Alarm-snoozing is something that many people do to start their day, but how does it affect your rest? Turns out, it can have actual impacts on your sleep and even your mood.Below, sleep doctors share their thoughts on hitting snooze and how it impacts your Z’s.It should come as no surprise that snoozing your alarm breaks up your sleep.
“Basically, making that half-hour that you were on snooze much less valuable for you and your body than just setting the alarm to begin with half an hour later, and sleeping until the alarm clock wakes you up once,” said Basner.where researchers told people, ‘OK, we are waking you up at 5am,’ and you could see that these people already started secreting hormones much earlier than the people who were told that they would wake up at 7 am,” said Basner.
“So that’s the segment of society that I would say, probably not great to be hitting the snooze bar, because the rest of the day you feel almost disoriented and groggy simply because you went back into a weird state when you should have just gotten up out of bed,” Fuller said.
“You’ve got to get out of bed and go turn it off, right?” Fuller said. “Once you’re vertical, then it’s also like: ‘OK, I’m up, whatever. Now I’m going to go do my thing.’”