To Snooze or Not to Snooze

I definitely hit the snooze at least 5 times in the morning - and my snooze is only 5 minutes! To compensate I find myself setting my alarm earlier and earlier, bad news but I just don't know how to break a 10+ year habit! (and I do also get to sleep early...I'm a sleep fiend!)

I used to set my alarm early so I could hit the snooze a couple of times, but lately I've just been setting it for when I need to get up and not hitting the snooze at all. It really helps make sure you get enough sleep.

Occasionally, just one time. I find if I hit my snooze button and then fall asleep again, I will just end up feeling more groggy than if I just wake up.

Too many times I hit that button each morning. I trying to change this habit.

Trying to get out of this habit but I am guilty as charged. Sometimes before bed I practice by lying down and pretending to be asleep. And then my husband will randomly start screaming buzz buzz, and I will practice pressing the alarm clock and standing up. It helps

NEVERRRRRRRR! I don't even know where the snooze button is on my alarm clock!

I use my phone as my alarm, and I put it on my dresser so that I have to get out of bed to turn it off. I read about that in a teen magazine when I was like 10... placing your alarm clock across the room from your bed so that you have to get out of bed to turn it off. It's quite effective and I haven't hit the snooze button in like 15 years.

I never used to, but I've been guilty as charged now that I have a job that has a flexible start time.

I use the snooze button and I often find that the last ten minutes of sleep are the most restorative. I don't know how it works, but my dad's a sleep specialist and he always recommends getting an extra ten in the morning if you simply are not OK to get up.

I've used it for at least 10 years. In high school, I had to get out of bed to press it, but I still did. I had roommates 3 out of 4 years of college, so I couldn't get away with it as much, but since I've graduated it's gotten worse. I sometimes press it every ten minutes for an hour. My boyfriend is even worse. He sets his alarm to get up at 5:30 to run, but usually doesn't get out of bed until after 7:00. He presses his snooze button the entire time.

SillyGirl your practice run description really made me laugh!
Sometimes I don't press it at all, I just jump out of bed (and deal with the head rush).
Other times when I don't have a specific time to be somewhere I'll press it over and over for like an hour. I might as well just set my alarm for later and sleep properly for that hour!

SillyGirl your practice run description really made me laugh!
Sometimes I don't press it at all, I just jump out of bed (and deal with the head rush).
Other times when I don't have a specific time to be somewhere I'll press it over and over for like an hour. I might as well just set my alarm for later and sleep properly for that hour!

*sorry for the double post! don't know what's up with it today...

I always set the alarm a little earily so I an take my time getting up. I don't really need the snooze, but I use it just in case.

I never hit the snooze button. Since I am in a college dorm and have a roommate, I feel bad letting my alarm go off more than once. Of course, she doesn't feel the same, and lets her alarm go off 5 or 6 times each morning. It's kind of annoying. Lol.

i once kept pressing that button 10 times haha and every snooze goes for 5 minutes

I snooze for at least an hour usually. I'm terrible at getting out of bed.

I have never used the snooze button in my 24 years of life. It just seems so torture-like.

i heart: we must have read the same article. I do the same thing (tripping over my shoes along the way)

I don't snooze because I find I always end up oversleeping if I do. Like, I'll hit the snooze button, but the next time the alarm goes off I'll sleep through it! Hahah

At least three time, but now I know I'm wasting my time. Ha. Thanks Fit.

I hit the snooze button in my sleep! It's so bad. I set the alarm for 10-15 min earlier than I have to wake up.

My alarm is across my room yet I hit snooze at least once, if not 3 times a day. I find it feels like i got more sleep when i can wake up and go back to sleep for another 10minutes then do it again. I dunno why but it feels better.

Beram1220, I do exactly the same!

Also, I hate it when my alarms sets off in the middle of a dream. I push the snooze-button and tell myself to "finish the dream" in the next 5 minutes. Although most of the time I'v already forgotten what the dream was about by the time I want to finish it...

I got a sunrise alarm clock about a month ago. I love it; it now feels perfectly natural to wake up during the pre-dawn hours. And I feel rested when I wake up because the clock doesn't jerk me out of deep sleep. With my old alarm clock, I always felt like I was being jolted awake & I always hit the snooze button at least twice, even though it went off at the same time every day. I'm not even sure my new alarm clock has a snooze button.

at least twice - the first one is to wake me up out of my deep sleep, the second is roll around in the bed and wish I didn't have to get up

Honestly, I'm one of those weird people who just get up when their alarm goes off the first time...I've never ever used the snooze button!

i dont use an alarm clock. you do NOT want to be near me when i've had to wake up to an alarm clock... it isn't pleasant.

My alarm is set for 7:30 ... and I always snooze it 3 times until the 7:45 alarm ... because that is really when I get up. It takes me like 15 minutes to get myself together before I get up and become a whirlwind around my apt and out the door. It's like my game plan time between the snoozing and me actually getting up.

a LOT. I use my phone as my alarm clock now and if you press snooze 4 times it just turns off...and i always seem to get to that point. i tried putting it in the other room but i will still do it! going to bed earlier, everything...i am just worthless before about 7:45. I am really trying to break the habit!

i never hit the snooze. when i wake up, i am UP. and i usually wake up before the alarm.

At least once, otherwise I feel deprived! I don't always go back to sleep though, I usually use that time to try and figure out what I'm going to wear!

We don't even have a snooze button on our alarm clock, but at the moment I'm in the habit of resetting the alarm to go off 10 min after the initial blast. (I only do it once though.)

It's a bit of a waste of time actually - the clock is 10 min fast anyway (to help me avoid being late to work), so I guess I should just set it to the right time! But mentally it makes me feel like I've stolen a bonus little nap, and I kind of like that. ;P

I am the queen of snooze.... 3-4 times, even for my VERY loud alarm. I'm such a deep sleeper that I frequently turn off the alarm without even realizing it... and usually wake up late.

Very nice site!

When I have to get up for school, I set my alarm for 6:00 AM, and get up at 6:00 AM. When I have to get up for nothing, I set my alarm for 9:00AM, press snooze till 10:00AM, at which point it shuts off, and sleep in till 12.

I don't even hit the snooze. i just keep sleeping even though i hear the alarm clock several times. so the alarm clocks ring for ages. i have three alarms. and usually it takes me about about an hour of the three of them ringing every 5 mins to wake up any suggestion?