Ask Mike: Ya snooze ya lose
Hey Guys,
I’m a guy who loves to sleep. Always have, always will. One of the greatest satisfactions I can get comes from clicking the snooze button. Being in that foggy half-awake-half-asleep state and knowing that I now have nine more minutes of peace and quiet… ah, it’s bliss. But, hold up–why are all snooze buttons programmed for nine minutes exactly? I put on a pot of coffee and went searching for answers.
Mental Floss explains that the nine minute rule stems from the old days when alarms were mechanical and not electric. The snooze button was added to alarms in the 1950s. By then the gears “had long been standardized.” The gears that controlled the snooze “had to mesh with the existing gear configuration.”
The Jewish World Review backs up the theory about meshing gears. Clock makers had to “choose between a gear that made the snooze period nine-plus minutes or 10-plus minutes.” A snooze lasting ten minutes exactly wasn’t possible. It’s likely that the clock makers decided that it’s more “responsible” to only give people nine extra minutes of sleep than eleven. I disagree, but nobody asked me.
Just for good measure, I looked around the Web for some further elaboration at The Straight Dope. Author Cecil Adams theorizes that clock manufacturers originally wanted the snooze to last ten minutes, but due to mechanical constraints, that just wasn’t possible. So, they settled for nine minutes, and the standard stuck.
What do you guys think about the snooze button? Do you use it religiously or do you get out bed right away? Gimme nine minutes and I’ll give you my answer…
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Set the alarm for earlier than you usually wake up, so if you want to get up at 6:30 set it for about 5:55 – 6:00. This way you can hit snooze for about a half hour before you actually have to get up.
mine isnt programmed for nine minutes
I, too, love my snooze button. I will purposely set my alarm for a certain time so that I can hit the button 3 times and still get up on time. I simply cannot hop out of bed with that first alarm!
Although I’ve had several alarm clocks with a 9-minute snooze, I currently have one with a programmable snooze. You can set it anywhere from 1 minute (what’s the point?) to 20 minutes (that’s a nap!). Look around and you can find one like this! My snooze, if you’re curious, is set to 10 minutes.
I LOVE the snooze button!
I swear I get at least 15+ sit ups every morning from sitting up and laying back down to hit that button lol. Pretty sure it annoys everyone else in the house, hearing my alarm clock go off that many times…but it’s so fun!
I love the snooze button. I use it religiously. I always use my cell phone alarm clock, Because I jam to the ringtone. Lol. I really like the idea of setting it for an earlier time, then hitting the snooze button. I will try that.
Guilty as charged! I, too, purposely set my alarm half an hour early so I can relish the snooze button a few times before arising. The trouble is, sometimes I become a little too indulgent and keep pressing it, and pressing it, and pressing it, and pressing it…
Ahh, nine more glorious minutes! I swear, just one more time…
I set my alarm on the loudest setting on the opposite side of the room, and 15 minutes before I need to actually be awake.
If I feel really tired that particular morning, I’ll go over and hit the snooze button.
It’s set for the whole 15 minutes.
Very interesting read. I didnt even know the snooze button only last 9 minutes. I use it so much, I snooze til 30 minutes lol
I love my snooze button. I actually love that feeling you mentioned about that half sleep moment and knowing you can go back and rest a little more. Sometimes I get in a whole dream in between snoozes.
I set my alarm for half an hour earlier than I want to get up so that I can hit the snooze about three times. I love the feeling of hitting the button and cuddling back under the covers…it’s the best part.
I use my cell phone as an alarm…I think it is currently set at 10 minutes.
Hmm…I’ve got a fancy digital clock, who’s snooze button works for exactly five minutes. I envy you and your nine minutes.
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I was always to disoriented in the morning to find my snooze button, so I usually just turned the alarm off and rolled over.
Well, for the most part I’m one of those individuals that when the alarm goes off — I get up. My sister is one of those individuals that hits the alarm about 5 times before she actually gets up. This is the most annoying thing because it wakes me up every – single time.
I do use the snooze button — but only on days that I’m very tired. The way I think about it, is why interrupt your sleep? Uninterrupted sleep is the most restful. So, if I place my alarm for 6:00 — but deep down I know I wont wake up until 6:45 (like my sister), then why not just set up the alarm for 6:45, and when it goes off — just get up? Why wake up every 10 min. between 6 & 6:45? Doesn’t make any sense to me & it never will.
Plus, for those times that I do hit the snooze button, I feel like I’m more tired the second time around — so again, what’s the point?
I don’t use the snooze button very often, but I do like it.
I usually when the alarm goes on, I turn it off and continue sleeping. Bad habit, I know. ;]
I’ll admit I’ve NEVER used the Snooze button. I get moody when I wake up when I don’t want to, so I only wake up when I wanna.
It helps having the alarm half-way across the room, haha.
I purposely put my alarm clock across the room so that I’d have to physically get up out of my bed to turn it off, thinking that I’d stay awake after having gotten up out of my warm comfy bed. NOT SO. Half the time I don’t even remember getting up and walking across the room to hit the snooze button.
Plan was a failutre, but I do love/hate the snooze button. Love it for the few extra minutes (12) and hate it because it means I have to wake up.
I guess I’m just one of those freaks who get up the first time the alarm goes off….
But, I dunno, once I wake up, I’m up for good. So, hitting the snooze button doesn’t do much for me. I’ll just lie there, wide-eyed, until I just pop out of bed.
But, one annoying thing about that, is that once up, I’m awake for the rest of the day. So, it doesn’t matter if I wake up at 3 or 4 am. I’m up. Might as well go downstairs and make a pot of coffee that’ll last all day.
I LOVE THE “SNOOZE” BUTTON!!!
I get up immediately…I can’t drive so I have no choice, but I’m a decent morning person anyway and I like to take my time getting ready in the morning, so it’s worth it…a few cups of coffee later…
I think the snooze button was a great invention because otherwise, I would have to keep re-setting my alarm! I didn’t used to use it as much as I do now, but I’m more tired ….so… lol consequently, I am a few minutes late for work a lot…but…it’s hard to just jump out of bed!!
I never use the snooze button-once I’m awake, that’s it. And I REALLY don’t understand setting the alarm early so you can hit snooze-it’s not like you get more sleep that way!
I am guilty of being a snooze buttoner! (or whatever =) I love the snooze button, it’s like oh just let me lay here and rest for a while before i get up! but if i fall asleep then i wake up the ten minutes later and feel like I got no sleep so i usually just stay awake (kind of =) and rest on my pillow until the alarm rings again. Or i’ll get up right away and go lie on my couch for a while.
That’s a pretty good suggestion for all those mobile phone developers out there, because when I press “snooze” on my SonyEricsson, it reminds me to get up exactly 9 1/2 minutes later, and I didn’t yet find the option to adjust the snooze period to my likings. Would be just convenient to set it, say, 5 minutes on work days and half an hour on weekends, or, even better, make it adjust to your personal schedule.
What you should never ever do, however, if you use some programmable device as an alarm clock: Never choose your favorite song as a wakeup ringtone. You’ll feel so cosy and comfortable that you’ll grab the phone, press “turn off alarm”, roll over and have another hour’s sleeps, just to learn that you’re frickin’ late.
I’m so glad that on German autobahns, there is mostly no speed limit, and driving in your pajamas is not really prohibited…
I used to hit the snooze button a lot, but recently, I have been moving my alarm around so I get up the first or second time it goes off. If I keep hitting the snooze button for half an hour or more, I become groggy when I get up. I am much more alert when I get up the first time.
I use the snooze!
That is, when I bother setting my clock. I still live at home and work night shifts so I can sleep all day some days.
Snooze button is my best friend. I give myself enough time in the morning to be allowed to hit it at most twice.
I think the “snooze” button is possibly one of the greatest inventions ever! Yeah, I’ll admit that I get this five/ten minute joy out of knowing that I have more time to sleep, even if it’s for a limited time, it still feels like I’m doing something that I’m not supposed to do and getting away with it.
I snooze either for half an hour to an hour before I really have to wake up, I set my alarm to give me that leeway of snoozing just so I can slowly get myself up in a gradual manner rather than getting up as soon as the alarm goes off.
Snooze alarms are set at nine minutes because it’s harder to calculate than an even number like ten. If you set your alarm for earlier than you want to get up, the first two ‘snoozes’ don’t matter. That third one that is getting close makes you do math, which wakes up your brain. Adding ten can be done in your sleep (pun intended).
The notion that clock/watch makers couldn’t make a gear that chimed on ten is preposterous. They have been doing this for 400 years. They can make gears that will chime anytime that you want, including odd intervals, like 12 minutes on the first strike, 16 minutes on the second strike, and ten minutes on the third. Open the back of a dime-store pocket watch from the 1930′s and see how intricate it is. They are works of art and engineering.
The average watchmaker could make a watch that tracked the day, date, phase of the moon, second, and hour. All by hand cutting the gears. Surely they could make one chime every ten minutes. Let’s not be so arrogant to think that our forefathers were less skilled than us; they were far more skilled.
My alarm in the morning is always set to wake me up at four a.m. I usually wake up at that exact time well…because I haven’t known exactly what the snooze button did…now that I know, I will use it everyday! Thank you!
well..my SE W580i was originally set to 9 mins of snooze. i dont know how to change it either way. i dont usually get up on the first alarm. i cant get out of bed on the first alarm even if i hear it ring…at times i dont even hit da snooze button!! dats how much i hate waking up!! anyone have any ideas on how i can wake up on the first alarm?? what things that can help me? my yahoo answers profile is “D1Chung вαиgѕ☮” without quotes
My cell phone alarm snooze is for 5 minutes, and my alarm clock snooze is for 10 minutes… i sometimes set both clocks, and alternate hitting their snooze buttons… my husband *hates* it! ;P
Nope. Never use it. Makes no sense to me whatsoever to wake up, then go back to sleep and wake up again. I sleep until it’s time to get up. I think waking up too early just makes you more tired.
I love the snooze! That alarm sound sets my nerves on edge, so being able to shut off that awful noise and get that wonderful nine (or twenty-seven) extra minutes of sleep is so…empowering. Haha. Plus, my alarm clock situation is perfect; my bed and my alarm are both on the floor, so I just roll over, poke a hand out of my warm blanket cocoon, and beat up my poor little snooze button so I can return to sweet, blissful sleep. Ahh, mornings…someday I will abolish them from my schedule….
I love the snooze button also. In fact, I have a new digital clock where you can change the length of the snooze time. I have mine set to 13 minutes. I usually only hit it once now. When it was the old fashioned 9 minutes, I almost always hit it twice.
I used to be the best sleeper in the whole world. Nobody loved to sleep like I did. I could go into a coma if I got a chance.
Sometimes I would worry that I was sick. Most times I would feel guilty because I wanted to sleep all the time.
Here is what I have figured out. I had soo many responsibilities and so much to do that it was an escape.
Now I am retired and I can actually sleep all day and all night if I want to………guess what. YUP!
The less you have hanging over your head the less sleep you need.
Hang in there. It will happen for you. (And try to get to bed a little earlier.)
Establish a sensible schedule for yourself – you will be more productive and much happier.
The last time I had an alarm clock was 10 years ago. It went off and I threw it across the room, smashing it against the wall. No more alarm clocks for Laura. I work nights, so I don’t need one anyway. Thank goodness.
My snooze button is programmed for only 4 minutes. I actually prefer it. There’s no way I can fall back asleep within 4 minutes. It’s the best clock I’ve ever had, actually!
I used to be really good and never used the snooze button. I’d put the alarm clock across the room, get up on time etc. And then cell phones came along. I now use my i phone alarm to wake up and yes the snooze is set to nine minutes. On other cell phones I have been able to change the amount of time for snooze but on my snazzy i phone they seem to have forgotten this feature so nine minutes it is. One thing it does have is the timer function so if I want to take a 30 minute or a 4 hour nap I can do that as well. I like waking up to my custom ringtones. The Beatles “Good Morning” with the rooster call is a favorite although the boyfriend hates it. Thanks for the blog and letting me know where that nine minutes came from.
I love having the luxury of not needing an alarm clock. I generally wake up two or three hours before I have to work regardless of when [usually 1pm is my "alarm"].
I don’t think I’ve seen the sunrise in well over two years. Ahhhh, THATS bliss.
I use my cell phone alarm clock!I don’t even open my eyes!i know where the button is!:))!30 min!5min to 5 min
My alarm clock actually does snooze in seven minute incraments. I threw me off a bit at first.
Same here, I hit the snooze button a couple times before I actually get up, the other day I hit it literally like 5 times before I decided to turn it off b/c I didn’t even have to get up early, I’m definitely not a morning person, stay up late, wake up late, that’s my philosophy, not good for a student though
I, too, am a snooze-user. I have slept through an entire morning, nine minutes at a time. I HATE being awakened by an alarm clock, it’s like being pulled out of quicksand, and hitting that snoozes helps to ease the pain and come out of it a little at a time.
The best days of my life are the ones when I can wake up naturally after I’ve had enough sleep, instead of being startled awake in the middle of deep sleep.
My husband is my snooze button. He’s a Lark, up at the crack of dawn. While he’s still rustling about quietly, I can rouse myself then settle down again for a snooze, but when he drops something or slams the door, its time to get up.
I hit the snooze button about 5 times. getting up an hour later than when the alarm went off. I love the snooze button and will always use it religiously
i have seven alarms in the morning on my phone starting from 6:00 to half seven and each has five snooze buttons three mins apart
im not very good at getting up in the morning as you may be able to tell but the snooze button annoys me so much that i have to get up because it keeps going off
=) i love the snooze button
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I set my alarm so that it is 30 minutes fast, I hope that the heater will kick on and warm up the place a bit before I have to crawl out of bed, I have no excuses for the summer other than after 35 years, it has become a habit.
Thanks for the research!
I always use the snooze button. But i end up pressing it so much in one morning i over sleep. Now i set my alarm 9 minutes early, so im awake when i need to be, if i hit it again i’m not majorley late.
I LOVE my snooze. cant do without it. retired now so dont usually have to get up at any particular time but if I do, I set the clock so that I can it the snooze about 3 times or 4 .It helps me get set for the day.
I cannot get up in the morning. I set my alarm for like an hour before I need to get up but will keep hitting my snooze for half an hour after I needed to be up by. Then I’m always i a rush.
Mines set for 5 minutes, just enough time for me to get back to sleep before having to get up. But then I don’t know the best time to set it. What gets me is on weekends I get up around 7 without an alarm.
i love the snooze button. i actually use my phone alarm clock AND my radio one. lol i do set it early but also the same time that i have to leave. see mine goes on for about an hour and i “wake up” an hour before i have to go. =] works for me (most of the time)
My snooze button gives me 10 full minutes.
Since I’m self-employed I don’t HAVE to get up at the same time every day and so, don’t usually use the alarm. On those rare days when I need to be up and out before 9 (or 10 when I am definitely out of bed although sometimes not totally awake — I’m more a night owl), that extra minute is sure welcome!
Interesting history, thanks. The snooze button for my digital clock is for 8 minutes. Maybe because twice that is 16 min, which is close to 15 min., which of course is not divisible by 2?
I use it all the time, too.
Most people in the U.S. don’t get enough sleep. That decreases our life expectancy, decreases our immune system, makes us as dangerous drivers as someone who is drunk, makes us more likely to get cancer, may increase our risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease, changes our metabolism so it’s easier to put on weight, decreases our work productivity, etc.
My husband and i used to hit the snooze 2 – 3 times when we worked. It really did fool our minds to think we were getting more sleep, but reality we were getting less. Because we set the alarm back too.
What would I do without my snooze button? I’d throw my alarm clock across the room in my sleep. The thing that I don’t understand is, how can 9 minutes go by in what surely seems like thirty seconds? Sometimes the alarm goes off again so soon that it’s surreal.
Last year, I was a snooze button junkie. There was nothing more satisfying than laughing in 6:00 am’s face by pushing-actually, more so pounding the snooze button. (Disorientation causes me a few troubles finding that little button of 9-minute bliss). Nowadays, I have become a morning person, and I have no idea how, or where, it came from. I’m up at the first alarm. I haven’t used the snooze button in over 4 months. O:
personally i have never used the snooze button. i would hate to wake up click the snooze button wake up turn the button again, etc. I wouldnt be able to fall asleep after i hear the alarm go off after the 1st time. Also, my snooze can be put at 10 min, 30, 45, 60, and 90 minutes!!!! (who would snooze their alarm for 90 minutes??!)
My current Sony alarm clock has snooze set for 10 minute. My previous Panasonic alarm clock was set for 7 minute. I also set my alarm for earlier time than I want to wake up so I can go back to bed, even though you’re supposed to get up as soon as you wake up.
I don’t even use an alarm clock And I have missed out on a lot OH Well LOl
Getting up in the morning has long been a challenge of mine, and I too have over used my ‘snooze alarm’ until I came up with this simple solution…I moved my clock radio across the room
and turned up the volume. Once I was forced to get up then I was up for good !!
I use my iPod as my alarm. I always set it 15 minutes early incase the first song or two is a slow melodic one. By the third, the playlist has run out os suave music, and the headbanging instinct kicks in. I roll off the bed and onto the floor (futon) and I wait for the blood to flow to my limbs… Once the pain kicks in from the fall, I’m up.
if I had a snooze I’d use it!! I have a really small one without a snooze so im pretty bummed!! my old one broke.. though the alarm on this clock wakes me with palpitations!! so I use mother instead … who also doesn’t have a snooze button xD force of habit, I usually wake before the alarm anyway (because it frightens me so much!!) XD and always enjoy knowing I have a little time left to snuggle my teddy and my duvet xD xx
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I don’t like the snooze button. Once I wake up, I have an internal alarm that does not let me sleep too much more anyway. In fact I cannot really sleep at all-I’ll just lay there and get up in a while without the unpleasant experience of being jarred again and again-like a series of unexpected static shocks-that is what a snooze seems like to me.
I use my cell phone so i can use a certain song that gradually wakes me. More than once the song was in my morning dreams. It’s set for 5 minutes. And i hit it 3 times unless the kids are alarm that morning.
I can relate to it all. I do think it is a bad idea to to set my alarm early, but if I don’t I will be fired from my job instead of beining 2-6 minutes late each and every day. I am lucky to have a boss that laughs at me for being late everyday instead of yelling at me. My alarm is set for 9 minutes as well and sometimes I think that is too long, others times it’s just not long enough. ( : (
My isn’t programmed for nine minutes, mine is five mins.
HaHa…I just knew once I finally scrolled all the way to the end..that I would be making my comment following a person who doesn’t “USE” the “SNOOZE”!! Well I do more than my fair share of using it….always have & probably always will. Whats funny is that “I DO” & “WOULD DO” all that Kyle just mentioned above me…LMAO!! I hit my snooze “AT LEAST” 1/2 Dozen Times (& Kyle I Have NO Problems Getting Back 2 Sleep)..lol..I think that comes a long with the territory…with those who do choose to keep “hitting it…& hitting it…& hitting it & hitting it” that we can & do fall back to sleep….b/c what would be the point really if we couldn’t do that..LMAO…(I am getting such a laugh out of this topic)!! Oh…I would love to have a 90 min “SNOOZE”…(which Kyle again seems to have) that 9 mins kills me every time..ITS NEVER LONG ENOUGH!!
I would originaly set my alarm clock across the room. This didn’t work, I would simply get up and shut it off then go back to bed. Now I have my iPod as an alarm clock that asks me math questions. The problem with that is even if you get it wrong theres only two options. A lucky half asleep guess can happen.
I HATE snooze buttons and agree with the guy who said, why interrupt good sleep, why not just set your alarm for the time you know you HAVE to get up? I have threatened death to my other half for doing the “hit the snooze button repeatedly” thing, and eventually threw him and his alarm out of my room. I also put my hands around his throat for leaving his alarm on weekends. He now sets it on 1 and puts in under his pillow if he has to get up, or he would be a single man again, or possibly not need one at all.
That said, I don’t use it, but I do set my alarm far enough ahead I can swallow my caffeine tabs and let them kick me out of bed in 20 minutes, LOL.
It is programmed for nine minutes because that gives you an extra minute to hear the alarm an curse in bed for a few more seconds then jump out of bed and turn off the alarm and get out the door all in about a minutes time so when you actually get out of the house you will be on time and every single minute counts. Another one of my guess is because of the saying about sleeping on cloud 9. So 9 minutes it is. Why nine because it rhymes with fine and divine not ten or eight.
Because of the saying of sleeping on cloud nine so you get 9 minutes. I can’t believe nobody has made mention of that. You see ten or eight doesn’t rhyme with fine or divine but nine does.
When I have to be on time, I just get up right then, and go.
When I’m really tired, the alarm can goes as loud as it can be, I won’t budge a bit. I won’t press snooze at all. What alarm? Why there’s an alarm sound in my dream?
I love to set my alarm early just so that I can be in that special place between wake and sleep. I relish in my snooze button, it’s the best feeling. I always wondered why 9 minutes, 10 is an even number and better, it makes more sense. But 9 means I can hit it more.
Love the snooze. I hit it multiple times on any given day : )
Mine is 8 minutes.
Actually, my alarm clock has a snooze feature that goes in 10 minute increments up to 1 hour…….lovely
You click it once for 10 minutes and 2x for 20 minutes and so on up to the 60 minutes. It’s spoiled my some, but I like it.
I used to set my alarm at 5:30 and hit the snooze button till 6am. Then I read that when you hit the snooze button and fall back asleep, the sleep you get is of pretty bad quality, meaning that when you do eventually get up you actually feel more tired than you would if you’d gotten up immediately. And it’s true, tried and tested.
To be honest, I’ve never even heard about the nine-minute-rythm. One of my alarm clock does 5, the other one 10 minutes…
Never used the snooze button, but then again I’m not a coffee addict like everyone else. Basically you’ve trained your body for it now, which was a bad move. Why not get real sleep as long as you can then get up than get pseudo sleep for a half hour, makes no sense and though you may think if feels good, your body doesn’t appreciate it…
Btw, some Cambridge Soundworks clock radios let you set snooze time, I’ve heard the iphone does too but haven’t tried it since i think snooze is a stupid feature.
I could never use the snooze button. Why? Because once I hit the thing then I KNOW that in 9 minutes the alarm is going to be screaming at me again. How can you possibly get any sort of rest when you know in the back of your mind that in a short 9 minutes you will be rudely awakened again? Not me.
I use the alarm on my Nokia phone where the snooze is only 5 minutes – however sometimes the five minutes of snooze can feel so long it’s crazy…
Also, what’s funny is that the phone let’s you keep hitting the snooze button for 30 minutes, and when you try hitting snooze on the 30th minute it doesn’t work and you have to click stop to stop the alarm, so basically you’re forced to either wake up, or sleep in and miss whatever it is you had to go to. And the latter has happened to me many an occasion. ><
i hate that freaken thing, once i hear it i can’t go back to sleep! what really sux is that i have to hear three alarm clocks and like three snoozes… my bf has two alarm clocks that I have to hit because he’s a heavy sleeper and won’t wake up! and then there’s mine… i just hate them! i hate waking up in the mornings
I have never in my entire life used a snooze button. Didn’t even know they were 9 minutes until I read this blog!
) And PLEASE don’t think that makes me a morning person – I DESPISE morning and won’t even use the ‘G’ word (good) in front of morning because I don’t think such a thing exists as a ‘g’ morning! BUT I do manage to get to work early every single day. I have been late 3x in 10 years – I sleep to between 10am and noon on my days off.
Wow. I am really glad to know that I am not alone in this. Pressing the snooze button, to me, is one of the greatest of treasures. I LOVE YOU SNOOZE BUTTON!!
I like hitting the snooze button, and it has never caused a “you snooze you lose” situation for me. I think that must apply to people who are not going to get up and do what they are supposed to even without a snooze button. I like living alone too, so I can hit my snooze button whenever I want to and not have to worry about bugging anyone else. That applies to all aspects of my life. Living alone is great!
i’m sure when you work for yahoo! you get to hit the snooze as much as you want… must be nice
I used to have an alarm clock with a “choose your snooze” feature. You could program the snooze button for as little as one minute and as long as a half an hour.
I would rather not have interrupted sleep, but I do understand the feeling of “i can have a few extra minutes, and maybe then I will be wide awake”
Like this morning for instance, It was a sunday and I just kept waking up looking at my clock and saying “not just yet”. It’s a great feeling to know that you can just keep settling back into your mattress and hide under the inches of soft covers.
I get into the habit of just shutting off my alarm. Even though I don’t have enough time to get ready even if I do just pop out of bed. I set my alarm to 5:27, so I can like another person said, gradually get out of bed so it’s not that POP out of bed feeling.
What I don’t understand is setting the alarm 30 minutes or even a half hour before you really want to get up, just so you can get that feeling. I would rather hit the snooze once or twice and be done with it and move on with my day, because the logic is, the more i hit the snooze button, the worse my hair will look that day.
i meant 30 minutes or even an hour. lol because 30 minutes or even a half hour is the same thing. woops.
hello Mike,
i love to sleep,too,and i always will…just because when i awake — i am very hyperactive and efficient,so there’s no snooze or any other alarm for me,i am trying to programm myself…to wake up …to be on time,it’s risky at times,but i can do this!
More … — when i have some special plans –my sleepy time is shorter(generally),in any case — our good night sleep and not just….night is the best gift we have(for granted) from the nature.
I love to set my alarm for earlier than I need, then hit snooze a couple times, because if for some reason i slept well and i am wide awake that early i can get right up but if I am tired I can pretend to sleep in with out being late for class. But since I live in a dorm now with my roomrate I cant do that anymore
Well, the standard has actually been lost – in a way. I used to have an electric alarm clock and it’s snooze button lasted 10 minutes (not nine). That alarm clock broke though and I no longer have it. Now I use my cell phone for an alarm clock, and it’s snooze button only last for five minutes (unfortunately).
I hate waking up to an alarm clock the first time, I don’t like a snooze alarm to be yelling back at me every 9 minutes either. I used to use the snooze, but since I really hate to “jump” everytime it went off…I couldn’t relax for the 9 minutes during the snooze cycle, and sometimes I’d turn the alarm off completely instead…which made me late for work. I hate getting up in the morning, a morning person I am not. I set the alarm 15 minutes later to avoid using the snooze.
usually i love snoozing, and i occasionally press it twice. i use my phone so snooze is 5 minutes. but the thing is, sometimes i press it so many times, that it wont ring again. then im late for school. i thinnk that if you put your alarm on the other side of your room, and you have to get up to turn it off, most likely, you wont go back to bed so you wont be late. hope i helped!!! love disp, love disp(:
ahhh! the snooze button can be my best friend and worst enemy.
but the quicker i get up the less time i spend whining at myself for having to get up in the first place :p
last year i would hit the snooze button 6+ times in one morning but i quickly realized that it only encourages me to stay in bed til the last minute and i have to rush to get ready.
now i make sure to get up on that 1st ring. though i am guilty to hitting it once.
My mom has started a buissness for people that have a hard time getting up, you can check out her site at http://www.kickstartpro.com
Nah, I never use the sleep button. I just doze a little. For some reason, I never doze for more that five minutes or so, so I’m able to get up in time as long as I don’t completely fall back asleep.
Mine is set to 5 minutes…and I don’t think I can change it. But it’s my cell alarm clock, and my real one is 9 mins. lol.
Mine is 7 minutes….
Yep, i’m a snoozer. I use my cell as an alarm and have it set about 45 minutes before i need to get up. i start out at 10 minute snoozes for about half of it and then go to 5 minute snoozes for the second half. (my phone gives me the option for a 5, 10, or 30 minute snooze every time I hit it.) It is absolutely impossible for me to jump out of bed the moment I wake up. i need some coaxing every 5-10 minutes for 45 minutes =) Oh, and I love the feeling of knowing I get to fall asleep again for a few minutes. I feel like my whole bed gets 10X more comfortable, soft, and warm. This is actually kind of a bad thing, because then i never want to get out of bed!
i love the snooze button more than anyone! I ve always hit that button until my new boyfreind, he hates it.
ehh my mom wakes me up but loving to sleep is LAZY
lazy people go get a hobbie jk
LOL I jump out of bed immediately when my cellphone alarm rings at six… but my snooze button only gives me five minutes!
Luckily, on my alarm clock, you can pick how long you want the snooze to last, which is great.
Mine’s originally set to 9 minutes, but I’ve changed it to 10 because I like things even and rounded, because I’m just like that. Lol. But I usually don’t hit the snooze, because it makes me feel like I have to rush.
I see no point in the snooze button since I usually sleep through the alarm anyway. If anything, I’ll usually end up dismissing the alarm to bypass the alarm and get sleep. I guess I can’t really trick myself like that. It’s more of a psychological battle to me. Once my adrenaline gets pumping, that’ll knock the sleep out of me anyway. Usually the fear of missing 1st period is enough to get me up after a few failed snoozes.
my snooze is 9 minutes too…I never knew that old fashioned mechanical alarm clocks had a snooze feature! i have a few antique alarm clocks and none of them have snooze. Good to know!
I am addicted to the snooze button… It just is not possible for me to get up… The feeling of going back to sleep… like there is an actual feeling… thts prolly why i hit it so much…
BTW tht was pretty interesting
I actually hate the snooze button. I hate waking up early in the morning its so annoying to hear the alarm and that nine minutes is NEVER enough, it usuall feels like a second. I usually press snooze over and over until I turn off the alarm….so the snooze button is abuse, and to me it is pretty useless……..
Haha this is funny. I set my alarm for five and end up getting up at around 6:30 to 7. Wow.
Ahhh, sleep. Its great isn’t it. Nine minutes you say? That actually makes sense, and explains a lot. I had always assumed that it was 10 mins – but the lovely dozy/snoozing sleep prevents me from checking.
I wish it were bed time ring now…
I always hit my snooze button. Its so convenient that its the biggest button, all i do is bang on the top of my alarm clock with my fist and I fall right back asleep, lol. There have been times believe it or not that I have hit the snooze over and over again and I haven’t been concious of it. I will wake up an hour later wondering why my alarm went off late, lmao!!!
i have my alarm set and random times, such as 7:12, then i can savour every minute in bed, also i have the alarm on the other side of the room so i have to get out of bed to shut it up :L
YAY FOR SLEEP!!! Yay for men who like to sleep! I’m a sleeper, I love naps, but my hubby doesn’t so I have to nap alone. Thats just how he is and thats fine but its nice to hear about men who enjoy sleep
I never use the snooze button. If I want more sleep the sleepy me finally gave up on snooze and just started turning it off. (My snooze is ten minutes, not nine.)
I use my mental alarm clock to wake up have for a long time. I just tell myself what time I want to get up and I wake up at that time, Its scary how accurate I can get it.
i cant hit the snooze, my hubby has the alarm set to the computer hooked up to the surround sound, 5 speakers, vol.. 55. tone sounds like someone is breaking into our house.
its sooo loud but after years of never waking up on time i can say it feels good to get up early enough to make the extra cup of coffee
Snooze buttons! YAY. Better invention than sliced bread.
Mines actually programmed for 7 minutes rather than 9 and I’m really surprised this question even came up because I was wondering why it just didn’t go for ten minutes.
Did you know that Benjamin Franklin only slept about 3 hours a night ?
That’s how he got stuff done…He just didn’t ‘need’ the standard 8 hours…
I sleep about 5 hours and then I need to get up and go…Sometimes I try to sleep in but it just doesn’t work…I end up just staring at the ceiling…
I have an uncle that told me one time (he’s a Vietnam war veteran) that told me one time that he needs a bare minimum of 11 hours sleep…Can you even imagine ? Because I sure can’t…
I set the alarm but I’m usually awake waaaaay before the alarm goes off…So NO, I don’t even use the snooze button…Luci..
it’s my guilty pleasure. i love the snooze button. but my cellphone lets me snooze again after the snooze alarm. so i end up getting out of bed 27 minutes after i should have. =P
Tweek your clock, set it 30 minutes from the real time and try to forget that you have that extra time. works for me…
Snooze is a natural high.
In advanced tobacco stores you can even buy snooze
dust.
Snooze removes the dead viruses that otherwise irritate the path of breath.
Did you ever see anybody to have cancer in the nose?
Only those probably who cant snooze.
Hows the bent life Mike??
I hate mornings. I love sleep. I have 4 alarms set, they all go off about 5 minutes apart. I hit snooze on all of them!!!
I don’t use an alarm clock, my internal clock works great, if I have to get up earlier than I usually do I just tell my self before I go to bed and I’ll check the time. True story. I get up about 7-10 minutes before the time i need to be up. I’m a morning person so I like waking up!
I get up at 6:20 am on sundays, and this morning i waked up like 2 times!
Thanks for the Kick Start Pro link, Shannon. I just signed up today. I’ll let you know how it goes.