has a descending snooze time, I think the first one is about 9 or 10 minutes, the next is a few minutes shorter and then it ends up about 5 minutes long. I can roll out of bed, touch the clock and step back and fall into bed. I usually am not aware of the first alarm. The snoozes also get my cats moving around and they help to wake me up as well, they’ll start playing on the bed and running across me.
When my boyfriend happens to stay over when I have to be to work the next day he seems to think that the alarm means he can start getting frisky. I had to explain to him that I factor that snooze time into my sleep time and I must have it or I get grumpy and I have no extra time for other activities once I am awake enough to get out of bed, so just forget about any action when I have to get to work.
I knew this morning was going to be a bad day when it started out with the snooze function not turning off when I touched it. I started beating on the clock. One of my cats got annoyed and walked up and swatted at my ankles to see if he could get the snooze bar to work. I finally had to shut it off and reset the alarm for 10 minutes later. The rest of the day went downhill from there. Some “highlights” were stepping in dog poop, breaking two fingernails down to the quick on two separate occasions and getting a crappy iced coffee from Dunkin Donuts. Those are just the ones I can explain in one sentence.
I hate waking up…and I’d rather do it only once a day 
I don’t like the snooze button. Mainly because I often go to bed late and need every minute of real sleep I can get. Also I have an uncanny knack for waking about a minute or two before the alarm goes off anyway (though I always set the alarm, if I don’t I can’t sleep through fear of sleeping in.) Funny thing is, If I’m tired enough to NOT wake before the alarm goes, then i don’t wake WHEN the alarm goes either. Instead I get woken by my wife shoving me and telling me to turn off the alarm :).
Before I went to keeping my alarm clock in the next bedroom…(I’m a heavy sleeper–once I get to sleep its hell to wake me–and always have been), I used to put the the time on my alarm clock at odd later hours. 47 minutes later. 1 hour thirteen minutes later. Odd odd times.
It would go off, I would see the time and freak out. “Holy shit, I’m running so late!”
But what it really did was allow me to subtract like 17 minutes easily. B/c I’d get used to it and realize, “Oh I can sleep for 14.5 more minutes.”
Even after I moved the alarm clock into another room, I kept it on those weird times for ages–it was what I was used to.
It messed my b/f’s head up.
He finally learned to get up and go look in the next room for what time it was…but would have to come in and say “Its says 7:42. What time is it really?”
Oh god… I don’t know what would make more noise in the morning - Clocky or my dog chasing the thing!
My fiance does this. Drives my insane when I don’t have to get up. Just get up already so I can go back to sleep!
My relationship with the snooze button is complicated and bizarre. Most days I have the clock set for an hour before I absolutely, positively have to be up and out of bed. The snooze setting runs for one hour, and during that hour I will either hit the button, change position and fall back to sleep, or get up, go potty and crawl back into bed, or do some stretching exercises in bed between beeps. Then there are the days when I will sit up in bed and knit or read between the beeps…the challenge is, how many rows can I knit in nine minutes?
The cat, now that she is an only cat, has developed the habit of coming in and yowling at me about 15 minutes before the alarm goes off. I finally gave up trying to change her, and just set my alarm for Chloe time. I wake up slightly, start petting her until she settles back down or leaves, and then go back to sleep. The problem starts when she finally snuggles in, all comfy and ready to start her day of sleep, and she’s between me and the alarm. Then when the snooze goes off, I have to shove her out of the way to roll over to get the alarm. If I get up and go to the bathroom and find her curled up in my spot when I get back (as opposed to following me to the bathroom and demanding to sit on my lap in there) then I know that all bets are off and it’s time to really wake up.
If I had a partner, I would not do any of the above behaviors. I am very considerate of others when they are sleeping. When I look back at my marriage, I realize that the theme of morning consideration was a big warning sign that I ignored. My ex had no qualms at all about waking up at o’dark thirty, flipping on all the lights in the bathroom and bedroom, taking his shower, blowdrying his hair and getting dressed while making as much noise as possible. He didn’t care if I’d been up all night with the baby and had just finally gotten him and me back to sleep. He didn’t care if the kids didn’t have to wake up for school for another 2.5 hours…nope, his needs were the most important. Whereas if I had to get up early and ahead of him, I would get up quietly, not turn on the lights in the bedroom, turn on the bathroom light only after closing the door, and I would blowdry my hair down in the living room so as not to disturb him, get dressed in the dark…all pretty much because he would grouse at me if I didn’t. I’d keep my blowdryer in a basket in the living room so I wouldn’t have to drag it back and forth…and the jerk complained that he didn’t like the look of the dryer in the living room. It’s not like people ever came over to the house! That’s when I knew that we had some serious problems!
How the hell do you people get up at times with a 5 or even a 4 at the beginning?!
I have enough trouble getting out of bed before 8 (but then I don’t usually go to bed till 1 or 2am. Not a morning person at all.
I’m surprised that the OP gets annoyed by his wife’s snooze alarm, though. My girlfriend’s alarm goes off an hour before mine, and she hits the snooze once or twice – but I only know this because she tells me. I never ever hear her alarm – I assume my brain knows it’s not for me and completely blocks it out. The only time it woke me up was when she got a new alarm clock with a different alarm sound. The first day, it woke me up too – after that, nothing. I do sleep very soundly, though. It worries me a bit, as I reckon I’d easily sleep through the smoke alarm.