Why Snoozing Your Alarm Is Terrible

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A sleep scientist reveals the first mistake we make when we wake up in the morning.

Daniel Barone: When you wake up and then hit the snooze button and go back to sleep, it feels good because serotonin gets released. And it feels nice to fall back asleep.

The problem though is that when you wake up 15 minutes later or 10 minutes later, your brain is essentially confused.

I’m Dr. Daniel Barone, a neurologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital and assistant professor of neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Waking up before the alarm can be a sign that you’re actually getting enough sleep and the body is preparing itself for the day.

Sometimes waking up hours before the alarm — that can be associated with things like depression. People who have clinical depression, they sometimes wake up earlier in the morning than they like to.

So a lot of times, people will snooze when they wake up. They’ll say, “Okay, I’m going to set my alarm for 7 o’clock and then I’m going to snooze to 7:30.”

Many people do that. The problem with that though is waking up and falling asleep is not like an on-off switch. It’s not “we fall asleep immediately and then we wake up immediately.”

The process of falling asleep and waking up is a — it’s a process. It can take a couple of hours in some cases for the brain to neurochemically prepare itself to wake up.

It’s not bad for you but it just — you know, it screws your brain up a little bit. You may experience it yourself. You may feel like, “Oh god, I’m still out of it” or “I feel worse than I did before.”

“Should I be asleep or should I be awake? This is not really what I planned to do.”

So what I always recommend to people is just set the alarm for the latest you can wake up and just have it — that just be the one time you wake up.

Dr. Daniel Barone is the author of "Let's Talk About Sleep."

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37 Comments

  1. Crooked mouth Campbell3 May 2018 at 23:20

    I put my alarm on the other side of the room, so I have to get up to tern it off. And while I am awake and out of bed, I think to myself, ‘you might as well be up’ so yeah...

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  2. BigMoney BigMad3 May 2018 at 23:20

    pressing snooze on the alarm thing doesn't make me feel good at all fuck you mean rn

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  3. Done Account3 May 2018 at 23:20

    That's why my alarm is a Windows XP Earrape.

    Role play:
    *snores*


    EARRAPE APPEARS
    AH!!! MY EAARS AAHHHH!! STAHP IT STOP IT AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  4. - TimeLapse-[Critical Ops]3 May 2018 at 23:20

    Why breathing air is terrible next

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  5. CptMikeTango3 May 2018 at 23:20

    It's not bad for me? Okay, i prefer having a confused brain

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  6. *ARE YOU WATCHING* *CHANG'E*3 May 2018 at 23:20

    What Irony is this?

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  7. Hexiryy3 May 2018 at 23:20

    I only wake up with 1 alarm.

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  8. Donat Bytyqi3 May 2018 at 23:20

    Water is wet

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  9. Lasse Albrecht3 May 2018 at 23:20

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  10. Indy Maat3 May 2018 at 23:20

    Okay Tech Insider, get your facts straight: U say it's terrible, and the professor says: 1:07

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  11. whatupmygoon3 May 2018 at 23:20

    He looks like he needs to start snoozing his alarm...

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  12. Antonio j3 May 2018 at 23:20

    Oh nooo, I went asleep for 0.000000000001 nano second and I have cancer and crippling depression pls sand halp

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  13. Clorox Bleach3 May 2018 at 23:20

    Set the alarm ringtone in mans not hot i do it and i always wake up super fast

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  14. Orbit3 May 2018 at 23:20

    I'm the only one waiting for "why you should be tired of " why you should or shouldn't " videos from tech insider?

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  15. Soundafek3 May 2018 at 23:20

    I'm not a snoozer never have been, i wake up each morning ready to enforce the day..

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  16. 69 Solo3 May 2018 at 23:20

    I love it when I don't forget to pur an alarm on the phone. I hate it when it goes on in the morning.

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  17. Florida Boy5613 May 2018 at 23:20

    This information was as useless as having two assholes

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  18. Todd Medium Wellington III3 May 2018 at 23:20

    a set my alarm up in the kitchen so that forces me to get up and start my coffee before taking a shower.

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  19. Nurul Alya3 May 2018 at 23:20

    I'd turn the alarm off instead snoozed it

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  20. Rick Ace3 May 2018 at 23:20

    I will wake up as many times as I damn well please. Don't you and your college education with medical science tell me how to live my life.

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  21. Juliana VandenBroeke3 May 2018 at 23:20

    I'll take my chances

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  22. Catandthefunk3 May 2018 at 23:20

    That doctor looks tired. He needs to get some more rest. Doctors orders 😇

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  23. Aaron Monroe3 May 2018 at 23:20

    Fuck what this guy or any guy says, I'll snooze button my mornings until they put me in the casket.

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  24. Threeonethree3 May 2018 at 23:20

    Video summarised in a sentence “It’s not bad for you but it screws your brain up a little bit.”

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  25. Toshi Ezarik3 May 2018 at 23:20

    I use like 5 alarms

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  26. Toshi Ezarik3 May 2018 at 23:20

    So I guess I have clinical depression because I wake up naturally early

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  27. John Quigg3 May 2018 at 23:20

    “It’s not ‘we fall asleep immediately and we wake up immediately.’”
    Being an insomniac, I CAN RELATE

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  28. Karen Truong3 May 2018 at 23:20

    I just listen to the terrible noise of my alarm clock cause I’m lazy

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  29. Khizar Ansari3 May 2018 at 23:20

    Tech insider..

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  30. Mega Bombers!3 May 2018 at 23:20

    I just keep the alarm across the room ... Where it is still audible clearly ...😉

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  31. DESTROYER OF DIEP3 May 2018 at 23:20

    I just got notified for this

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  32. McDonnell Douglas MD-113 May 2018 at 23:20

    I always snooze my alarm.

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  33. zaQba3 May 2018 at 23:20

    Well, since it's not bad for us, so screw it, I'm doing it anyway.

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  34. Cha-J Jeannette3 May 2018 at 23:20

    i definitely like his concept

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  35. Kevin Fitzgerald3 May 2018 at 23:20

    I have every intention of doing thzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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  36. Zachary Chandra3 May 2018 at 23:20

    Just press dismiss.

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  37. Carl Carasco3 May 2018 at 23:20

    I dont have depression but i wake up 3 am.

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