The snooze bar

[Pupik]

1. How many times do you press the snooze bar before actually waking up?

2. Snooze bar: Good or bad?

3. Why does the interval last exactly 9 minutes?

 

[Mark T]

1. How many times do you press the snooze bar before actually waking up?

2. Snooze bar: Good or bad?

3. Why does the interval last exactly 9 minutes?

1) I have an alarm set for 7.30, then I hit snooze for an hour or so till 8.30, then I'm up and getting ready.

2) Very good, it eases the waking process.

3) My alarm clock has a setting where you can change the interval. I think mine is set to 15 mins.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

1. Two or Three times.

2. Bad. It encourages you to lie in bed like the lazy sloth that you are.

3. It doesn't last 9 minutes. The one on my alarm clock is 4 minutes. On my mobile it's 10 minutes.

 

[DQuaN]

I have an alarm set for 7.30, then I hit snooze for an hour or so till 8.30, then I'm up and getting ready.

I couldn't do that. I see that as an hour of sleep time lost. I try to sleep solidly untill I have to get up. I find it easier that way, by maximising the amount of sleep I get.

 

[Green Gloves]

1. Once or twice

2. Bad. Some doctors say that a contant switch between the stage of light sleep and waking makes you even more tired. Therefore it's an unhealthy habit, but I digress.

3. My cell phone allows me to set the interval. I set it to five minutes.

 

[Famine]

"It was at that point in my life I realised... they should make an alarm clock which sounds like a baby barfing. There IS no snooze..."

(Bill Engvall)

 

[Mark T]

I find it impossible to just wake up at a set time and then start getting ready. I have to have at least 15-20 mins to prepare myself.

 

[Omnis]

i wake up to the radio, but when i do have the buzzer, i always just sleep with the buzzer on. it like becomes a rythm and stuff in my head....and doesn't really wake me up.

 

[DJM PRODUCTIONS]

i wake up to the radio, but when i do have the buzzer, i always just sleep with the buzzer on. it like becomes a rythm and stuff in my head....and doesn't really wake me up.

I have the same problem. I've become so used to the buzzing noise, it doesn't wake me up. I can sleep through the buzzing noise for hours. (with the alarm clock right next to my head) But if somthing else even makes a little noise, it will wake me right up. I'll have to try setting it to the radio instead of a buzzer.

 

[full_wick]

I don't hit the snooze bar. My wife gets up before me (I sleep right through the alarm) and when she gets me up, she makes sure I get up. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a bad way, depending on her mood, and in any case, not in ways I'm likely to sleep through.

 

[Ruffest]

I find getting out of bed easier in the summer than in the winter... but then I do have the times where I fling myself out of bed and shake my head around till I'm wide awake - I find that the best thing to combat that snooze button on the phone...

 

[Kelly]

I'm terrible with the snooze button, at least 3 presses before I get up... even more if it's been a late night

The other half sleeps through it, but funnily enough it's on my side of the bed

 

[VIPFREAK]

1. How many times do you press the snooze bar before actually waking up?

Since I use my cell phone for my alarm clock I can vary what sounds I hear so I can't get use to one particular sound. So, I guess about 2 times?

2. Snooze bar: Good or bad?

Good but I have a non traditional alarm because of the above.

3. Why does the interval last exactly 9 minutes?

Since I have a total of 5 alarms I can set then that means I can control when they go off because they won't come back on (I think).

So with that said I kinda know how long it takes for me to actually hear the alarm (that's the first key) Then it's a matter of fear, since I know I have 5 alarms if I hear all 5 of them then that last one is going to be the one that gets me up, although this depends on the urgency of the event that I have to go to.

I usually set it for 2 hours before the event about 15min in between each alarm so that by the time I'm ready to leave I have 30min for travel time. Hope that made sense.

If it REALLY REALLY important say like I have to be at work at 8:30 on a sat. Then I'll put the cell phone litterally in my pillow and have it next to my ear, litterally. I'm trying to get brain cancer as fast as possible.

 

[Famine]

I'm terrible with the snooze button, at least 3 presses before I get up... even more if it's been a late night

The other half sleeps through it, but funnily enough it's on my side of the bed

It's a Northern man thing. I've just rearranged the bedroom so that, not only do I not have the alarm on my side, but I've got a WALL on my side...

 

[PS]

1. How many times do you press the snooze bar before actually waking up?

2. Snooze bar: Good or bad?

3. Why does the interval last exactly 9 minutes?


1. 3 times.

2. Um...I like it, but I guess it's bad.

3. I have no idea. Mine does too.

 

[daan]

Once only

Good

mines 8 minutes

 

[Delirious]

i never use snooze bar, i use my cd clock radio for those needs

i can also adjust the snooze if i do decide to use it, but a need has not ever came up to where i needed to use it

 

[Zrow]

1. 3-4 times

2. Bad - though if it didn't exist, I'd just turn the thing off, and I guess I'd be in worse shape.

3. Maybe it's nine minutes so you're running a bit early when you get up after a few times of hitting it.

 

[Sage]

I don't use the snooze bar at all – my clock and furniture are situated to avoid that (there's a clothes drawer on my right side, so I have to get out of the left side of the bed and walk around it to turn off the alarm). I see that as wasted time – I might as well have been sleeping during that time.

 

[boombexus]

1. How many times do you press the snooze bar before actually waking up?

2. Snooze bar: Good or bad?

3. Why does the interval last exactly 9 minutes?

I usually hit the snooze two to three times, on both of my alarms. I have one that is loud enough to wake the dead and it's placed so that I actually have to get out of bed to hit snooze. This makes me want to hit snooze less as it's a pain getting out of bed every time. But, that's the point.
My other alarm is my cell phone, it's mainly used as a back up in case of a power outage or for some odd reason my primary alarm doesn't go off.

It's tough getting up at 03:30am.

Snooze bars are good. Sometimes you just need those extra few minutes. I never really fall back asleep after hitting snooze, and in the snooze period I'm usually mulling over what I have to do at work. So, in a way, snoozing gets my day planned and gets me a few extra minutes to relax.

My snooze bar is heat sensitive, that has been both good, and bad. Hence me moving my alarm to the other side of the room.

Don't know why snooze only lasts 9 minutes, mine is that way too. I vaguely remember that there is an actual reason behind it being 9 minutes, but I'll be damed if I can remember why.

 

[VT]

I normally hit the snooze bar (most of the time it is quite violently) about three or four times before I either a) turn the alarm completely off or b) actually wake up.

My snooze is set for 15 minutes with no option to change it.

 

[xcsti]

1) I don't think I've ever used the snooze. I'm either already up or almost completely wake. The only times I sleep later than my alarm are the days when I forget to shut it off.
2)Good, it's better than not getting up at all.
3)No clue

 

[DJM PRODUCTIONS]

Most snooze buttons are set for 9 minutes because that gives the average person just enough time to relax, but not enough to fall back into a deep sleep.


Edit: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a991126.html

 

[Blackbird.]

1. How many times do you press the snooze bar before actually waking up?

2. Snooze bar: Good or bad?

3. Why does the interval last exactly 9 minutes?

1. Two times

2. Yes, big button; hard to miss so you can shut off annoying sound quickly; But it encourages pressing it more often

3. 5 Minutes for mine

 

[StevieMo]

Many, many times. I have it across the room from me and I still manage to hit it in my sleep. I pull some crazy acrobatics to turn that thing off sometimes. Even with all 3 of my alarms set it usually takes me a good hour before I stop hitting the snooze.

 

[Purple Platypus]

I don't use the snooze. I use the radio alarm, and stay in bed through about 2 songs so I get that extra 7 or so minutes of sitting in bed.

Bad. It's a big button, so it's the one you hit when you try to turn the alarm off. I've accidently hit the snooze while trying to turn the alarm off, and it goes off in the middle of breakfast. Since the bedroom's upstairs and breakfast's downstairs, it makes things bad.

I've got no idea how to mess with my snooze button...

 

[Event]

1)I have my alarm set for 6:15. I hit snooze a lot. I don't get up until 6:55. I'm out to door to school by 7. I like my alarm clock, I don't have to search for the bar. I slam down the entire thing and it snoozes.

2)Good.

3)I dunno.

One thing that I highly suggest is set your alarm clock for 5 minutes fast. When you first wake up, you're too groggy to realize what time it really is. That 5 minutes is a lot. My dad sets his to be 20 minutes fast. It really works!

 

[inferno]

1) Once.

2) Good, because i cant get up the forst time it goes off. If I turn it off I'll lay back down and never wake up. If I ignore it I'll eventualy just go back to sleep and sleep through it indefinitely. Actualy i swear it turns itself off after sounding for 10-15 minutes, because i've sleped through it going off one time and when I woke up the alarm was off.

3) Well this thread sort of raised the question for me, but how about this. lets say it takes the alarm one minute to bring you to conciousness. you hit the snooze, and nine minutes later (ten minutes after the time it was set for) it goes off again. Stupidly simple I know, but hey it works.

 

[zoxxy]

2. Yes, big button; hard to miss so you can shut off annoying sound quickly; But it encourages pressing it more often

Woa, mine is like 0,5 cm2 I'd like a huge red button, so wherever you wave you arm it will hit, and snooze for the next 24h

 

[Spock]

1:I Dont need the Snooze button. My Alarm has 2 alarms. I Set the first for 6:30am and the 2nd for 6:34am. And the snooze button

2: indefferentent

3: Dont Know, Mines configurable