“Snooze” functionality is incredibly stupid and ought to be removed entirely from all clocks and software with alarm clocks:
It’s been proven in several studies that you gain absolutely nothing from snoozing a couple minutes or even hours after having been woken the first time (assuming you’ve slept a full 6-8 hours in one go).
In fact, it’s almost guaranteed to make you feel even worse and more tired than if you were to ignore your tiredness upon first waking and just get up instead of snoozing.
Doesn’t matter how long you snooze or how many times you press the snooze button, minutes of time you get to snooze before the next alarm -It will never feel like enough because it actually doesn’t get you more rested.
It’s (sleep) science:
The body will either not enter a full sleep cycle at all or, at worst, it will wake you again midway through a sleep cycle.
Waking midway through a sleep cycle makes you groggy and tired when you finally get up, and it’s also the same phenomenon that’s making you want to snooze the first time after waking.
-Go to bed earlier and get up without snoozing. Or have your Watch charge at night and get some old alarm clock with a big snooze button and go back to dreaming about how “just five minutes more” will make you feel less tired.
