US EditionWhen you snooze, you might lose hours of sleep each month. Here’s how to stop
- A team from Mass General Brigham examined sleep patterns from more than 21,000 individuals to investigate the use of snooze alarms in 2025.
- The study revealed that over 55 percent of recorded sleep periods conclude with users pressing the snooze button, which interferes with critical phases of restorative sleep.
- Repeatedly hitting snooze causes light sleep cycles that prevent restorative sleep, resulting in grogginess and disorientation upon waking.
- Lead author Rebecca Robbins noted that in a global study, over 50% of people concluded their sleep by hitting the snooze button, spending an average of about eleven minutes snoozing each morning before fully waking up.
- The findings suggest limiting snooze use and maintaining consistent sleep routines improve waking effectiveness and overall sleep quality.
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Repeatedly Hitting Snooze Can Really Mess With Your Brain, Here's How To Stop Doing It
man-hitting-snooze-alarm-on-clock A new study explains how hitting the snooze alarm repeatedly in the morning can negatively affect your brain and can actually cost you sleep in the long run. Unfortunately, this habit is a common one as more than 55 percent of sleep sessions recorded for the study ended with the subject hitting the snooze alarm. For the study, researchers at Mass General Brigham analyzed sleep data from over 21,000 people over a…
Hitting Snooze Is Bad For You, Here's How To Stop Doing It
iStockphoto A new study explains how hitting the snooze alarm repeatedly in the morning can negatively affect your brain and can actually cost you sleep in the long run. Unfortunately, this habit is a common one as more than 55 percent of sleep sessions recorded for the study ended with the subject hitting the snooze alarm. For the study, researchers at Mass General Brigham analyzed sleep data from over 21,000 people over a combined 3 million ni…
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