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The Snooze Button Effect
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Just came across this. I normally use a minimum of 2 alarms. If I have something really important I use 3 or 4 and have one or two people call and talk to me. I stress for them NOT to stop talking to me until they are SURE I'm awake. I have answered the phone many times in my sleep and only believe people because many different people have claimed to have spoken to me. I have even text messaged in my sleep when the phone was on the pillow next to me to help me wake up. Luckily it was only to my brother had text me to ask if I was up. I texted back “Sux”. So he figured I was up and called and spoke to me. He actually thought I was lying that I was sleeping because I had just text him.
Anyway, I have many days hit snooze for an hour or more. In fact, once a month or two I have actually hit snooze on BOTH alarms for something like 5 hours straight. Doesn't really make sense of course since I'm not really sleeping I guess.
It might seem like I just sleep a lot but really I'm always sleep deprived. I've had horrible insomnia as far back as 20 years. When I finally get to sleep I sometimes only have 1.5 hours of sleep before work and I just can't drag myself out of bed! Not sure what to do about all this. I'm always late for work and I hate that!!
I would try the rehearsal technique. An hour before you go to bed, set the alarm to go on in 5 minutes. Pretend to sleep. Once the alarm goes on, immediately jump out of your bed and go into the bathroom to wash your face, then repeat. Train yourself to get in the bathroom and wash your face every time the alarm goes on. You will probably want to change the sound of your alarm since it sounds like you are in the habit of pushing the snooze button when you hear it. The goal is to get in a habit of doing something that will ensure that you stay awake so developing the habit of getting yourself into the bathroom and washing your face will help.
Although your mind can give you “good” reasons why you should stay in bed, it's hard for it to control your body when you are performing an action out of habit. You have the habit of responding to the sound of the alarm with pushing the snooze button. Train yourself to respond by washing your face. It will take some practice and some discipline at first but once it becomes a habit, it'll be automatic. Good luck.
Two hours of nine-minute snoozes in a comfy bed is really great!
Only if you really have nothing else to do 🙂
I'm in 7th grade and have a terrible time getting out of bed. I use my regular alarm clock and my cell phone for the alarm usually. My alarm clock is besides my bed and phone underneath my pillow.
I plan now to put my alarm clock on the other side of my room, and have my phone on vibrate and as loud as it can go so I will get up on time and don't snooze. I can get up early on weekdays, but on weekends I sleep for 12 hours, sometimes even more. So there's no getting me up on weekends, only on weekdays. But that's certainly fine unless there's something going on that weekend.
I listen to music while I get ready and sometimes soak my face in cold water, and that helps.
Thanks for all the help guys!
Forcing yourself to get up at the same time each day, even on weekends, will not only make waking up easier, it will give you more energy as well once you go into a regular sleep routine. This is assuming that you get enough sleep each night.
I remember back when I was younger I would sleep 10-12 hours on weekends as well. I would only wake up tired so it just didn't make sense to sleep more than I needed especially when I wasn't getting more energy which is the point of sleeping.
thanks guys this is going to make a great english senior paper topic
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I built a shock alam out of an electric dog colar and an old Mickey mouse clock. the clock activates the transmitter and transmitter wirelessly tells the anklet I wear to shock me. it hurts. I have to hop across the room on one leg to turn off the transmitter to make the pain stop.
Wow, that sounds pretty crazy but creative. I'm sure there are people who need something like that to wake up on time each morning.
brilliant article! I thought I was alone in my snooze button problem. I've tried every trick I could think of.
LOL, you didn't remember to edit #1… your note to self… might want to fix!
That was intentional 🙂
This is ridiculous. I use the snooze button because I can't wake up, not because I think those extra nine minutes of sleep will be deliciously refreshing. People who sleep badly have trouble waking, and the snooze repeatedly going off can pull you out of it. Otherwise I would never wake up.
Most people use the alarm to wake up. Pressing the snooze button just delays what we intended to do. You'd eventually wake up even without it but just not at the time that you want.
I know this post is old, but I ran across a link, and I think the issue here is that you don't accurately understand the purpose of hitting the snooze (I base this on the fact that you don't touch upon it in your post that seeks to rationalize it). It's not because you have nothing better to do, or that you somehow think that another nine minutes of sleep will make all the difference in the way you feel for the rest of your day. It's not that complicated or cerebral — it's this:
Snuggling in a cozy bed feels really, really, really good.
That's it. People are simple animals. When the alarm goes off, we're woken from a deep sleep. We're drowsy and relaxed and warm and snuggly, and it is DELICIOUS. By hitting the snooze, we're saying, “yeah, I know, but…just not now, okay? Mmmm….” It's just that simple. You can't reason with it and you can't shame people out of it (“don't you have anything better to do?” — really, has insinuating that people who don't do just as you do are Losers with No Lives motivated anybody, ever?), for it is one of life's smallest, simplest, greatest pleasures. 🙂 Anybody, rich or poor, healthy or ill, young or old, has the power to unilaterally deny the demands of life and claim those precious minutes. I SAY UNTO YOU, NO! I WILL NOT GET UP OUT OF MY COZY BED RIGHT NOW! I AM KING/QUEEN OF THE WORLD!
Thanks for your reply. I don't fully agree with you but then again, that's what makes us all different. I use the alarm for one reason only, to wake myself up at a specific time. It's true that sleeping is one of life's pleasures but as I touched upon in the article, when you have a strong reason for getting up, such as a passion for your work, you will literally go to bed excited to get up the next morning. I hope you will one day have this experience because no bed, no matter how comfortable and warm, will be more pleasurable than waking up and starting your day doing what you love to do.
If I have a job I don't like, then yes, nothing would feel better than pressing that snooze button and snuggling in my cozy bed.
Also it depends on how much it's affecting your life. Snoozing on the weekend is always fun, but if you're always struggling to get to work in the morning, running late, not eating breakfast etc, then something is wrong.
It's like addiction – it's only bad if it's affecting your life negatively.
Yeah that's true.
Amen sister! My thoughts exactly. Now, wheres that snooze button…
This really helped due to the fact my alarm has 10 snooze messages, this really helped will begin implementing some of those things