Comments on: Why Does The Snooze Button Give You Only 9 More Minutes of Sleep?

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:38:54 +0000

I have my clock set 20ish minutes fast as well. When I’m fully awake I remember that it’s fast and do the quick math. When I’m half asleep, I don’t always remember it’s ahead and “scare” myself into waking up :)

By: Fran

Fran — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:16:20 +0000

I used to set my clock 20 minutes ahead, then set the alarm 25 minutes before I needed to get up (based on the wrong clock setting) allowing me to hit the snooze button 5 times before I had to get up. I finally decided that much morning math (trying to remember how many times I’d hit the snooze button) was tiring me out more than just sleeping.

By: Jeff K.

Jeff K. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:45:19 +0000

I used my TV’s “turn on at this time” feature as an alarm clock freshman year of college. My roommate reports/ed that on T/Th when he had class an hour after me (MWF he was gone by my wakeup), if he was awake already he would be consistently treated to the sight of my eyes popping open, hand shooting for the remote, and the power button being hit all in the time between the click of power on and first noise of TV program. We timed it once, it was less than 2 seconds.

By: JaneM

JaneM — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:31:56 +0000

I want an alarm clock that wiould wake me to the strains of ‘I Got You Babe’. The fear of it being GD would get me up in a hurry!

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:54:02 +0000

I simply can’t wake up between 7 am and 9 am. If I try I’m a mess. If the alarm goes off before 6:59 I jump out of bed. If it goes off at 7 I’ll hit the snooze for 2 hours if I can. I despise mornings. The guy who invented snooze alarms must have been a distant relative of mine.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:57:17 +0000

I always wake up one minute before my alarm goes off. My wife’s is set for 15 minutes later: hers goes off and she hits the snooze. 8 minutes into that 9-minute interval, I deploy the dogs on her. Ever been licked awake by a Rottweiler? Heh-heh-heh.

By: Ailsa

Ailsa — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:48:38 +0000

Now that I think about it, I used the same trick a few years later when I had to be at work at 5am. I would blast “Every Morning” by Sugar Ray.

It never bothered my husband because he didn’t sleep over when I had to work in the morning. I’m sure my neighbors hated me, but they never said anything. Maybe it wasn’t as offensive (to me)because I liked the song?

By: Ailsa

Ailsa — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:44:47 +0000

When I was in college my husband’s alarm clock had a tape deck. His alarm was an old Circle Jerks tape–played at full volume, of course. I used to wake up to the click of the tape deck engaging, and I would have about 3-5 seconds of leader tape to get my head under the pillow and start shaking him to get up and turn the alarm clock off.

I’m pretty sure I would have beaten him if he used the snooze function.

This went on for three months while I lived in his apartment before getting my own. It was at least a year before I stoped twitching when the tape deck engaged, and to this day I flinch at loud noises!

By: Diana

Diana — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:03:09 +0000

I am one of those who uses multiple alarms…first alarm is the clock radio, the second I set to beep 15 minutes later. Then my phone is set to ring the most annoying, chipper “Good morning…” song possible. Possibly the least efficient wake up routine ever, apart from that of Mr. Bean!

By: Calli Arcale

Calli Arcale — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:39:53 +0000

I hate the nine-minute restriction, and greatly prefer shorter snoozes. I used to have one that went off in five-minute increments, and I could’ve sworn it came that way — but maybe I’m just misremembering.

9 minutes is just too long for me. Five minutes is about right for getting past that awkward woke-up-in-the-middle-of-a-dream state. At nine minutes, I am at risk of falling into a new dream, creating a vicious snooze cycle.

Worst of all, though, with 9 minute snoozes, I can only get the satisfaction of hitting that damn button a couple of times before I’ve overslept significantly. Grrrr….