# To Snooze or Not to Snooze? (button) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-snooze-or-not-to-snooze-button/186959 "2003-07-08T08:11:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-snooze-or-not-to-snooze-button/186959/21 "2003-07-08T20:21:15Z")
Cecil [answers](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a991126.html) your question, Isabelle. ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-snooze-or-not-to-snooze-button/186959/22 "2003-07-08T21:15:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ferret Herder \* > \*\*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. \*\* Mine does this, too!!! For an hour usually… Wouldn’t bother me that much if it wasn’t the hour before I have to get up. She’s started doing this in the last month or so, I guess I’ll have to have a roomie to roomie talk. God, I hate those. And I think I’d rather sleep soundly til the last minute I have to get up. Why bother waking up and stirring fretfully, hitting the snooze button all the time? (That and I tend to just switch off the alarmclock by accident and oversleep.) ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-snooze-or-not-to-snooze-button/186959/23 "2003-07-08T23:46:16Z")
I’m with **Fretful Porpentine**. I just don’t see the point. Once I’m awake, I’m awake, and even if I’m out of it there’s no way I can go back to sleep. I rarely sleep through to the alarm, when I use it; I usually wake up about thirty minutes before it’s supposed to go off. I guess my brain knows I’ll be getting up but doesn’t like to be startled awake. I also can’t function on less then about eight hours of sleep for more than a couple of nights in a row. It does make getting up easier when I’ve had ENOUGH SLEEP. Maybe some of you ought to try it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![\_ceQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b9bd4f/32.png) [@\_ceQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_ceQueen)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-snooze-or-not-to-snooze-button/186959/24 "2003-07-09T02:39:18Z")
I know that if I train myself _not_ to hit the snooze button, I’ll simply **sleep through the alarm**. I’ve slept through alarms that were blaring right next to my head for two hours (it stops after 2 hrs), multiple times. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-snooze-or-not-to-snooze-button/186959/25 "2003-07-09T05:51:26Z")
I got the problem licked. I work midnight shift so I get home at 8:30, eat, watch a little TV then bed about 10. I wake up whenever I feel like it, usually about 4 or 5 and then have my whole day. I havn’t used an alarm clock in 3 years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-snooze-or-not-to-snooze-button/186959.md?page=1)