Snoozing, you know the feeling. Your alarm goes off, but you're just getting so comfortable. That snooze button is suddenly very tempting. However, it is better not to do it!
According to W. Christopher Winter, director of Charlottesville Neurology and Sleep Medicine, regularly delaying the moment you wake up can worsen your sleep quality. For example, if you set your alarm for 6:30 every morning but keep snoozing until 7:00, you regularly delay waking up three times. As a result, you end your night's rest with three disrupted short sleep sessions.
Why is this so bad?
When you hit the snooze button, you cause yourself to partially wake from deep sleep. Your body prefers to return to a moment of ultimate rest. So, if you then hit the snooze button again, you fall deeper and deeper into sleep, while you actually need to get up.
Snoozing not only has a negative effect on your sleep quality, but also on your memory. A 2012 study by Brigham and Women's Hospital showed that repeatedly falling back into short, deep sleep has a negative effect on your memory. Additionally, snoozing makes it increasingly difficult to actually get up.
Assignment “How to stop snoozing”
Are you a real full-time snoozer? Then start by stopping snoozing every other day. Gradually extend this. You will notice that you wake up feeling much fresher when you get up immediately after the alarm goes off. If you still wake up tired (for no reason, e.g., if you have young kids who keep you awake at night), try going to bed an hour earlier.
Source: Men's Health
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