This may not seem like a topic for a health thread, but it's come to my attention (reading a book on neurology) that my apparent "need" to hit the snooze-button 5+ times every morning is likely an actual real life addiction to my own endogenous opiates. I'm my own heroine dealer! I get a rush of happiness everytime I turn off that darn alarm and put my head back on the pillow. I know it's an addiction because I even do it on the weekends--I purposefully leave my alarm on so that I can have the "good" feeling of turning it off and going back to sleep.

I've been told that the only way to stop my 'habit' is to disable my snooze and/or put my alarm in another room so that I have to get up to turn it off. I DID try to put my alarm in another room last night, but I still hit snooze 2x this morning. Better than my typical 5, though.

Anyone else addicted? Anyone know how to disable a snooze button?

wow, that sounds just like me. I always set my alarm early and then when I wake up I think about how much more I can sleep in. If the number is reasonable I slam the snooze and get ready for bliss.

I am to the point where I need a big adrenaline rush, usually triggered by feeling the need to rush to get ready, for me to get out of bed. It is pretty bad.

There's a fairly recent thread on this here...

http://www.veggieboards.com/boards/showthread.php?t=43813&highlight=snooze+alarm

There's a fairly recent thread on this here...

http://www.veggieboards.com/boards/showthread.php?t=43813&highlight=snooze+alarm

I think this thread is mostly about being tired and not wanting to get up. I'm pretty sure my problem is different. I actually hit the button, not because I'm tired, but because I get a rush from going back to bed! (Again, I do this on the weekends, when there's no reason to set my alarm as early as I do).

I did that in high school. I would set my alarm for an hour before I actually needed to get up and hit snooze just because I liked the feeling of falling back asleep.

Now once I'm up I'm up and I rarely sleep until the alarm goes off. :(

I am to the point where I need a big adrenaline rush, usually triggered by feeling the need to rush to get ready, for me to get out of bed. It is pretty bad.

Oh yeah...I am also an adrenaline junkie when you put it that way. :-/ And it's not always when it's time to get out of bed...I need that adrenaline rush anytime I have to be somewhere to do something important, regardless of the time of day. I have been told that this is part of the "P" in my ENFP personality type.
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i am the worst in the morning---i am not a morning person--my alarm clock is set ahead--and so are all my clocks really--i hit the snooze at least twice--lol

peace and love

jenn

twice? i can hit it 9, 10 times easy... I used to set my alarm TWO HOURS before I had to get up just so I could have that feeling of "I can still sleep longer" as many times as possible before needing to get up. :sleep:

If you go to sleep again after hitting the snooze button, you are NOT getting enough sleep, period. Going to bed earlier should at least help.

twice? i can hit it 9, 10 times easy... I used to set my alarm TWO HOURS before I had to get up just so I could have that feeling of "I can still sleep longer" as many times as possible before needing to get up. :sleep:

OMG--i do this--set it for like 4--when i have to get up at 6---so that i have time to sleep longer and wake up--before i wake up.

peace and love'

jenn

Wow- this is some addiction you guys have!

My ex used to do this, until I finally convinced him he would be less tired if he just set the alarm for the time he actually needed to get up, because he would not be wasting precious seconds being awake to turn off the snooze.

It also pissed me off, because I can rarely fall back asleep if I know I will be woken up again in 7 mins.

Y'all should form a support group or something!

I absolutely loath snooze buttons. I don't understand the concept at ALL! Maybe it's cause my Mom told me it was a lack of self-discipline that made people hit that thing over and over...

As synergy said, you're wasting precious sleep time each time you're awakened by the alarm. I'd rather sleep deeply and soundly until the moment I need to be up.

What can I say? I'm evil. I have disable the snooze button on roommates, siblings and my ex's alarm clocks... usually I think they just thought they broke - and you know what? They all got used to getting up without the dang thing pretty quickly...

Mollygoat's right, if you're still tiired when the alarm goes off, you need to get to bed earlier. Or many studies show that morning tiredness is a sign of depression too...

At any rate, I am just mighty glad none of you live in my house - your snooze buttons would meet the same mysterious fate as many before have...

What can I say? I'm evil. I have disable the snooze button on roommates, siblings and my ex's alarm clocks... usually I think they just thought they broke - and you know what? They all got used to getting up without the dang thing pretty quickly...

I had a snooze button break on me once. Instead of getting used to no snooze, I changed my habit to reset my alarm ahead 5-10 minutes. So I was still snoozing, but it took a little more coordination.

I think there was a project at MIT to help this problem. They created an alarm clock that had four wheels on it. The clock could be upside or right side up and the wheels would touch the ground. When you hit snooze the clock starts to move to a random location in the room. It can fall of desks and still be ok. The idea is when you wake up next time you have to go and find it.

EDIT: I found the clock. My description is a little off, but see for yourself

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~nanda/projects/clocky.html
http://www.clocky.net/

it is called clocky

I have such a hard time falling asleep at night that I do enjoy falling back to sleep again several times each morning.

I can only speak for myself, but I do not have the problem of not getting enough sleep. That's not why I drift in and out in the morning. Some people get sleepy at night and then go to bed- I don't. I force myself to go to sleep, but I am fully awake and alert until I force my eyes shut and go to bed. I get 8 or more hours of sleep every night. I simply enjoy being able to stay in a warm cozy bed in a state of semi-consciousness (and sometimes lucid dreaming) as long as possible. The snooze button facilitates my enjoyment of that.

I wouldn't *want* to pop out of bed immediately at the tone of my alarm- if I wanted to, I would. I work over 80 hours a week and between one thing and another I am busy and have little time to myself. Morning sleepy-time is my "me time" and it's my favorite part of the day in some ways. So, TNS, stay away from my alarm clock! :sleep: :p

I did the snooze button thing for a long time. Then I stopped and started setting the clock for when I actually wanted to get up. In a few weeks I would actually wake up about 5 minutes before the alarm went off, with rare exception, feeling far more rested and refreshed.

I agree with those above who say if you feel tired when you get up, you're not getting enough sleep.

I'm a snoozer. I still hit snooze several times when the alarm is across the room. I'll set 2 or 3 alarms for each morning. The actual alarm clock is a few feet from my bed, so I have to actually lunge forward to turn it off. I also use my cell phone as a backup alarm (I'm ALWAYS sleepy when waking), and I reset that several times each morning because it doesn't have a snooze button. On the nights I know I'm gonna have a hard time getting up I set a third alarm on my palm pilot, and that's another one I have to manually re-set. So, some mornings I run 3 snoozes at a time, each about 3 minutes apart. It's crazy.

When I had a loft bed in college I had the alarm clock on my desk across the room, and I would actually jump out of my bed, hit snooze, and then climb back up the ladder to get back in bed, for at least a half hour every day, and ocassionally 2 or more hours.

So yeah, I'm really an addict. I didn't know it was something you could be addicted to. I just know I can't seem to be able to stop it.

Hmmm. I never thought of it as an "addiction". I always thought of it as just being lazy in the mornings. I have been doing this practically my whole life! I never get up with the first alarm. I hit that snooze 4 or 5 times before getting up. My husband has adjusted to it. As a matter I set my alarm clock 40 minutes ahead, so by time I finish hitting the snooze I'm up at the time I want to be.....if that makes any sense.:rolleyes: My friend tells me I loose sleep doing this, which is true, but this is the only way I can do it and get to work on time. Thank God for summer breaks!! No alarm at all!

The snooze button is my enemy. I am sleep deprived because of it. My SO is the snooze king. The fact that he works morning shifts and I work evenings makes it worse cause I"m just getting into my deep sleep when his alarm starts going off. Unlike him I'm not able to turn over and go right back to sleep...Needless to say by the time he's up and getting ready for work I'm wide awake :( Thankfully he doesn't set the alarm on weekends so I do get to sleep in :) til 10ish :)

I always set my alarm for at least 20 minutes before I actually need to get up, NOT because I enjoy hitting snooze (I don't!) but because I can't help myself. I hate mornings and am totally incapable of getting up as soon as the alarm goes off, even when I have gotten enough sleep. So I set the alarm earlier than needed to compensate for this....and on my days off I do not set my alarm at all. I just sleeep as long as I want :)

i'm worse. i sleep through alarms. i had 2 alarms, music timed, 2 lamps set to turn on, and a watch alarm. i slept through them all.

... I set my alarm clock 40 minutes ahead, so by time I finish hitting the snooze I'm up at the time I want to be.....if that makes any sense.:rolleyes:


Ditto!! Only mine is about 30 minutes ahead (though by the time I get adjusted to that, I'll set it ahead to 40... then I'll throw a wrench into that and set it to the proper time and gradually set it ahead and ahead again :lol:)

I have to wake up gradually. If I'm made to jump out of bed right away, I start stumbling around and walking into walls (hard. Last night I almost hurt myself). I hit the snooze two or three times and each time I sleep less deeply so I'm awake enough to get out of bed when I need to. If it's a weekend I wake up several times and go back to sleep without using the snooze. I usually don't get out of bed until my bladder makes me, and even then sometimes I go to the bathroom and then go back to sleep.

This makes me sound like I have a real problem but it's just the way my brain is wired. I just can't jump out of bed. The snooze button is my best friend. I know what the OP means about the good feeling of knowing you still have time to sleep. It's so much nicer than going from a restful sleep to a busy day with no in-between phase.

I always push the snooze a couple times every morning. I feel like I get to enjoy sleeping rather than just passing it by. stupid, I know.

MollyGoat - I really don't agree with your most recent post. Sleeping more would seem to help the problem, but when I go to bed earlier it just makes me sleepier in the morning. I am probably MORE prone to push snooze if I go to bed earlier.

I always push the snooze a couple times every morning. I feel like I get to enjoy sleeping rather than just passing it by. stupid, I know.

MollyGoat - I really don't agree with your most recent post. Sleeping more would seem to help the problem, but when I go to bed earlier it just makes me sleepier in the morning. I am probably MORE prone to push snooze if I go to bed earlier.

Not stupid at all! It's like you're enjoying your sleep while you're awake. But it's an addiction, I swear! (At least, according to that book I read.)

Anyway, I'd wager the reason that when you go to bed earlier it's more difficult for you to wake in the morning is because your sleep cycle is just 'off' a bit. At different points of your cycle, it's easier to wake (which is why they recommend 20 min "power" naps but not 45 min naps, even if you have the time---you'll be more tired after allowing yourself deeper sleep than if you just rest your eyes a bit).

However, that being said, if you're tired when you wake up, you're not getting enough sleep. After consistently getting enough sleep (and maybe 'over-sleeping,' to make-up for your sleep deficit, which is a real thing!) you shouldn't be tired anylonger when waking after a full night's sleep. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/03/030314071202.htm

Now, you may still be addicted to those brain-opiates, but that's another problem. :)