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Hitting The Snooze Button On Your Alarm Doesn
Hitting The Snooze Button On Your Alarm Doesn
Hitting the snooze button when your alarm goes off may not leave you in
a sleepier state than if you just got up straight away.
Some say that snoozing your alarm makes you feel less awake during
the day, but new research suggests that isn’t the case
During the Eirst night, the participants were free to go to bed at the same
time as they normally would and set their alarm for the normal time they
get up, without snoozing.
Around a week later, they returned to the lab, where they set their alarm
half an hour before getting up and hit snooze every 9 to 10 minutes.
The researchers found that cortisol levels were slightly higher after
snoozing, but there were no differences in sleepiness, mood or cognitive
performance between snoozing or waking immediately.
Overall, the participants slept on average six minutes less when snoozing
and showed signs of poorer sleep quality during the last half hour of their
sleep, measured by monitoring their brain waves. But there were no
substantial differences in sleep quality across the two nights as a whole.