I have a clock with a big, lit face that imitates the sunrise. I have it set so that it starts getting a dim red about five, becomes slowly brighter and whiter until at 5:30 it’s fully lit and chirping like a flock of birds. The flock will chirp until six, when it shuts down.
But that’s background, just to fight the winter darkness. I set my phone and snooze at least three times. Those snoozes are just too sweet to deprive myself of.
Lol, I have the same question, but the answer is simple: It’s us. Not them. Us. We’re the Special Ones granted the True Gift of Instant Awakedness. It comes from superior wiring, I’m positive. 
It, er, wasn’t until I was waking up in other peoples beds that I noticed this, that they noticed this. “I don’t know how to handle a guy who gets on his feet within seconds of opening his eyes”… but, then, I don’t know how to handle a person who sleeps past 9 on Saturday, so whatcha gonna do? 
(I don’t take long to fall asleep either - it’s on, then off, then on for me like a switch. Hell, I itch to get out of bed if I don’t soon enough.)
“What? I’ve been watching you sleep for over an hour!”
Well, my alarm goes off at 6:30. I get up, take my morning pills, use the toilet, and stretch our my calves. Then I go back to bed and enjoy a few more minutes of restful quiet before my second alarm goes off telling me it’s time to get dressed and all that, and catch the train.
I started doing this because taking my morning pills used to “wake up” my guts, and I missed the train a couple of times due to my urgent need to empty my bowels. So I gave myself enough time after taking my pills to do that, if I had to. My diurnal cycle has since changed, and now I rarely need to empty my bowels until mid-morning. But I’ve gotten into the habit of the dual alarm thing.
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I didn’t use the snooze feature for years and years. Then, I started to fall back asleep or even sleep through my alarm, mainly because I wasn’t sleeping well due to stress. That’s when I discovered the wonderful snooze feature. It helps me to actually be able to fall back to sleep for a few minutes. When the alarm goes off again, my body doesn’t protest the getting up so much.
Back before I got my CPAP, I got very poor quality sleep. My best REM sleep usually didn’t happen for hours, and therefore I was usually deep, deep down when my alarm went off. The first alarm would barely even rouse me (often I didn’t even remember hitting snooze for the first time), the second would mostly wake me up, and by the third I was actually ready to get out of bed. Sleep apnea’s a bitch.
Now that I sleep well, I’m usually awake before the alarm and rarely if ever need a snooze. But I get it.
As with most things, everybody’s different. I do not use a snooze on my alarm (95% of the time I don’t need it, but I do set it just in case), but I do wake up naturally in bits and pieces. I actually get really annoyed if I sleep straight through; I’m used to waking up a couple hours after going to sleep, then maybe a couple hours after that, then about an hour before I need to get up, then a half hour, then maybe ten minutes. That’s pretty much how I’ve always been. Only exception is when I’m ill and falling down tired. Then I’ll sleep the eight hours straight through. Otherwise, I like waking up several times during the night, and more and more often before I need to actually wake up.
So, no snooze for me, but I totally get it and basically do the same thing myself with my sleep habits.
You lay down on a bed to sleep? I sleep standing in the shower, saves the 12 second walk from the bed.
Ugh, I hate hate HATE snooze alarms. I mean, I don’t care whether people use them in the privacy of their own home, as long as it is not an apartment building with thin walls, but if you are sharing a dorm or a hotel room with another person … Just. Do. Not. Because if that other person is me, I will be wide awake and resentful while you are having your snooze.
(I’m also one of those people who hardly ever sets the alarm at home. On the rare occasions when I do set an alarm because I have to get up really early or something, I generally do not get much sleep at all; I will wake up at four o’clock in the morning and be unable to get back to sleep, because apparently my whole body finds being woken by an alarm really stressful and will do almost anything to avoid it.)
I understand that as I often share a hotel room with two others who love to snooze and use LOUD alarms. But worse was an ex-boyfriend who had rigged his extremely bright bedside light and radio alarm to turn on at 4 AM and would then fall back asleep with them still going. Even on weekends. Grrrrr.
I like having the option of getting up a little earlier than I normally have to. For example, if I can hear the sound of a snow shovel or car windows being scraped from outside, I will get up on one of the earlier alarms. Same if have to pack some extra lunch supplies or want to spend a little more time reading about some news story that was breaking last night before bed.
I’m another NO on snooze alarms. I always say, being woken up is bad enough, why would I want it to happen multiple times in one morning?
(Although thanks to my furry four-legged alarm clock, that’s what sometimes ends up happening anyway. :mad:)
I usually only use the snooze function in the winter months - I don’t exactly bounce out of bed when it is still pitch dark outside, so I like to be eased into the day. It’ll not even be a couple of months before I’m woken up by the birds singing outside my bedroom window. Sing, bonnie blackbird, for a new day has dawned!
I am officially pro-snooze-alarm. The first time it goes off, you go from dead asleep to 80% asleep. Next time 80% to 60%. Continue till you’re more or less compos-mentis. Each successive ringing has **some **effect, just not an “all the way from sleep to wake” effect. Attempting to be vertical while not actually really awake is not indicated in my case.
Over the last five years, however, my body seems to have naturally re-wired itself to believe that around 5am is a good time for waking up, so it’s not really a live issue any more. “Waking up” is, however, a process that takes around an hour or so
I’m afraid I’m going to have to hunt you down and murder you now. No hard feelings
Yeah. Some of us don’t actually make it all the way to awake the first time. If I were to just turn the alarm off the first time it went off I’d always be late. Sometimes it takes 3 cycles before enough neurons are firing for me to actually open my eyes.
You didn’t close your snark tag. Maybe a mod can fix?
Actually in this case the open tag flows through, resulting in the entire thread after being snark. (As both our posts demonstrate.)
Does anyone else turn on an audiobook when you hit the first snooze?
Didn’t Cecil have a column long ago about why snooze alarms are generally nine minutes duration? I think it was something to do with standard gear ratios in the clocks at the time. Nowadays, of course, that’s pretty much moot.
Edit: ah yes, here it is: Why does the alarm clock snooze button give you nine extra minutes, not ten? - The Straight Dope
Anyway, I see a snooze alarm as an example of redundant design to enhance system reliability. We know the clock is going to fail to wake us up some mornings. Why let it off the hook from trying again and again until it succeeds?
None taken.