Use the snooze button or not?
Per the Zen Clock thread.
I prefer to get all of my sleep in one uninterrupted chunk. Hitting the snooze button may feel good in the short term, but it just makes waking up all the more difficult.
How about you?
Yes, it is very painful to hit the snooze. I very rarely subject myself to that type of torture.
Incredible.
I had this very conversation at work today. Having arrived late I said that I couldn’t recall hitting the snooze button but must have done so many times. One of my workmates said that he ahd bought an old bell style alarm clock some years ago after reading that using the snooze button actually depletes the benefit of the sleep you have already had. He swears that when he started getting up at the one and only ring of his alarm he felt much better than if he’d had a “couple of 9 minute snoozes”.
Maybe I should try it out.
I sometimes hit snooze on the weekends, but find getting out of bed very rough when I do. I never do during the week, and it actually does seem like waking up is easier when I haven’t been waking up every 9 minutes for some unknown period of time.
Heh. I am Queen of the Snooze.
I set my alarm for 2:00, knowing that I have to get up by 3:30ish. At 2:00–this is pathetic, really–I get out of bed, reset my alarm for 3:00, and then feel very smug as I sleep for another hour.
At 3:00, I hit the snooze a few times, until it either wakes up the baby or I know I HAVE to get up and get moving. Back when I had a radio alarm, I could hit the snooze the instant after that tiny little “click” that you hear a split second before the music starts. Since the babies came along, though, I don’t seem to be quite as quick on the draw.
I have this horrid fake birds-in-the-woods alarm thingy. The Zen clock might be just the thing for me…
Best,
karol
Hit it twice this morning…and then slept through the second alarm going off, woke up in a panic!
I’ve got to start going to bed earlier; I feel like death warmed over about right now.
Aaarrghh, I hate hate hate snooze alarms. My college roommates used to be addicted.
I just don’t get the appeal; I don’t see how you can go back to sleep at all if you know the alarm is going to go off again. If I’ve set the alarm and I wake up before it goes off, I don’t go back to sleep unless I have at least an hour left. Waking up is too unpleasant to do more than once.
It was hell, but I managed to find an alarm clock (actually, it’s a bedroom phone with a built in alarm clock) that didn’t have the snooze feature.
I hate snooze buttons.
I find that the snooze helps me transition from sleep to wakefulness much more easily than hauling it out of bed on the single buzz. I have two alarm clocks, one of which sings obnoxious songs and sends my cats dashing from the room (heh) with no snooze. I set that one to go off first, then my standard clock radio with snooze to go off 15 minutes later. I allow myself two snoozes, sometimes three if I was up very late. I wake up fine with this system, whereas if I don’t snooze I feel more tired.
Maybe that’s another reason why I don’t like them; I had roommates in college that not only would use them a lot, but they’d also let their alarms go off for 10, 20 minutes or more (blaringly loud) without even getting out of bed. It’s so freaking rude. I’m married, and don’t want to bug my husband with the alarm.
I have to use the snooze.
My clock has two alarms, one set for 5:30am, and one for 6am.
The clock is on the other side of the room, so I have to get out of bed to turn it off.
It’s turned to a talk radio station.
So I get up at 5:30am, get out of bed, turn it off, and go back to bed.
Then it goes off at 6am.
I stay in bed, drowsing, and when I hear Clark Howard’s Consumer Warrior Tip of the Day I know it’s 6:20am and I HAVE to get up.
Then around 6:30am I roll out of bed.
I’m such a sick puppy. 
I always snooze.
I set my alarm twenty minutes earlier than I need to be up so I can get two snoozes in. I also keep the alarm clock across the room, so I have to physically get up to snooze/turn it off, so I don’t end up just flailing an arm at the clock from bed and continuing to sleep. KNBR is annoying as hell at 7 in the morning.
Getting up is quite the ordeal for me.
I appreciate those 9 minute chunks of sleep so much more when they come after a snooze. While you don’t even notice them at the end of seven hours.
I read an article several years ago that a study was done comparing the mental performance abilities of people who used the snooze button compared to people who got out of bed when they first woke up.
It takes the snoozers until NOON to catch up mentally with the non-snoozers.
Unbelievable. Did this knowledge motivate ME to break my snooze-button-addiction? NO friggin way!
But I do think about it sometimes when I’m dragging my butt all morning at work …
I only used my snooze button to see how long it would wait before setting the alarm off again: mine does a count down. First smack: 10 mintues. Second smack: 9 mintues. Third: 8. Etc. Once you’ve gone past the 10th hit (1 minute), it won’t turn it off.
I don’t use my snooze button for the same reason most have said: it’s even harder to get out of bed afterwards. May as well just bite the bullet and get up.
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I have a troubled relationship with alarm clocks in general; somebody needs to invent one that has like 20 different alarms b/c I grow immune to mine after about 3 months. It’ll go off for hours, and I won’t hear it; I missed a final exam in college b/c of this, and got a failing grade in the class. sob I have three different alarm clocks now, and I try to rotate them, but it usually doesn’t work.
As per the snooze button…I hate it and I love it. I use it in spite of myself. I can’t help it. I have to hit it.
[sub]And when I was a kid, I didn’t know there was a snooze button on my alarm clock; I just thought it was a funky old clock and that if you slapped it, it would stop for an indefinite period of time. Too many years went by before I looked on top of it and saw the word “snooze” and did the math.[/sub]
If your roommates were anything like me they likely wern’t laying there listening to the alarm go off for 20 minutes just to be rude, they were probably still asleep. I’m a very heavy sleeper, I use two alarms to wake up, both of which are loud enough to hear outside my apartment, with the front door closed. I’ll routinely sleep through them for a good 20-30 minutes before even being aware that they are going off. For that reason I don’t use the snooze button very often, as it could easilly take another 20 minutes to wake up again after the snooze timer has run out!
FSC, I think it is pretty safe to say that you are not sleeping. Hibernating, yes. Comatose, possibly. Certainly not just sleeping.
must…not…hit…snooze…
Seriously, I wake up quicker if I just get up, turn the thing off and do my morning routine. The snooze button gives me false hope.
Not to hijack this thread but…
Why does a snooze button give you 9 minutes of sleep? Why not 10?
I used to hit the snooze button like 10 times before getting up but I got a new alarm clock and I haven’t figured out how it works so I HAVE to get up on the first ring. I HATE IT