Should you use the Snooze Button?

The snooze button-man’s one of the best inventions until 9 minutes later when the dreaded alarm strikes again!!! Except now you feel even more tired so you snooze again. Are those extra minutes really helping at all??? Or is it a beginning of a never ending cycle that ends you up in getting even more tired? In an unimaginable world without alarm clocks our body would simply wake up naturally. Seems crazy right? But our body has many chemical mechanisms not only to produce sleep but also to wake up as well.

The body begins preparing in this arrow before you naturally wake up. The body temperature rises, sleep becomes light and hormones are released which gives energy to start your day!!

But the problem with your alarms is they often interrupt your sleep cycle 

Particularly if you don’t have a regular sleep it means that your body isn’t ready and  you feel tired and groggy and this state is termed as SLEEP INERTIA.

The snooze button can do more damage than good. As we fall back asleep the sleep cycle begins again and we enter into deeper sleep stage.

As a result second alarm makes you feel even more tired and so continues vicious cycle. So alternately set alarm later and go to bed earlier.

So by breaking up those last 30 minutes of sleep you are more likely to feel tired, so try adopting more regular sleep schedule.

·       Wake up at same time every day even during weekends and after a few weeks your body should adapt to this

·       Try to reduce snooze temptations, as the saying goes

YOU SNOOZE YOU LOSE!!!

#Knowing #9D