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I didn't used to know people used snooze at all - it always seems so futile - you have two options (at least in my mind);

alarm @ 8:00 --> get up at 8:00

alarm @ 7:45 + snooze --> painfully lose 15 minutes of good quality sleep and hate every second of it.

Why is that even a thing?

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The sleep you get while you're "snoozing" is sleep that you're awake enough to enjoy. At least for me, anyway.

A paradox well-stated.

Yeah. It's almost like a drug.

So true. I didn't even know why I used snooze until now. I actually password-protected my tablet with a very long password so I wouldn't use snooze, but I still did; I had to get to it!

Hell yes. This is where all my ideas and inspiration come from. Its a place where lucidity is common. I actually keep a notepad and pen next to me in case so I don't forget it if its interesting when or wake up.

Better than anything mind bending and more healthy too.

Such a great comment. You've improved my life.

Perhaps you're not like this, but I am: It's the best feeling in the world to go back to sleep. When I'm asleep I'm just sleeping; when I hit snooze, though, I get 30 seconds of "awwww yeeahhhhhhhhhhhh..."

I don't use an alarm anymore because my sleep is so consistent and I don't have a morning role call, but when I did, it was awesome to be able to settle back in.

I have gotten to the point where the alarm going off and me hitting snooze actually integrates itself into my dreams such that I don't even realize I'm doing it until after I wake up.

Sleepy, waking-up me is not rational and wants to go back to sleep. Alarm's purpose is to wake up enough of rational me to make this happen. Optimally more-rested me would be more rational. Realistically, longer period of time dealing with annoying noise wakes me up more.

Going to see if I can get myself off the snooze cycle starting tonight.

This is why I use a radio alarm clock. I don't turn it off, because it isn't annoying, but it is harder to go back to sleep when there are human voices my brain starts paying attention to.

One trick I found with this is that some sort of "talk" radio, i.e. NPR, is a lot better than music. With music, I can sort of "background task" it, while processing talking requires some conscious effort.

Here's a bad idea: set your alarm clock to the classical music station.

I did this for a while, but I found out that listening to the radio in bed was pleasant, and I really wasn't incentivised to get up.

i set my alarm to snooze for 30 to 45 minutes, well really two 5 minute alarms 30 to 45 minutes apart. Without a first alarm I will sleep through the actual alarm every time.

Same here, I don't think I've ever actually used snooze.

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