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May. 11th, 2013
I'm not a fan of the snooze alarm.
May. 11th, 2013 08:20 pmIt occurs to me that trading thirty minutes of sleep for thirty minutes of disrupted sleep is a pretty bad exchange. And who are you kidding? If you set your alarm 30 minutes early, but you don't really *need* to get up at that time, do you honestly expect you'll get up half an hour earlier than you actually need to?
I went and googled about this, and it turns out that the snooze alarm is even worse than I thought. At least, according to Google. Apparently, it sends you back into deep sleep, and what's the point of that? Ever since I worked this out, I've lived by the simple rule: set the clock when you're willing to get up, then get up. If you realize you set it an hour too early, cut your losses and reset it then and there for a new time, don't do that silly snooze thing.
I went and googled about this, and it turns out that the snooze alarm is even worse than I thought. At least, according to Google. Apparently, it sends you back into deep sleep, and what's the point of that? Ever since I worked this out, I've lived by the simple rule: set the clock when you're willing to get up, then get up. If you realize you set it an hour too early, cut your losses and reset it then and there for a new time, don't do that silly snooze thing.