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Sleeping and Hitting the Snooze Button

How Many Times Do You Hit the Snooze Button?

July 20, 2010

I'm one of those people who could sleep nine hours a night and still be tired in the morning — I just love to sleep! When my alarm goes off, I'm so groggy that I can't even think about waking up, so I usually set it early so I can snooze a couple times and catch an extra 20 minutes of shut-eye. What about you?

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19 Comments

chequettex 2 years 11 weeks

SuperGigi - You Understand! Yes, I hit the snooze button, and I hit it a lot because I just like to keep dreaming the dream I was in, or start thinking about the day ahead, but stay in the warmth of my bed. I need to get one of those alarms where I can softly play a song like that to start waking up. I can only hop right out of bed if the sun is coming up, and I have to get up to get ready for work at 5:30AM, so most of the year I hit snooze several times before I can actually drag myself out of bed. My husband doesn't like the constant alarms (I have to set 2, just in case) and I've tried enlisting him to help me out by nudging me or straight out telling me to get out of bed, but he's not mean enough! Sometimes he just snuggles me instead.

Tonii2010 2 years 43 weeks

I am morning person when I know that I have some thing to do early in the morning, but I am not one when I do not have to do that day. I hit my alarm only once to turn it off so I can get up when I am get ready

2 years 43 weeks

I selected "one" but I've come up with a new system of waking up that is more pleasant for me. I have an alarm clock with dual alarms, so I set one for a half hour before I want to get up. When the first alarm goes off, it plays music fairly quietly ... sometimes it wakes me up slowly, and sometimes doesn't wake me up at all. If it wakes me up, I typically get up and have a glass of water, and then get back in bed and doze until my "real" alarm goes off. I found that it isn't usually the fact that I'm tired that used to make me hit snooze, it was just that I really enjoyed spending some time half-awake in bed in the morning, lazily thinking about the day to come and relishing the comfyness of my bed and snuggling with the cats. It feels wonderful and indulgent to give myself that time, and when I finally do get up for real, I feel a lot more positive and energetic. On the rare morning I have to get up insanely early (due to travel or a virtual meeting with coworkers in another time zone), I do give myself a time buffer to hit snooze once. I've gotten really into my regular bedtime routine, but I can't usually fall asleep any earlier than I'm used to.

amber512 2 years 43 weeks

Once the annoying beeping starts I have to wake up. I just can't fall back asleep once something has woken me up, no matter how little sleep I have gotten.

missu2 2 years 43 weeks

I used to hit it 3 or 4 times. But then I started getting to work late. So I set the alarm earlier and then I could hit it 3 times and still be on time, lol. But I find I hit the snooze button more in the winter and more if I hate what is going on at work, which was very often.

Spectra 2 years 43 weeks

I hate the snooze button. What is the point?? 10 minutes of "sleep" is not beneficial at all. You're definitely better off just setting your alarm for the time you want to get up and getting that much more sleep.

bethinabox 2 years 43 weeks

I think I've hit the snooze button once in the past three years... I'd rather just get right up. One thing I don't understand is my roommate this past school year--she would set her alarm, and not hit the snooze button or turn it off. She'd just let it go off. SO ANNOYING. How could she stand that?!

bluebellknoll 2 years 43 weeks

I never hit the snooze button. My hubby is a slow riser though and he sets his alarm on his watch. The first time it goes off he hits the snooze, jumps out of bed and goes to the couch so I won't be bothered by it. Then he will hit it 2-3 times more.

2 years 43 weeks

My biggest pet peeve is people who hit snooze! Its so annoying! (when you are their roommate at least). I always get up right when it goes off because I set it for the latest possible time I need to wake up. When you "snooze" you are wasting good "real" sleep time in my opinion. Why not just set the alarm later and get the benefit of actually sleeping soundly for that time?

2muchtv 2 years 43 weeks

I have an old clock, and I have no idea how to use the snooze button. I just turn it off, and have my cell act as a second alarm 5 minutes later, but it's across the room.

Beaner 2 years 43 weeks

I'm all about the snooze button. In college I'd snooze at least 40 minutes. I need that much time to slowly wake up. I don't get how people just rise out of bed the second their alarm goes off the first time. I'm way too out of it.

stellaRuby 2 years 43 weeks

Never hit the snooze. I set my alarm for the latest possible time and get up on the first ring. I have a pretty good internal clock, so I am usually awake a few mins. before the alarm goes off.

onlysourcherry 2 years 43 weeks

My snooze goes off every two minutes... so i hit it about four times but am only in bed about 8-10 extra minutes. It's so much better, a snooze that would make me ten minutes late could make me seriously late! And yes, my boyfriend hates it. haha.

2 years 43 weeks

I don't understand snooze buttons. Why not just set your alarm for the time you want/need to get up and have that much more uninterrupted sleep? If you set your alarm for 7.00 but hit it until 7.30, that's 30 broken minutes. If you set it for 7.30, that's 30 good minutes.

Marshmelly411 2 years 43 weeks

Wow I'm surprised so many get right up without a snooze button! I wish I had that kind of motivation but I definitely don't. Technically my alarm goes off every 7 minutes (not 10), so I chose the "three times"/half hour option even though I technically hit it four times :)

michlny 2 years 43 weeks

Haven't used an alarm clock in ages! I rise naturally..... Never oversleep... Weird?

skigurl 2 years 43 weeks

1-3 times per morning. My boyfriend gets right up though, no matter the time...I find that insane.

nikkisoda 2 years 43 weeks

I think it's easier to get up to your alarm if you pep talk yourself before you go to bed. Instead of being like, "Ah man I have to get up so early. Blah, blah, blah." Just be like, "Alright, I'm getting up at so and so time." You tend to wake up a little more refreshed. Positive thoughts people!

ticamorena 2 years 43 weeks

this is my biggest summer gripe - it's still light when i go to bed at 10.30, i wake up as soon as the sun rises, say, 5:30 am, then have trouble getting back to sleep and by the time i do, my alarm is ringing at 7am, whereupon I press snooze until 7:15ish...i am definitely a morning person, but end up crashing at around 2-3pm because of lack of sleep

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