The sweetest slumber happens in those stolen minutes after the first alarm. Like dawdling to play with the neighbor’s dog instead of coming straight home from school, or sneaking a nip of blackberry schnapps after your parents have gone to bed. No, it’s not very adult-like, but few adult pleasures are as rich.
I’m one of those who could never see the purpose of snooze alarms. When my alarm sounds, I’m awake instantly. Moreover, if I did hit the snooze button it wouldn’t help me: There’s no way I’d be able to fall asleep knowing the alarm is going to sound again in just a few minutes.
Yeah - I think I may fear that if I did not have this level of discipline, I might become more of a - apologies for the term - fuck up. Doing things on a schedule is one way to ensure that I do what needs to be done.
But I’m pretty good at making decisions and sticking to them. If I thought this was a good time to wake last night, it probably is still a good time this morning. And I get to bed early enough that I get enough sleep.
Yeah, until I inherited the caring and feeding of my dad after Mom died, I never used the snooze button. But I still do now even though I’m marginally less stressed these days.
For me it’s the difference between my ambitious ideals / wishful thinking, and pragmatic reality.
Anyway I found a better solution, a progressive chime. It’s a less jarring sound, which by itself feels like a more welcoming introduction to consciousness (is it really that strange that people would come to negatively associate waking up with a screeching banshee?).
That would probably be enough, but it also waits awhile for the second chime, and gradually chimes more often until turned off.
I haven’t tried them, but I imagine the ones that use light or vibration are also friendlier and more effective.
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I don’t use a snooze alarm, but if you’re setting your alarm at 9:00 am then of course it’s easy to get up, assuming you went to sleep before 3:00 am, which most people do.
Anyone who can sleep that much shouldn’t be lecturing others.
Exactly.
My phone alarm mostly nags me at medication times. SNOOZE lets me postpone hauling my butt off the sofa.
Sleep-shaming?
Heh, my gf never adjusts her vehicle clocks. So, she buys a car and the clock is correct when she drives off the lot. Daylight Saving Time, she leaves it be. Dead battery, she leaves it. She’ll point out the discrepancy; “it’s actually 3 hours and 14 minutes later than what the clock says”, and just does the math.
Meanwhile, if my Jeep clock is a minute off I fix it.
I go to bed extremely late, set my alarm clock for around 5:40, and then snooze for about an hour and a half. I’m sure it’s not a good healthy habit, but it works with my lifestyle. I’m a night owl and if I were to just set my alarm clock and attempt to get up immediately, I would fall right back to sleep and not get to work on time.
I dont use the snooze, but I set about a half dozen alarms. This is simply because I will turn off the alarms without actually waking up. Hell, if I didn’t have a dog jumping on my face in the morning, I’d probably be late to work half of the time. My dog ensures that I am never late.
I guess polygamy keeps you young and spry. 
Actually, two of us have been baptized into the Mormon church…
Using a snooze alarm allows me, an adult, to trick myself into feeling like I have more time than I actually do. One of my biggest complaints since have children is not feeling like I can luxuriate in bed. Hitting snooze helps me pretend like I can because I’m not glancing at the clock every minute to make sure I still have a few minutes.
It also allows me to hop out of bed, jack up the heat in the house (we sleep really cold) and stay warm while the rest of the house warms up so I don’t have to freeze my ass off when I get in the shower.
My husband, on the other hand, uses a snooze because he is physically incapable - and I don’t mean that in a snarky way; he truly seems to have an issue - of hopping out of bed with the first alarm.
I’m always impressed with people who don’t need snooze alarms. In fact, according to most of what I’ve read, you shouldn’t use a snooze; however, screw that. It works for us, and even though my intellectual side consumed that information, my body has yet to get that message.
This should be the stock answer for all of the “Why isn’t everybody like me?” posts.
I have a cheap thermostat that has 4 temps for “Weekdays” and 4 for each of “saturday” and “sunday”. So I let the house get cool when we are away at work, and turn the heat down quite a bit while we sleep – BUT, the house magically warms up before I have to leave bed.
It didn’t cost much and was easy to swap in for the existing thermostat. I actually spent a lot more time picking out which one I wanted to buy than actually replacing it. And I’m not super-handy.
Just wait until my wife gets onto you and pints out how stupid and pintless it is to turn the heat up in the morning when you are trying to sleep and are just going to get up and go to work anyway and you should just get up when it’s time to get up and how any sane and considerate and intelligent person knows it’s a stupid and thoughtless action …
All this talk of pints makes me wonder what kind of homebrew would be named Snooze Alarm. Would it have caffeine? Ooooo! It should have coffee and chocolate.